Saturday, November 22, 2008

Money & Business

Money Matters by Katy Marquardt and Kirk Shinkle

Blockbuster Isn't Dead

March 06, 2008 02:51 PM ET | Katy Marquardt | Permanent Link | Print

Don't count Blockbuster out just yet, says Fortune magazine. The company is taking some dramatic steps to remake itself in the face of fierce competition from Netflix's mail-order movie rentals, video on demand, and Apple's recent rollout of online film rentals. Blockbuster reported today that it more than quadrupled its fourth-quarter net income with the help of "aggressive cost reductions, the repositioning of our subscription programs, and a renewed focus on store merchandising" over the last half of the year, Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes said in a statement.

Tags: sales | Blockbuster | movies

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Katy Marquardt came to U.S. News from Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, where she profiled rising stars in the mutual-fund world and wrote about investing in stocks and racehorses. Katy hails from Abilene, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas-Austin.

Kirk Shinkle is a senior editor at U.S. News. Formerly, he covered business and economics on both coasts for Investor's Business Daily. A native of the Montana-Texas corridor, he currently resides in the wilds of west Brooklyn. His checkered online evolution looks like this: Friendster, still (!). MySpace, no. Facebook, yes. He blogs here, Twitters occasionally, and has yet to Tumblr.

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