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New York, New York–(Newsfile Corp. – January 12, 2025) – WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of common stock of MGP Ingredients , Inc. (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:) between May 4, 2023 and October 30, 2024 (the “Class Period”), of the important February 14, 2025 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased MGPI common stock during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the MGPI class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9167 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email case@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 14, 2025. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company at the time. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action (WA:) Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs’ Bar. Many of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made materially false and/or misleading statements, and failed to disclose material adverse facts about MGPI’s business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, defendants repeatedly touted a strong demand and “normal” inventory levels in brown goods (i.e., American whiskies and tequila), when in fact there had been a slowdown in consumption and oversupply in their products. Worse, defendants had assured investors that they were positioned differently than their competitors, and that this was a non-issue, because MGPI had already taken steps to mitigate the risk, when in fact it had not. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the MGPI class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9167 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email case@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor’s ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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Big Apple eateries say a new “char broil” rule is totally half-baked.
The city’s environmental cops could force restaurants that use char broilers to cut their smoky emissions by 75% — or figure out a new way to cook meat and fish.
Restaurants that char-broil more than 875 pounds of meat per week would be barred from operating unless they install an emissions control device to curb pollutants if their char broilers were installed before May 6, 2016, according to a new rule proposed by the Department of Environmental Protection.
A proposed regulation limiting char broilers is leaving New York City restaurateurs incensed — including Junior’s Cheesecake owner Alan Rosen. LP Media
“People are getting knifed in the subway and they’re worried about chair broilers?” fumed Junior’s restaurant owner Alan Rosen, who chars meat at three iconic eateries in Midtown Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Industry sources estimate as many as 200 restaurants could be affected by the new rule from the Department of Environmental Protection, with thousands of dollars in costs associated with upgrading their exhaust systems unless they apply for a hardship variance.
The latest green move follows a similar crackdown on wood-and-coal oven pizzerias but smoking-mad restaurateurs like Rosen say government overreach and the Nanny State shouldn’t turn items into the Nanny Steak.
“We grill with an open flame,” he said. “We’ve been doing this for almost 75 years. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
“The government should focus on quality of life issues and stop messing with my burgers,” he went on. “This is a government that’s gone haywire. This shouldn’t be on anyone’s radar.”
The ruled proposed by the city’s Department of Environmental Protection would force restaurants that use char broilers to reduce emissions by 75% or be barred from operating. LP Media
Popular steakhouses are in the crosshairs of the proposed requirement, which is likely to go into effect later this year.
Empire Steakhouse — which has three locations in Manhattan — could be forced to upgrade their exhaust systems, a staffer said.
Burger King advertises that it flame broils its meats but a source familiar with the requirements said the fast-food giant’s cookers already comply with the emissions rule.
The Whopper maker declined to comment.
Popular charbroilers are larger than grills and can cook more substantial quantities of food at one time, giving meats a smoky taste.
They operate by using a gas flame, and food industry sources said they provide quick and consistent heat, allowing the temperature to be more easily controlled than grills.
But they also burn a lot of particulate matter, or pollutants.
A University of California-Riverside study found that commercially cooked hamburgers cause more air pollution than diesel trucks driving 140 miles on a highway.
Commercial char broilers in the five boroughs emit about 4,000 tons of particulate matter a year, according to data compiled by the DEP.
The city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene estimates that such emissions contributed to more than 12% of particulate matter premature deaths annually.
Rosen told The Post the city should focus on quality of life issues instead of “messing with my burgers.” LP Media
“If all commercial char broilers had control technology installed, the reduction in ambient PM concentrations could have prevented nearly 350 of these premature deaths each year,” the proposed rule stated.
The DEP defended the stricter exhaust requirements, which comply with a law approved by the City Council and former Mayor de Blasio a decade ago.
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The law “prohibits the operation of any existing commercial char broiler cooking more than 875 pounds of meat per week unless it has an emissions control device that meets the requirements established by the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection.”
“Commercial cooking is New York City’s largest local source of air pollution — it accounts for twice as much as construction and transportation pollution,” said Rohit Aggarwala, the city’s chief climate officer and DEP Commissioner.
“We believe the City can prevent as many as 300 premature deaths a year by requiring big establishments to use filters on their charbroilers.”
But Rosen of Junior’s said the health concerns are a lot of baloney.
“This whole thing is a nothing burger. Pun intended,” Rosen said.
Junior’s owner Alan Rosen denied the health concerns about char broilers in restaurants. LP Media
One industry rep said the city should help pay for the costs of eateries to comply with the anti-pollution edict.
“We support cleaner air, but it can be very expensive for restaurants to make these emission upgrades, so the city should be providing grants and financial support to help small businesses meet their imposed goals,” said Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance.
