...crisis. The chief executive of MAN, the German truck manufacturer...from steel trading to printing machines.Now he says "I get no criticism...diversified. This has helped MAN after the truck market virtually...That might partly explain why MAN has topped the list for shareholder...

...Consulting Group, said companies such as manufacturers of trucks and machines - which have seen revenues plummet 50-70 per cent during the...several industrialists. Hakan Samuelsson, chief executive of MAN, the German truckmaker, said that if the 2007 level of demand...

...we are fuelling a gigantic financial machine, one that is supposed to fund economic...earning the investor a return.But is the machine doing its job, or rather - as many suspect...opportunity for fees. "The City is a transaction machine," observes Colin Melvin, chief executive...

...editor of US Vogue magazine. One row back - a small step for man, a giant leap for fashionkind - is Burt Tansky, chief executive...suburban thrift shop to find treasures to transform on your sewing machine. The site combines traditional housemaker values with a dose...

...carpenter and as a child I would often visit his workshop. He had no machines - he refused to use them - but would make small pieces of furniture...soft spot for the original Vespa scooter I owned as a young man.How would you describe it?The house represents the basic intentions...

...brisk line in small electronics, including fans and coffee machines.Extra's bare-bones advertising jingle says it all: "Cheaper...are also moving up the list of necessities, including washing machines, as well as newer model mobile phones.The shopping experience...

...cassette recorders and VCRs, with campaigns such as "Home Taping is Killing Music" and litigation against Sony for their Betamax machines. It was only by the narrowest of margins that the US Supreme Court decided in 1984 that video recorders should not be considered...

...politburo, cabinet or large company board would have consulted grey men in suits like themselves.Markets are not a well-oiled machine: they are a constantly changing, adaptive biological system. Pluralism is their motive force, their essence chaotic, their...

...politburo, cabinet or large company board would have consulted grey men in suits like themselves.Markets are not a well-oiled machine: they are a constantly changing, adaptive biological system. Pluralism is their motive force, their essence chaotic, their...

...explosion of high-rise apartment buildings; and tens of millions of middle-class Chinese purchased the refrigerators, washing machines and televisions for their new homes in Gome stores. Mr Huang, now 39, has also pulled off two tricks that only a few Chinese...