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...The setting is Los Angeles, a low-rise beige-out of warehouses and mini-marts....
...“Amazon is driving Wal-Mart out of business! It’s going to get worse before it gets better.”...
...Mackey on his response to Jana: They have to know that I’m going to resist that…[Whole Foods is] my baby. I’m going to protect my kid, and they’ve got to knock Daddy out if they want to take it over....
...Just yesterday Macy’s reported a 4/8 per cent drop in fourth quarter like-for-like sales while Wal-Mart saw a meagre 0.6 per cent rise in same store sales....
...Mr Soto admits it is still “taking baby steps” towards becoming a leading multinational but says AJE can find the right balance....
...Well, baby steps. PepsiCo is a little more gung-ho about CNG; as of August, Frito-Lay had 67 compressed natural gas (CNG) tractors....
...This leaves, Li & Fung, which sources goods for the likes of Wal-Mart, as the only export-focused company left on the index. But for how much longer?...
...Baby Boomers working longer, for less – FT Alphaville...
...“He was a genius – a king,” says Robert Evans, the former chairman of Paramount Pictures and the producer of The Godfather and Rosemary’s Baby (as an actor earlier in his career, Evans played Thalberg in...
...“I was thinking of checking out Wal-Mart,” Ms Coffey says. “I’m sure there are so many people looking for work there’s probably not going to be much of anything out there . . ....
...Retailer Wal-Mart, for example, employs older staff in its shops....
...The site, Alice.com, sells leading name goods such as Tide laundry detergent and Huggies baby products at prices that are in line with mass discounters such as Wal-Mart and Target, and about 20 per cent...
...Janet Hoffman, managing partner of Accenture’s North American retail practice, said “the overall picture is for a baby step towards [a] positive [environment]”....
...And parking such cars – not to mention parking a “Baby Rolls” – is a nightmare in the city’s congested, narrow streets....
...It’s possible, after all, that the baby boomers will hang on to power, keeping Gen X in a Prince Charles-like holding pattern. And then there are the people nipping at Gen X’s heels....
...In 2006 the group established Mumtaz Ventures to supply Halal baby food in the UK and overseas....
...PepsiCo and the Pepsi Bottling Group, in which PepsiCo holds a 45 per cent share, will invest $1.4bn in the Russian company, excluding its baby food and mineral water business....
...Newell Rubbermaid, whose products range from storage bins to baby chairs, cut its 2008 sales growth forecast on January 31 to 2-3 per cent, down from its previous forecast of 3-5 per cent....
...However, the experience of Asda, which was taken over by Wal-Mart, the US retailing giant, in 1999, suggests such fears could turn out to be unfounded....
...– commonly used in the toy industry – from their packaging and own-brand children’s and baby products....
...STEVE BALLMER: Onward and upward, baby. Onward and upward. FT: What does it mean to lose Bill Gates from his full-time role?...
...“Just because demographers call them baby-boomers, it does not mean they call themselves baby-boomers,” he says....
...The writer, chairman of Lever Brothers until 1995, now chairs Plum Baby. Last year he co-authored the book Supermarket Wars...
...These are the MNCs that own the brands and distributor relationships, and the distributors themselves, such as Wal-Mart and Toys R Us....
...“The main thing driving this spirituality boom is the ageing of the baby boomers....
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