November 25, 2002

 

 

  Headlines---

 

Pictures from the Past-2000-Mayhall, Thorne, Lynse

   Clarification: Bankers Leasing, Iowa

     Leasing News List is Up-dated

      The Week's Economic Events

       Classified Ads---Job Wanted/Help Wanted

         How Bad is It? ----Russ Wilder,ATEL

   West Coast dockworkers, shipping companies reach tentative agreement

     Letters---eMail to Leasing News

      Expanding California's Technology Sector---J.Murti

       Jackson and Merrill Assume New Positions at Fifth Third

         Mort: Rams Might Consider Trading Warner

              NFL Football Wrap-up:

               Some Trip, but Others HitStride in Stretch

 

 

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Pictures from the Past

 

-2000-

 

Mayhall, Thorne, Lynse

 

 

 

 

David Ross Mayhall-Pacific Capital Leasing, Andrew Thorne, Thalman

Financial, Curt Lysne, CLP—GE Capital/Colonial Pacific

 

 

 

Clarification: Bankers Leasing, Iowa

 

 (Leasing News identified the offices of Bankers Leasing and its subsidiaries owned

by CitiCapital that closed, Illinois, New York, and in case there is any confusion

to any other similar company, such as this one in Iowa, we print this clarification:)

 

I just want to let you know that there is more than one Bankers Leasing.  We

are located in Iowa, and our name is Bankers Leasing Company. 

 

We are not connected with the Bankers Leasing (I believe it is Bankers Leasing, Inc.)

that you are publishing articles about.

 

  I would like for you to make that clarification clear to your subscribers, as we have been fielding calls from our vendors throughout the country regarding these stories.  These stories are having a negative impact on our business.

 

Please issue a statement/clarification to your readers.  Thanks.

 

 

 

David R. Selden, President

Bankers Leasing Company

(800) 247-8136

dselden@banleaco.com

 

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Leasing News List is Up-dated:

 

Chronological

 

Alpha

 

 

The Week's Economic Events

 

November 25

MONDAY

Existing-Home Sales: October

 

November 26

TUESDAY:

G.D.P.3rd Qtr. revised

New-Home Sales: October

Prices of New Homes: October

Consumer Confidence: November

 

November 27

WEDNESDAY

Personal Income: October

Durable Goods Orders: October.

Beige Book: Weekly Jobless Claims

 

November 28

THURSDAY

Thanksgiving

None

 

November 29

FRIDAY

None

Busiest shopping day

(6th retail single sales day)

 

 

(Note: in comparing October, 2001,

with this year, it was the month

after "September 11"; a better

comparison may be with October,2000.

Editor)

 

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Classified Ads---Job Wanted/Help Wanted

 

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Director, Business Development for international financial institutions. Global vendor programs with minimum sustainable volume of $24M annually. CFO and Treasury contacts with major technology and energy corporations.Email:tkorpolinski@ev1.net

 

Sales: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

10+ yrs in middle market leasing. Seek direct lessor only. Transaction size from $500M to $10.0MM. Client base: printing, food, retail, hvy manufacturing. Email:edm173@sbcglobal.net

 

Sales: Seattle, WA

Sales professional, looking for sales/leasing position to work from home office. Tenacious, aggressive, personable. Strong on the phone. Outstanding PC, cold-calling, and closing skills. Email:bsmith@mybillsmith.com

 

Sales: Phoenix, AZ

Sales professional with 10 years of leasing experience, seeking a direct leasing company. Currently in the IT leasing market with vendor relationships, Small/middle market arena. Email:cycling4fun2002@yahoo.com

 

Sales: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

10+ yrs in middle market leasing. Seek direct lessor only. Transaction size from $500M to $10.0MM. Client base: printing, food, retail, hvy manufacturing. Email:edm173@sbcglobal.net

 

Sales: Mission Viejo, CA

Account Sales Executive with 10 years of leasing experience looking for company to bring existing customer base.

Email:makelly21@hotmail.com

 

Sales: Louisville, KY

I have been in leasing/financing of construction, machine tool, and mfg equipment for 20+ years. Traveled KY, IN, OH and TN.

Email:kyle90@msn.com

 

Sales: Orange County, CA.

