The ads are expected to focus on the plight of workers who were laid off after their employers were purchased by Bain Capital. Romney founded the venture capital company in 1984 after working for the Bain consulting company, and throughout the campaign ...

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/07/4170531/attack-ads-to-blast-romneys-work.html

In the story, former workers said Bain had mismanaged the acquisition, loading up the company with debt while earning profits for itself and in the end abandoning some of its pension commitments. Bain's business practices have been an issue in the GOP ...

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/06/3356924/bain-capital-tied-to-bankruptcy.html

In your mind's eye, you can already see the attack ads against Romney from Obama's superPAC: interviews with people who were laid off from companies that Bain Capital bought and sold explaining their sorrows, with a caption about how much Bain pocketed ...

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/01/05/santorum-and-the-dignity-of-work/

Business thought this required Hadoop which would have involved a $1 million investment. Bain prescribed pulling together analysts scattered around the company into a team and hiring a skilled leader. The company developed some Large Data analytical ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2012/01/04/big-data-often-isnt-really-says-bain/

Bill Bain, the founder of Bain & Company, one of the nation's premier consulting outfits, had a stunning proposition: he was prepared to entrust an entirely new venture to the striking young man seated before him. From the moment they'd first met, ...

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/02/mitt-romney-201202

By Greg Sargent In Iowa yesterday, the Democratic National Committee held an event featuring testimony from a man who was laid off from a company that was restructured by Bain Capital on Mitt Romney's watch. “I really feel he didn't care about the ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/mitt-romneys-new-antagonists-his-layoff-victims/2012/01/02/gIQAdgPMWP_blog.html

By Matt Woolbright, Special to the Register A former employee of Bain Capital, GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney's former company, said Sunday that Romney's decisions cost him and many others their jobs. Randy Johnson said Sunday that the ...

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2012/01/01/man-says-romney-cost-him-his-job/

MSNBC anchors like Ed Schultz and Andrea Mitchell have started to disclose parent company NBC Universal's ties to Bain Capital, the private investment firm co-founded by GOP candidate Mitt Romney. Bain Capital and NBC Universal are both part owners of ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/30/nbcu-bain-capital-msnbc-anchors-relationship_n_1176059.html?ref=media

By DYLAN BYERS | Starting on last night's Ed Show with Ed Schultz, MSNBC anchors are now disclosing their parent company's ties to Bain Capital, the buyout firm co-founded by Mitt Romney. In July 2008, NBC Universal, Bain Capital and Blackstone Group ...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2011/12/msnbc-now-disclosing-bain-capital-connection-109077.html

Demand for diamonds may grow at double the pace of supply until end-2020 because of an expanding middle class in China and India, Bain & Co said this month. The two nations and the Middle East will account for 40% of global diamond demand by 2015, ...

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=161813

Demand for diamonds may grow at double the pace of supply through 2020 because of an expanding middle class in China and India, Bain & Co. said this month in a report that didn't give price forecasts. The two nations, and the Middle East, will account ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-27/diamonds-set-to-outpace-gold-as-luxury-spending-in-asia-rises-commodities.html

After the cowbell assembly-line worker is laid off because Bain bought his company and restructured, we get Romney hoovering up massive cowbell profits for doing absolutely nothing. (And when the cowbell clapper-attacher tries to collect unemployment ...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/26/1047937/-Slowpoke-flashback:-The-labor-chain

After Harvard, Romney eventually joined Bain & Co., a Boston-based consulting firm, where he quickly emerged as a rising star. He was asked to lead a spinoff, Bain Capital, a private equity firm that provided management consulting and launched and ...

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Romney-Touting-business-skills-in-White-House-bid-2423203.php

"People who know me from my years at Bain Capital, Bain and Company, the Olympics and Massachusetts wouldn't say he was successful because he was a great manager. They'd say I was successful because I was a leader, that I had a vision of how to change ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204464404577114591784420950.html

Bain & Company forecasts 18% growth for watches and jewelry sales in 2011 as consumers are increasingly migrating from unbranded luxury purchases to branded purchases. The firm forecasts 14% growth for brand-owned stores, which is 50% higher than the ...

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11354553/1/5-luxury-goods-stocks-for-santa-claus-rally.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN

Learn More Worldwide demand will grow by 6 per cent a year to 2020 while supply will increase by 2.8 per cent annually, the management consultancy Bain & Company forecasts in a new report. The biggest increase in demand should occur in the higher-carat ...

http://www.thenational.ae/featured-content/channel-page/business/middle-teasers-list/for-wise-investors-diamonds-are-forever

A key difference for Romney, however, is that he invested little of his own money at the founding — Bain Capital was a spin-off of Bain & Company, which put up most of the money for its first fund — and he still enjoys the capital gains tax rates ...

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/12/mitt-romney-still-makes-millions-dollars-year-bain-capital/46358/

While Mr. Romney is often described as a founder of Bain Capital, it originally grew out of another business: the management consulting firm Bain & Company, which spun off the private equity arm in 1984. It was early in the leveraged buyout era, ...

http://www.ocala.com/article/20111218/ZNYT02/112183013

Boston-based consulting giant Bain & Co. finds itself at the top of several prestigious rankings. It is No. 1 on Vault's Consulting 50, and has been named the Best Firm to Work For by Consulting Magazine for nine consecutive years. Today, Bain holds a ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2011/12/15/the-best-companies-to-work-for/

The business of private equity depends on debt for its profitability. A company like Bain Capital raises money from big investors, such as pension funds or university endowments, to form a fund. The firm then goes looking for companies to acquire, ...

http://www.sfexaminer.com/politics/congress/2011/12/romneys-bain-capital-record-shows-mixed-record-bankruptcies

Topping the list this year with a near perfect 4.7 score is Bain & Co. The global management consulting firm with 6000 employees ranked 3rd last year, just behind Facebook and Southwest Airlines. This year, Facebook fell to third and Southwest came in ...

http://www.ere.net/2011/12/14/employees-pick-best-companies-to-work-for/

At one point, he pushed back against colleagues who wanted to flip the business for a quick profit and instead directed them to make an acquisition to bolster it. It was only after Dade had been turned around that Bain and the company's other investors ...

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/romneys-run-puts-spotlight-on-past-job-and-peers/

(IDEX Online News) – Diamond demand, in carats, will grow more than 6 percent annually through 2020, far outpacing the 2.8 percent annual supply growth, says a report from management consultant firm Bain & Co. According to the “2011 Global Diamond ...

http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullNews.asp?id=36189

9 (Bloomberg) -- Diamond prices are poised to rise as demand grows at double the pace of supply through 2020 because of expanding middle class populations in China and India, said Bain & Co. in a report for the Antwerp World Diamond Centre. ...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-09/diamonds-to-rise-as-demand-expands-at-double-supply-bain-says.html

In its recent report Bain & Company has noted demand for diamonds will exceed diamond supply in the decade until 2020, which will not be able to keep balance owing to the lack of new mines, reports say. The growing prosperity in Chinese and Indian ...

http://diamondworld.net/contentview.aspx?item=6538