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Premier Exhibtitions can't seem to steer clear of contoversy these days. A few months back, the issue was the source for bodies used within the company's "Bodies...The Exhibition" show (see our March 29th post). Now it's a generally disappointing quarter, and a shareholder calling for action.

In my book, Put Your Money To Work - What you Need to Know to Invest in Stocks, I wrote a chapter about the characteristics of a great business. The two main characteristics include having a strong franchise or brand that can allow for years of longevity and sustain pricing power and margins; the second being that the company has a strong management, which can best be judged by how much money is earned on the capital employed or simply earnings as a percentage of assets.

Premier Exhibitions (PRXI) is the company that does the "Bodies" exhibition as well as other exhibitions including "Titani