Skilled deal-closer at above-average rates. Entrepreneurial. Accomplished lease-structurer specializing in transportation. Exp. in direct/ captive & syndicator environments servicing vendors, brokers, & end-users.

email:originator@sbcglobal.net

 

http://65.209.205.32/LeasingNews/JobPostings.htm

 

Sales:Warminster, Bucks County, PA.

18 yr old, prof. lessor seeks net PVP motivated sls pros. Top funding & backroom capabilities.

email:sbrown@capitalinnovations.com"NAELB"

 

 

Sales: National: 7 offices Medical & IT/ plus. Seeking professionals w/solid book of business & high ethics. Exceptional support & commissions. Expenses paid. 616-459-6800 Email: gsaulter@chaseindustries.com  "UAEL"

 

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How Bad is It?   --Russ Wilder, ATEL

 

I agree with others.  I've been in leasing or equipment financing for over

24 years now and this is the deadest year I have ever seen in terms of new

business originations and this is the third recession/economic slowdown I

have been through.

 

 From conversations with some of the CFO's or Treasurers,

etc. of some of our lessees that I occasionally talk to it is pretty clear

that none of them are acquiring equipment except to replace existing

equipment that is just worn out or uneconomical to keep fixing.

 

Russ Wilder

RWilder@ATEL.com

 

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West Coast dockworkers, shipping companies reach tentative agreement

 

By Justin Pritchard, Associated Press

 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) West Coast dockworkers and shipping companies have reached a tentative contract agreement that could end the drawn-out labor dispute that shut down the coast's major ports for 10 days and prompted the president to intervene.

 

The six-year deal would provide wage and benefit improvements for union members, plus technology and dispute-resolution improvements that the companies needed, said Peter Hurtgen, head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

 

He praised both sides, saying lead negotiators ''demonstrated statesmanlike leadership, which made this agreement possible.''

 

The agreement, reached late Saturday, still must be ratified by a majority of the 10,500 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. A caucus of about 100 union members will meet Dec. 7 to vote on the contract, and the entire rank-and-file will probably vote on it in early January, according to union president Jim Spinosa.

 

The major sticking points in the negotiations had centered on the desire by the Pacific Maritime Association, the industry group, for computerized cargo tracking systems that will make dockside work more efficient, but also cost an estimated 400 jobs. The union, in return, wanted increased compensation and pension benefits.

 

''With this contract we are ushering in a new era of modernization,'' Joseph Miniace, president of the PMA, said Sunday.

 

''Workers can harness technology and make it work for them,'' said AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka, who joined the negotiations. ''They can bridle it, saddle it and ride it to job, pension and economic security.''

 

Hurtgen declined to give details of the agreement but expressed confidence workers would be pleased.

 

''I think once they see the magnitude of the pension increases, the wage increases it would be phenomenal if they were to turn that down,'' he said.

 

Miniace said health care costs are expected to nearly double from $220 million a year to $500 million by the end of the deal. Pensions, he said, will end up costing companies more then $1 billion.

 

Sources familiar with the negotiations said workers can expect raises of 10 to 15 percent over the six years.

 

In Tacoma, Wash., local union Vice President Dick Marzano said workers were glad to have an agreement before the Dec. 27 end to a Taft-Hartley cooling-off period that was imposed by President Bush.

 

''It's a lot better to have an agreement in hand through the collective bargaining process so both sides can feel they've accomplished something,'' he said.

 

The dockworkers' previous contract expired in July.

 

Union member Bernard Bowden, 45, of Antioch, said he felt ''relief and a lot of apprehension'' about the tentative agreement.

 

''Six years? You know how things change,'' said Bowden, who has worked at Oakland's port since 1983. ''It's too long to have a contract.''

 

The shippers' association had locked out dockworkers at the 29 major Pacific ports for 10 days, leading President Bush to invoke the Taft-Hartley law to open the docks Oct. 9 to avoid an economic crisis. The ports handle more than $300 billion in trade each year.

 

The union's top lawyer, Rob Remar, said hard feelings among rank-and-file over use of Taft-Hartley could complicate ratification. ''There's a real bitterness that is going to linger with them for a long time,'' he said.