The green edict also comes after Gov. Kathy Hochul and Albany lawmakers banned the use of gas stoves in most new housing construction, requiring buildings to go electric.
DEP will hold a public hearing on the chair broil emissions on Jan. 29. The edict will take effect six months after it’s finalized.
“Democrats on the Hill have been gushing . . . over their own performance regarding the certification of the outcome of the 2024 election,” notes Mike Mulvaney at The Hill, with no Dem challenging the Republican victory for the first time since 1988.
But the self-congratulation for their “grace and elegance” needs context. “Where was it during the election cycle?”
Vice President Kamala Harris certifying the results of the 2024 presidential election next to House Speaker Mike Johnson on Jan. 6, 2025. Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
Dems repeatedly called Trump a “fascist” “determined to destroy American democracy.”
“And no course on grace and elegance in American politics would be complete without the obligatory Hitler references.”
Don’t think it’s changed: “Regarding Biden’s cordial post-election meeting with Trump in the Oval Office, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre assured us that ‘Biden’s thoughts about democracy being under threat’ still applied.”
“Which tells me that the vote on certification was more of a political charade than anything else.”
Conservative: Biden’s No Jimmy Carter
At the Jimmy Carter service in DC, “Joe Biden’s eulogy was mainly a reminder of how different the two men were, particularly when it came to honesty and character,” snarks The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly A. Strassel.
They faced similar policy challenges: “inflation, energy, crime, global disorder.”
But their contrasting characters separate them — “one devoted to country and faith, one to party and self.”
“Carter was elected on a promise never to lie to the American people, and he honored it.”
“Mr. Biden promised he wouldn’t pardon his son Hunter” for serious crimes, yet he did it anyway.
Despite praising Carter’s “character” in his eulogy, it is obvious Biden hadn’t “learned something from the 39th president’s example.”
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Liberal: The Unstoppable Rise of Energy Realism
Democrats are stuck on “a climate catastrophist narrative on energy policy,” observes The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira, demanding “immediate replacement of fossil fuels, including natural gas, by renewables, wind and solar.”
Yet despite vast green spending, the US “share of energy consumption from fossil fuels remains over 80 percent just as it does in the world as a whole.”
And Dems just lost to Trump, “whose priority is cheap, abundant energy — not clean energy.”
Indeed, says Teixeira, “lifting up the billions in the world who suffer from energy poverty and the stunted lives and living standards such poverty produces is or should be a moral imperative” — far more so than seeking Net Zero carbon emissions.
It “also overlaps in important ways with emerging voter sentiment about these issues,” especially working-class voters.
Dems need “their own version of energy realism — rather than pursuing the dead-end of climate catastrophism.”
Thiel: A Time for Truth & Reconciliation
Donald Trump’s “return to the White House augurs” an unveiling of secrets kept hidden by “the old guard’s war on the internet,” argues Peter Thiel in the Financial Times.
Perhaps we’ll resolve questions about the deaths of Jeffrey Epstein and President John Kennedy; we must “end the lockdown on a free discussion about Covid-19.”
Anthony Fauci and his top adviser David Morens “will have the chance to share some indecent facts about our own recent plague. Did they suspect that Covid spawned from US taxpayer-funded research, or an adjacent Chinese military programme? Why did we fund the work of EcoHealth Alliance, which sent researchers into remote Chinese caves to extract novel coronaviruses?”
And “how did our government stop the spread of such questions on social media?”
Trump declassifications “need not justify vengeance — reconstruction can go hand in hand with reconciliation. But for reconciliation to take place, there must first be truth.”
Libertarian: Ortega’s War on Christianity
Since 2018, “Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians,” warns Reason’s Katarina Hall.
Initially targeting the Catholic Church, President Daniel Ortega and his wife/VP Rosario Murillo have “forcibly closed” more than “1,100 religious entities” and dissolved the “Episcopal Diocese of Nicaragua along with 92 other religious organizations.”
“Easter processions, Christmas celebrations, and even cemetery prayers have all been outlawed.”
Shares in B&M European Value (LSE:BME) could be a passive income goldmine for investors in 2025 – and beyond. On top of its usual dividend, the firm just announced a one-off £151m distribution.
That means the company is set to return just under 10% of its market cap to shareholders this year in cash. But investors thinking of jumping at the opportunity should consider a few things first.
The issues
B&M announced the special dividend this week as part of its trading update for the period covering the last three months of 2024. But the report as a whole went down like a lead balloon.
Adjusting for exchange rates, revenues were 2.8% higher than the previous year. And while profits were also higher (by an unspecified amount), that’s largely where the good news ended for investors.
Sales growth was entirely the result of the company increasing its store count. On average, revenues per outlet were down 2.8% – and this is the continuation of a worrying trend.
