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Earnings January 10, 2019

MSC Industrial sizzles, Enzo stumbles in new fiscal year

MSC INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY CO. Headquarters: Melville Industry: Capital goods NYSE: MSM Reporting Date: Jan. 9, 2018 Reporting Quarter: 1Q FY2019 Quarter Ended: Dec. 1, 2018 Numbers: Net first-quarter sales were reported as $831.6 million, an 8.2 percent improvement over the $768.6 million reported for the same quarter last fiscal year. Quarterly net income was reported as $74.2 million, a 24.6 percent increase from the $59.6 million reported for 1Q FY2018, while quarterly diluted earnings-per-share…

Newsletters June 22, 2018

No. 317: Anid’s big promotion, Adelphi’s big award, keeping it local and why you need grumpy employees

The end: Another busy week concludes and another blessed weekend dawns, dear readers – congratulations on successfully navigating the choppy waters of socioeconomic innovation, once again. It’s Friday, June 22, the first full day of the Summer of 2018 and the last day of school for most Long Island tykes. It’s also Anti-Fascist Struggle Day in Croatia, kicking off a four-day holiday weekend that concludes with the republic’s national independence celebration, Statehood Day. Uživati! Bay…

Newsletters February 7, 2018

No. 279: A new flu review, taking the fight to tuberculosis and why your fish might really like a cold beer

Welcome to Wednesday: And over the hump we go, dear readers, with another week of Long Island innovation and socioeconomic progress in full swing. It was 179 years ago today, on Feb. 7, 1839, when U.S. Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky – warned that a speech would offend abolitionists and pro-slavery factions alike, and could cost him the presidential election – told Congress, “I had rather be right than be president.” The nose knows: Walt…

Newsletters November 8, 2017

No. 256: Historic places, earning potential, winning students and will.i.am doing customer service

Good day, comrades: Take a bow this Nov. 8, dear readers, if you were around 100 years ago today, when Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin took over following Russia’s October Revolution of 1917. (Just, you know … bow carefully.) Welcome new readers Ted, Joseph, Diane and Daniel, and please share your thoughts at editor@innovateli.com. Story tips, corrections and back-pats gratefully accepted. Shed no tiers for them: Heartfelt congratulations to our friends at Uniondale law firm Farrell…