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Though not all the restaurants are changing street signs to reflect their new marketing strategy, local stores have already started serving pizza in boxes labeled, "The Hut." Companies and restaurants have been adopting new logos, altering store designs and changing names for decades, but in an effort to attract more customers, some get a little ...

All current shareholders of Washington Mutual should send letters to www.wamuequity.org to be received no later than July 6th 2009.

WASHINGTON , /PRNewswire/ -- The Securities Exchange Commission strengthened shareholder rights by approving a rule change prohibiting stock brokers from casting uninstructed shares in director elections at companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

Customers wait in line for an IndyMac Bank branch to open in Pasadena, California on July 14, 2008.

When the deal was struck in September, J.P. Morgan Chase's purchase of most of the collapsed Washington Mutual Bank looked like a master stroke, a $1.88 billion purchase price for operations expected to boost annual earnings more than $2 billion.

It's one of those refrains we hear from candidates all the time, especially candidates coming from the private sector with little or no government experience, that they want to make government operate more like a business.

Larry Strunk, a retired Boeing customer-service rep, put his money into something he "thought was very solvent - Washington Mutual." Now his investment is worth pennies and things are "really tough." Still, at age 66, he isn't planning on going back to work.

Quinn Emanuel, that scourge of banks across America , emerged smiling on Wednesday from the latest round in Washington Mutual Inc.'s knock-down, drag-out fight with JPMorgan Chase.

WASHINGTONIANS like to point out that they are home to the largest building, by volume, in the world, a Boeing hangar in the Puget Sound north of Seattle.

So long, Washington Mutual, also known as WaMu. Over the past few weeks the familiar yellow and blue WaMu signs adorning neighborhood financial centers around the region have been coming down as workers install the unfamiliar blue logo of JPMorgan Chase, known to most of its customers as simply Chase.

Stephen Rotella, former president and chief operating officer of former bank Washington Mutual, has finally sold his Capitol Hill mansion.

Americans are no longer mad as hell and they seem ready to take outrageous pay packages for CEOs quite a bit longer.

Chase is on the hunt for commercial customers, says Pacific Northwest Chairwoman Phyllis Campbell.

Chase Bank is a new force in Portland banking, after absorbing the failed Washington Mutual, which was the largest bank to fail in U.S. history.

Top of the News: While Wall Street awaits the federal government's report on new capital requirements for the big banks, the Puget Sound watches a quieter drama: the contest for Russell Investments, detailed in a must-read story by the Times' Jim Brunner.

After eight months of makeovers, Washington Mutual branches in the Northwest are ready to be introduced by their new name - Chase.

Richard Goyette, a/k/a Michael Jurek, 47, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to serve a total of 46 months in federal prison and pay a $5000 fine and $87,734.40 in restitution to law enforcement for mailing 65 threatening letters from Amarillo to financial institutions in October 2008, announced Acting U.S. Attorney James ...

In 2003, Washington Mutual Chairman and CEO Kerry Killinger described his organization's strategic plans this way: "We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to theirs and Lowe's-Home Depot did to their industry.

Stocks of the 20 largest U.S. companies that declared bankruptcy since 1980 rose an average 18 percent one week after filing for court protection from creditors, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and BankruptcyData.com, a Boston-based research firm.

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