The focus of our “Mondays with Rick” column this week is the pros and cons of selling your company to a private equity firm. In today’s business minute, ABD Publisher Neil Gordon says it almost happened with Southern Industries.

“That’s the End of the Third Quarter, With the Score…”
3rd Quarter. You may have thought this was a football-related column! No, I’m not “tackling” another sports theme. The “third quarter” refers not to the


