Bain was reacting to a swing-state ad describing the bankruptcy and job losses at GST Steel, a Bain-controlled company that collapsed in 2001. Bain argued that it invested more than $100 million into GST Steel, a company it said would've closed almost ...

http://go.bloomberg.com/political-economy/2012-05-17/bain-speaks-up/

... defended his experience in an interview with conservative blogger Ed Morissey, distancing himself from the closing of a steel factory at a Bain-owned company and accusing the president of talking out of both sides of his mouth on private equity.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/romney-responds-to-bain-attacks-says-he-helped-create-123649.html

The case of Dade Behring in Miami, where some 850 jobs were lost while Romney led Bain has been well-documented. But there's a new wrinkle: The company under Bain's leadership sought and received millions of dollars in tax breaks for creating jobs in ...

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/as-mitt-romney-hits-florida-democrats-attack-bains-history-of-profits-and/1230293

Does anyone think a unionista will tell the truth about what went on with a company they spent decades extorting? It is never noted in the Obama ad that GST Steel had troubles long, long before Bain Capital bought the company. In fact that Bain bought ...

http://www.chicagonow.com/publius-forum/2012/05/fail-obama-ad-attacks-romney-for-bain-bought-company-that-laid-people-off%E2%80%A6-but-romney-didnt-work-there-then/

... it had struck a deal to sell Scandinavian installation services provider Bravida to investment group Bain Capital for an undisclosed sum. Triton, which owns Bravida through its Triton Fund III, bought the company from Norway's Telenor in 2006.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/14/bravida-idUSWEA156020120514

This is especially infuriating to me as I worked for a company in the late eighties that had this same thing happen to it. Founded in 1897 and family owned until it was bought by a company like Bain, this firm had over 150 employees, some of whom had ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002680252

JEDDAH – The 2011 boom should not hide the fact that existing retail concepts are maturing and retailers will need to innovate to sustain high growth rates, Bain & Company executives said. Last year's strong growth was attributed partly to the strong ...

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.con&contentid=20120512123915

But as we report in Bain & Company's Global Private Equity Report 2012, the PE industry has seldom, if ever, experienced such choppy cyclical swings in so many variables that influence deal making, fund-raising, exits and returns as it has in the past ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/baininsights/2012/05/10/where-is-private-equity-headed-in-2012/

Consultancy firm Bain & Company in association with FICCI has come out with a report Empowering India focussing on how to improve the competitiveness and streamlining decision making process. The report titled Empowering India – Redesigning Government ...

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/economy/article3401316.ece?homepage=true&ref=wl_home

Throughout his business career, Romney made his fortune from companies he helped destroy. Under his leadership at Bain Capital, companies stopped making things and workers bought fewer things — because they lost their jobs. Romney founded Bain ...

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120509/OPINION03/205090316/1008/opinion01/Labor-Voices-Mitt-Romney-more-job-killer-than-creator

The study, conducted by Bain & Company, forecasts annual global growth of 7 percent to 9 percent, bringing the market to between (EURO)235 billion and (EURO)240 billion by 2014. Luxury goods markets are forecast to expand this year in most of the world ...

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-05/D9UJUKPG0.htm

Based on reader feedback, I want to expand on this, specifically in the context of Bain. There are two major private equity models in existence today. In the first one, a private equity firm invests its own money in a company and recovers that money ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanjay-sanghoee/romney-bain_b_1483682.html?ref=elections-2012

The Facts The Obama campaign pointed us to a series of SEC filings and news accounts showing that three companies within Bain Capital's portfolio sent jobs overseas. Romney served as chief executive of the firm, which specialized in private-equity ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/does-mitt-romney-love-outsourcing/2012/05/03/gIQAJQDH0T_blog.html

But while Bain itself made money from most or all deals, more than one in five of those arrangements ended with the target company in bankruptcy. If the goal is job creation, Bain Capital is probably the wrong president. 2.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/romney-money-corporations_b_1474834.html

With that in mind, I recently met Edward Conard on 57th Street and Madison Avenue, just outside his office at Bain Capital, the private-equity firm he helped build into a multibillion-dollar business by buying, fixing up and selling off companies at a ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/magazine/romneys-former-bain-partner-makes-a-case-for-inequality.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

But my understanding from the definitive book on Romney is that he wasn't the CEO of the companies that outsourced jobs—the ad's clear implication if not the literal text. He ran a firm (Bain Capital) that acquired other companies (often using ...

http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-stump/103052/wh-official-offense-better-defense

Few companies are able to achieve sustainable, profitable growth. According to Chris Zook, the head of Bain & Company's strategy practice, only 9% of businesses in the world earned back their cost of capital, on average, over the last decade.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/drewhansen/2012/04/30/strategy-antidote-complexity-killer-best-companies/?ss=strategies-solutions

A group including Thomas H. Lee Partners LP, Bain Capital LLC, and the buyout units of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) took Warner Chilcott private in 2005 and brought it public again in 2006. Credit Suisse sold its stake ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/warner-chilcott-said-to-consider-options-after-interest.html

By David Yezbak If you have turned on the television lately you have probably heard a lot about a company called Bain Capital. No matter what your political affiliation or beliefs, one thing is certain: Over the past 20 years, private-equity groups, ...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/your-business/2012-04-28/equity-groups-help-businesses-sales

Now Bain Capital (yes, the company that clean-living Mitt Romney used to run) is trying to consolidate an unlikely industry: addiction treatment centers. In February 2006, Bain purchased an outfit called CRC Health Group for $723 million and proceeded ...

http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/26/news/companies/bain-crc-rehab.fortune/index.htm

Lego is both a metaphor and a case study for the argument at the heart of “Repeatability”, a new book by Chris Zook and James Allen, two consultants with Bain & Company. (Mr Zook practises what he preaches, repeatedly publishing books about the need ...

http://www.economist.com/node/21553425

Mitt Romney was not only born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he had the most glittering of golden parachutes from Bain & Co, guaranteeing him a job whether he failed or succeeded and with Bain agreeing in advance to lie about any failure.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/romney-to-bain-bail-me-out_b_1454064.html

Matthew and his family have relocated to Elko, Nevada from Dallas, Texas where he worked for the global business consulting firm Bain & Company. With Bain, Matthew specialized in working with oil & gas companies to improve the efficiency and safety of ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/boart-longyear-appoints-new-zone-manager-in-elko-nevada-2012-04-24

Preparations for a dual-track process flushed out several interested buyers who remain in talks with the company despite there being no formal process. Bain and Lion are the most keenly interested and are trying to secure debt of up to EUR400 million, ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120423-712582.html

By Ben Bain and Jonathan J. Levin on April 23, 2012 Mexico's largest mortgage provider plans to offer home buyers fixed-rate loans for the first time, as the two-decade long inflationary hangover from the country's Tequila Crisis fades.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-23/mexico-sets-first-fixed-rates-with-inflation-receding-mortgages