The Marketplace Report: Krispy Kreme's Turnaround Pro

By Madeleine Brand

Published January 19, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

- NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about the ouster of Krispy Kreme's CEO after the doughnut chain's dismal year. He's being replaced with a "turnaround expert" whose last assignment was damage control at Enron.

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Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).