Posted AT 12:54 AM EST on 07/10/08
Rogers braced to weather the storm
GRANT ROBERTSON
From Tuesday's globe and Mail
TORONTO Ted Rogers says he began warning his top executives 18 months ago, not long before storm clouds began gathering over the stock market, that “bad times are coming.”
The chief executive officer of
Rogers Communications Inc. told the heads of his wireless, cable and media divisions to start raising capital before the well ran dry, and to pull back on costly acquisitions.
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