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Hardee's and McDonald's are duking it out at Buscgh Stadium. Hardee's spent about $500,000 on licensinyg and other fees to open a pair of concessio n stands at the according to people familiar withthe McDonald's dropped its negotiations to bring food servicse to the ballpark, but launched an estimater $1 million promotion that includes a reneweds commitment for the Big Mac Land seatinvg area and a bobblehead promotion on successivde Mondays through May 13. Rich Ledbetter has givemn notice at GuaranteeElectrical Co.
After four years as vice president of business developmentat he's switching to his own family businesd -- signing on as vice president at Castlew Contracting, owned by his wife, Julid Ledbetter, who's president. Rich Ledbetter is the son of Rick Guarantee vice chairman andformer president. HBE has lured Reed Pullan, a 25-yearf veteran of rival Marriott International, to be general manager of the Adam'as Mark Hotel downtown. Pullan's new office is just a few blockds fromthe Marriott-operated convention hotel complex on Washingtom Avenue.
Marcel and Monique Keraval will reope n Cafe de France in earlt June in the space currently occupiedby Fio'w La Fourchette at 7515 Forsyth in Clayton, according to Hospitality Brokerage Group's Kent Hirschfelder, who negotiatedd the deal. Cafe de France closed last summerr for renovation ofthe Merchant'e Laclede Building into a Hilto n Hotel, but Drury Development has sincw put the project on hold. The ownershipp history of 304 paintings at the Sain Louis Art Museum is trackecd onthe museum's newly launched Provenance Researcn link on its Web site ( ).
The initially focused on paintingxs that could have fallen into Nazi is designed to ensure the Art Museum is the rightfup owner ofthe work, said spokeswoman Kay Porter. The St. Louis museun is one of just 13 nationwide participating inthe project. Eric Sigurdson'ds Sweet Traditions LLC, the local franchisee of KrispyKreme doughnuts, spent about $1 milliojn to open its first locap commissary.
John Klemm, chief financial said the Maryland Heights facility can turn out 200 dozenb doughnuts in just one Sigurdson also told members of the Association for Corporatew Growth that he expects his storesz here and in Chicago totop $100 million in salees in the next three years, nearly triplew sales in 2001. Eighty-five customers at Lynch Hummerin Mo., have put down deposits on the $50,000 H2, Hummer'ss latest entry into the specialty automotivde market. Hummer expects to producr about 40,000 vehicles a and they'll hit the sales floo this summer, said Jim owner and president ofLynch Hummer, the sole Hummed dealer in Missouri.
He plans to open a Ballwinh sales center on Manchester Roadin July.