Hints and tips:
...Further reading: British craft springs up as Swiss move with the times The first wristwatches were English and made for women....
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...Founded as a catalogue company in 1983 by Emily Cinader and her father Arthur, it was bought by Texas Pacific Group, a private equity firm, in 1997....
...In India, the luxury market, though still small, is estimated to be growing at 25 per cent a year – and its business sector is engaged in “an incredible wealth accumulation that sees these companies as assets...
...Forget the lipstick index as economic indicator; in this recession, the most successful downturn beauty product is proving to be fragrance....
...Contrary to foreigners’ conventional wisdom, visiting and doing business in Canada is not the same as the US....
...He now needs to organise care for Alexander once both parents go back to work next spring. “We’re hoping we can put him in the crèche at work,” says Fischer. “But we haven’t got a place yet.”...
...Loser: The Anglo-Saxon model, in which markets are paramount, has lost a lot of adherents – particularly within Europe, where the continental business model has made significant gains at the expense at this...
...It still sells… Las Vegas, once the playground of the Rat Pack, has never been a bastion of political correctness....
...You’d look sideways in a hotel restaurant and a waiter was at your elbow,” says Robert Burns, who founded the Regent Hotel group in Asia in the 1970s....
...So find another excuse to blame big business, and continue to ignore the fundamental problem that we are doing a poor job educating our kids....
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