Outback names interim financial officer, reports asset transfers

Outback Steakhouse is yet to nail down a permanent CFO, but has named a company insider to hold the post until the right candidate is found.

Feb 11, 2006 - 10:38
Joseph W. Hartnett, 44, vice president of corporate accounting, has been appointed to be interim principal financial and accounting officer of The Outback Steakhouse, effective immediately.

It's expected that Hartnett will serve in the role until Outback (NYSE: OSI) engages a new chief financial officer to replace its former CFO Robert S. Merritt, 53, who retired in April. In published reports, he cited the "increasingly negative regulatory environment in which we now operate" as the reasons for is departure

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