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Non-Tech : Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (KKD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Red Heeler who wrote (137)	4/12/2000 10:54:00 AM
From: swisstrader	Respond to of 1001

Damn Schwab, no shares to short!!

To: Red Heeler who wrote (137)	4/13/2000 1:30:00 PM
From: Boquacious	Respond to of 1001

But some analysts see it differently. The money is "not really going to growth at all," says Lehman Brothers' Mr. Speiser. "The franchisees are growing, and the franchisees don't get the proceeds." Adds Ms. Kao of Renaissance Capital: "The $7 million going to insiders, I wasn't so crazy about." In addition, Ms. Kao considers the salaries of the company's executives -- Mr. Livengood was paid $849,536 last year -- to be "pretty high salaries compared to a lot of other companies I've seen." Krispy Kreme ended a practice last year that it called the "Kingsmill Plan," through which the company made "collateral repurchase agreements" and backed loans to executives and directors who wanted to become franchisees. "It's like an insider transaction," says Ms. Kao.