"We believe our customers spent a good portion of that increase in our stores," said Bruce A. Quinnell, the chief financial officer of the Nashville-based company.

Victor Campbell, a spokesman for the Nashville-based company, said many details were unavailable because the deal had not been completed.

He also founded several Nashville-based companies including magazine publisher PlusMedia and investment bank Harpeth Capital.

He recorded several commercials for a Nashville-based diabetic company, AmMed Direct, LLC.

The Nashville-based company earned $2.81 a share last year on an operating basis.

Link2Gov, the Nashville-based company that Yonkers hired, says that the number of local governments using its service has more than doubled in the last two years.

Mr. O'Neil, 53 years old, is the president and chief executive of the Nashville-based company, which Corning Glass Works agreed to acquire this week for $260 million.

StarSong, a Nashville-based company, urged him to form a male vocal group.

The center is operated under contract by the private Nashville-based company, Corrections Corporation of America, which took over in January 1997.

The Nashville-based company manages prisons and other correctional operations for government agencies.