International Business News - Mountain http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. fell Wednesday after a Stifel Nicolaus analyst downgraded the stock, saying costs are likely to rise and growth in single-cup brewers may not meet expectations. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080903/green-mountain-coffee-shares-drop-on-downgrade.htm Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:09:53 EDT Outdoor clothing and gear company Gander Mountain said Wednesday that it is returning to the catalog business. The company has begun limited national distribution of its 244-page catalog to customers, marking its return to direct marketing after 12 years. Gander said it is the nation's largest retail network of stores for hunting, fishing, camping, boating, marine, and outdoor lifestyle apparel and products. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080827/gander-mountain-returns-to-catalog-business.htm Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:25:50 EDT Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Inc. announced its board of directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 10 cents. The chocolate maker and franchiser said the dividend is payable Sept. 12 to shareholders of record Sept. 2. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/rocky-mountain-chocolate-declares-dividend.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:01:21 EDT Federal regulators have rejected a petition by the state of Nevada against the government's license application for a nuclear waste dump 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080822/nevadas-objection-to-nuke-dump-rejected-for-now.htm Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:06:28 EDT For seminal alt-country band Blue Mountain--torn apart by divorce--breaking up was hard to do. Getting back together, it turned out, was pretty easy. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/112131-music-blue-mountain.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/blue-mountain-returns-with-new-album-midnight.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/blue-mountain-returns-with-new-album-midnight.htm Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:25:02 EDT Developers on Long Island are moving forward with a plan to build a $2 billion resort featuring a 35-story indoor ski mountain. Riverhead Resorts officials on Thursday are giving the town of Riverhead an unrefundable $2 million payment to begin the process of environmental, engineering, energy and other reviews for the project planned at a former Navy site 75 miles east of New York City. The developers say the payment is a sign of their commitment to the project, which is not expected to open until 2013. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080814/ny-indoor-ski-center-developers-seek-permits.htm Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:34:05 EDT Swiss police say an American man and woman have been found dead on a mountain in southern Switzerland. Valais state police spokesman Jean-Marie Bornet says the 53-year-old man and 57-year-old woman were found late Friday at an altitude of about 13,100 feet on the eastern flank of the Matterhorn. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080809/police-say-2-americans-killed-on-swiss-mountain.htm Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:46:28 EDT A mountain lion crept through an open door into a house outside Denver, snatched a Labrador retriever from a bedroom where two people were sleeping and left the dog's dead body outside, wildlife managers said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080806/big-cat-grabs-dog-from-colo-home-as-owners-slept.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:52:18 EDT A mountain lion crept through an open door into a house outside Denver, snatched a Labrador retriever from a bedroom where two people were sleeping and left the dog's dead body outside, wildlife managers said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080805/big-cat-grabs-dog-from-colo-home-as-owners-slept.htm Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:00:09 EDT Shares of Green Mountain Coffee fell Thursday even though the company said its third-quarter profit climbed 72 percent, mainly due to strong growth in the company's Keurig single-cup brewing business, but revenue failed to meet expectations. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/green-mountain-shares-fall-after-3q-report.htm Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:05:44 EDT Data-security provider Iron Mountain Inc. on Thursday slightly raised its forecast for full-year revenue as it reported a 15 percent gain in second-quarter sales. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/iron-mountain-raises-outlook-for-2008-revenue.htm Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:38:17 EDT Iron Mountain Inc., a data-storage and security provider, said Thursday its second-quarter profit fell 8 percent as cost increases erased a 15 percent gain in revenue. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/iron-mountain-2q-profit-falls-8-percent.htm Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:35:46 EDT Calling it a "once in a generation opportunity," the incoming head of Green Mountain Power Corp. said Monday the utility wants to boost its portfolio of renewable energy sources and decrease its reliance on the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080728/new-vermont-utility-chief-looks-to-green-energy.htm Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:54:24 EDT A renowned Italian mountain climber is missing and believed dead after falling into a crevasse on one of the world's deadliest peaks in the western Himalayas, rescuers said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/italian-climber-missing-in-pakistan.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:08:32 EDT Turns out, it's going to cost taxpayers $32 billion more than first thought to open and operate the nation's first nuclear waste dump. The Bush administration's latest calculation--made public Tuesday--is that the facility will cost over $90 billion. It's the first official estimate since 2001, when the figure was $58 billion. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/total-nuke-dump-cost-to-top-90-billion.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:16:58 EDT Police say two competitors died of hypothermia and lack of oxygen during an endurance race up Germany's highest mountain. Six other people were hospitalized. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/2-collapse-die-in-german-mountain-race.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:06:23 EDT A telecommunications company CEO leads the list of the most highly paid chief executives in the U.S.'s Mountain region. Edward Mueller of Qwest Communications was No. 1 in the region that includes Arizona, Colorado and Utah. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/the-most-highly-paid-ceos-in-the-mountain-region.htm Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:25:19 EDT Searchers have found the bodies of three snowboarders missing since early December in a skiing area northeast of Mount Rainier in Washington state. Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says friends of the three took advantage of melting snow and searched Saturday in the area where they disappeared. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/bodies-of-3-missing-snowboarders-found-in-wash.htm Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:20:31 EDT A director at specialty coffee maker Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. sold 5,000 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080619/green-mountain-director-sells-shares.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:00:54 EDT The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx that became the basis for a 2005 movie that won three Academy Awards. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080608/brokeback-mountain-to-become-opera.htm Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:07:31 EDT