Like-for-like sales were down 1.9% in the previous quarter and 5.1% in the one before that. That’s why the stock has been falling so consistently over the last nine months.
Sooner or later, that has to change if B&M is going to avoid stagnation. The company isn’t going to be able to keep opening stores indefinitely without them getting in each other’s way.
The current rate of store expansion is around 6%. So unless the decline in like-for-like sales can stop soon, the business is going to find its revenue growth falls behind inflation, which would be a problem.
Dividends
A £151m special dividend – equivalent to 15p per share – sounds like a result for shareholders. But this is below what B&M has distributed in previous years.
Over the last five years, the company has paid one-off distributions of either 25p or 20p per share each year. So the 15p announcement from this week represents a dividend cut.
I think this should make B&M shareholders think carefully about the outlook for the dividend in 2025. But there are also some clear reasons for optimism.
While like-for-like sales were lower over the last quarter, management reported that these started to improve in December. And the company is starting 2025 in a strong inventory position.
The stock has also reached a level where it could be a good passive income investment without the business growing. The regular dividend plus the special distribution amounts to a yield of 9.72%. Of course, dividends are never guaranteed.
This means a £20,000 investment today could return £1,944 in dividends this year. And that’s enough to make me take it seriously.
Opportunity?
A 9.72% dividend yield is the kind of thing that investors typically find with tobacco companies. But unlike British American Tobacco, I don’t believe B&M’s core business is in terminal decline.
Like-for-like sales have been going backwards, but the company as a whole continues to move forward. The stock is risky, but I think investors looking for passive income should seriously consider it.
I generally invest in medium- and large-sized companies with proven business models. But I own the odd penny share. One I am particularly excited about has soared 28% in the past month, although over five years it has fallen 90%.
But some recent developments led me to buy more shares in this company – here’s why.
A nice problem: lots of cash getting dusty
The company in question is Logistics Development Group (LSE: LDG).
With a market capitalisation of £75m, this is a fairly modest operation. It also has significant shareholders that have specific (and competing) visions of how the company ought to be run. I see that as a risk for a small shareholder like me, but it is also a potential opportunity.
Last year, an activist investor launched a campaign — ultimately unsuccessfully — seeking to wind down the company and distribute its assets to shareholders.
The reason for that is interesting in my view. LDG is basically sitting on a large pile of cash. The group’s cash position last month was about £44m, almost 60% of its entire current market capitalisation.
Unlocked value in investment portfolio
Not only that, but the company owns stakes in a number of other firms.
For example, it is a shareholder in Alliance Pharma. Last week, it was announced that Alliance had agreed to a takeover bid at a price 41% higher than its share price the day before the takeover was made public.
LDG indirectly owns 13% of Alliance. It will receive an equivalent stake in the new private company. Last month, LDG also announced that it had redeemed a £10m debt note it held in another company for £13.1m.
At that point, the company also laid out a plan I think is aimed at mollifying its activist shareholder, proposing a tender offer at 19p per share to return up to £21m to shareholders.
If that is approved by shareholders (which I expect it will be), LDG will buy back a certain amount of shares for 31% higher than they can be bought for on the open market right now.
Why I’ve been buying
That news led me to increase my stake in this penny share. The sizeable discount of the share price versus the proposed tender offer points to ongoing risks.
The tender offer may not complete, for example. Even if it does, its scale is capped, so there is no guarantee of how many shares I may be able to sell back to the company at the 19p price.
Even considering that though, I continue to see potential deep value here. LDG is sitting on a large cash pile it has explicitly set out to reduce by buying back some shares at well above their current price. It is also sitting on a number of investments that, as the debt note sale and Alliance takeover illustrate, could ultimately turn out to be worth more than their current carrying value on the company’s balance sheet.
They may not, of course. But on balance, I reckon LDG is a share that could ultimately be worth substantially more than its current price suggests.
The past few years have been good ones for bargain hunting in the London stock market, in my view. While some US shares have hit what I see as unjustifiable valuations, my hunt for shares to buy on this side of the pond keeps throwing up what I think are potentially real bargains.
Nobody knows how long that may last, but I am continuing to make hay while the sun shines (metaphorically, of course: a bit of actual sunshine feels more than overdue!)
Are British shares as cheap as they seem?
The stock market contains thousands of companies and some of them look expensive, not cheap, to me.
Taken in the round, however, there is a perception that even though the FTSE 100 hit a new all-time high last year, many blue-chip UK shares look fairly cheap.
Look at the five biggest shares in the index, for example.
AstraZeneca trades on a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 32 and Relx on 38. But Shell is on 13, HSBC just 8, and Unilever on 21.
