Société Générale Kerviel's lawyer called for his client to be acquitted. The ruling was announced on October 5, 2010, at 11 am. Jérôme Kerviel was found guilty of the three charges filed against him: breach of trust, fraudulent inputting of data into an IT system and forgery and use of forged documents. He was found to be solely responsible for the record loss suffered by Société Générale in early 2008, and was sentenced to five years in prison, with two of those years suspended, and ordered to pay damages of 4.9 billion euros to the Bank. Jérôme Kerviel immediately launched an appeal
Trader Joe's Joe's quintupled the number of its stores between 1990 and 2001, and multiplied its profits by ten. "Supermarket News" estimated Trader Joe's sales for 2015 at $13 billion, and placed Trader Joe's 21st on the list of "SN's Top 75 Retailers for 2016." In February 2008, "BusinessWeek" reported that the company had the highest sales per square foot of any grocer in the United States. Two-and-a-half years later and in 2016, "Fortune" magazine estimated sales to be $1,750 in merchandise per square foot—more than double the sales generated by Whole Foods. In February 2016, due to customer feedback, Trader Joe's