After surviving ownership by #AOL & recently being sold by #ATT to #Discovery, The venerable #WarnerBros studio is on the auction block again and could just be asset stripped & folded into another mogul's media stash
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/business/warner-bros-hollywood-reaction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v08.PMMK.6LtAcISu6BIp&smid=url-share #GftLink #SharedStory #Hollywood #MediaConglomerates #Movies #NYTimes
In 2024 Jane Goodall Left This Message
‘Hope Isn’t Just Wishful Thinking’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/climate/jane-goodall-interviews.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU8.6Zom.tQ7ncRpY92KO&smid=url-share #GftLink #JaneGoodall #Hope #GiftArtcle #NYTimes
After over 130 yrs of providing food to America, ranging from #Pineapples to #Pears to #Peaches to #PetFoods, modern marketing #mismanagement puts #California cannery #DelMonte into big #Bankruptcy blaming "borrowing" binge that led to billions in 21st century debt.
Current company HQ claims they secured another nearly a billion in #loans to keep operating as they seek a buyer.
Once one of the great west coast companies, "Del Monte Plant No. 1" built in post earthquake #SanFrancisco was heralded as the largest #fruit and #vegetable cannery in the world, employing 2,500 people and producing 200,000 cans of Del Monte brand food per day.
Later, it became a subsidiary of RJ Reynolds tobacco, and owner of #SunKist oranges & #StarKist tuna. In 2006, Del Monte became the second largest pet foods corp by purchasing Meow Mix & Milk Bone brands, but since then, HQ moved to suburban Walnut Creek CA and many of the Del Monte operations & brands have been thinned out and sold off. In 2025 brands still include #Contadina, College Inn #soups, and since 2001, a similar subsidiary 100+ yr old #canning brand called S & W and a more recent foray into burgeoning bubble teas.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/02/del-monte-economy-food-fruit-vegetable-court-bankrupt-bay-area-jobs/?share=muabystysmrmasntycab #GftLink #SharedStory #MercuryNews
This is what we're facing:
"Among many recommendations, Project 2025 lays out plans for criminalizing pornography, disbanding the Commerce and Education departments, rejecting the idea of abortion as health care and shredding climate protections."
Click the link, not the preview, to bypass paywall
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-project-2025.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X04.1Ch1.tiXaR1n_3WgS
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