Bear in mind those are the most valuable companies. At the other end of the FTSE 100, British Land is on a P/E ratio of 18, Persimmon 14, Londonmetric 16, Hiscox 6, and Endeavour Mining was loss-making last year so a P/E ratio is not applicable.
Still, the overall picture is clear. There are quite a few blue-chip companies trading on a fairly low P/E ratio.
Now, a P/E ratio is only one way to assess value when looking for shares to buy. So while HSBC looks cheap on that metric, I also value bank shares in other ways. But even looking at price-to-book value, for example, HSBC looks cheap to me.
What’s going on in the London market?
Sometimes, a low price is low for a reason. So, just because a share looks cheap, does not necessarily mean that it will be a bargain.
I have started the year by looking for shares to buy for my portfolio.
While I like HSBC’s large customer base, proven business, and attractive dividend yield of 6%, I remain concerned about the risks that an economic slowdown could pose to loan default rates and bank profits. So for now I do not plan to buy HSBC shares.
One share I’ve been buying
By contrast, one share I have been buying lately is JD Sports (LSE: JD).
The retailer has seen its share price fall 14% in a year – and 41% over five years. The potential for an economic slowdown I mentioned above could eat into consumer spending and hurt JD’s sales.
So, when I was looking for shares to buy this month, why did I land on JD Sports?
The market for sportswear is large. Over the long term, I expect it to remain that way.
JD Sports has proven its model in the UK. That market is still ticking over well, but the company has rolled out its formula in markets spanning the globe. Last year’s acquisition of a large US rival ate into the company’s cash but hopefully can add sales and profits in years to come.
The firm has a market capitalisation of £5bn yet expects full-year profit before tax and adjusting items to be close to £1bn. To me, the share price still looks cheap.
Alek Wek poses for Betsey Johnson’s spring-summer 2025 campaign. Photo: Matthew Hawkes / Betsey Johnson
Alek Wek stars in Betsey Johnson’s spring 2025 campaign, marking a joyful reunion nearly 30 years after her iconic wig toss during the designer’s fall 1998 show. Photographed by Matthew Hawkes and styled by David Taveras, the famous Black supermodel shines in a series of striking studio portraits.
Betsey Johnson Spring/Summer 2025 Campaign
Flashing a smile, Alek Wek fronts the spring 2025 campaign from Betsey Johnson. Photo: Matthew Hawkes / Betsey Johnson
The collection embraces Betsey Johnson’s signature playful energy, featuring bold leopard prints, feather-trimmed gowns, and dramatic, sculptural silhouettes.
Betsey Johnson features bold animal print in its spring 2025 campaign. Photo: Matthew Hawkes / Betsey Johnson
The accessories are equally eye-catching, with glittery knee-high boots and heels adorned with oversized bows. They heighten each look to new heights. It’s a celebration of unapologetic self-expression and fun.
Alek Wek models feathers for Betsey Johnson’s spring 2025 ad. Photo: Matthew Hawkes / Betsey Johnson
Reflecting on the collaboration, Alek described Johnson as a designer who brings pure joy to fashion, saying her work never fails to make people smile. This campaign bridges Alek’s trailblazing legacy with Betsey Johnson’s iconic, irreverent style, reminding us of the power of creativity.
Even worse, most domain name registrars have no mechanism to surrender an already-paid-for name. The registrar just tells the company, “Make sure it’s not auto-renewed, and then don’t renew it later.”
When bad guys find those abandoned sites, they can grab them and try and use them for illegal purposes. Therefore, the argument goes, the shorter the timeframe when those site certificates are valid, the less of a security threat it poses. That is one of those arguments that seems entirely reasonable on a whiteboard, but it doesn’t reflect reality in the field.
Shortening the timeframe might lessen those attacks, but only if the timeframe is so short it denies the attackers sufficient time to do their evil. And, some security specialists argue, 47 days is still plenty of time. Therefore, those attacks are unlikely to be materially reduced.
It’s looking more and more like we’ve been hearing about for the last few months will get Apple’s “Air” branding. In the newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says the iPhone 17 lineup will feature a new model that could be called the iPhone 17 Air, and it’ll be roughly 2 millimeters thinner than any other model we’ve seen yet. “It will have a base-level A19 chip and a single-lens camera system,” Gurman notes, and will serve “as a testing ground for future technologies, including ones that could allow for foldable devices.” That and the upcoming new iPhone SE will use Apple’s first in-house modem, according to Gurman.
We’re also likely to see upgrades to the entry-level iPad that will make it compatible with Apple Intelligence. Gurman reports that the next generation of iPad will get the A17 Pro chip and 8 GB of memory. That news should come in the spring along with the iPhone SE and new iPad Air models, according to Gurman.
