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COCA-COLA Excellent distribution has helped Coke capture 53% of the soft-drink market (Pepsi has 26%) and an estimated $1.86 billion in revenue. Once delivered in Shanghai on pedicabs, it's now available for 50?? a can from the South China Sea to Tibet. There's also the Chinese name, which means "thirsty mouth, happy mouth...
...again and again. Finally, I cracked. I just wanted to go home. They locked me up, and I called my dad, who hung up on me. Then he got me a very good lawyer. I spent three days in jail. After I was released, I didn't have the 50?? it cost to take a bus to my lawyer, so I had to bum money from someone who asked what it was for. I told him I was an artist and needed help. He then showed me an article that had just come out--the title read ARTIST STEALS...
Ripley, 25, started her retail career as a precocious 6year-old, selling a 50?? ring at a church fair for $1.50. From there, she peddled bric-a-brac to patient antique salesmen in London and flower arrangements at state fairs in her native Connecticut...
...Yukos will turn off the spigot, last week exceeded a record $43 per bbl. That's not a high in real terms--oil reached nearly $80 per bbl. in inflation-adjusted dollars after the 1979 Iranian revolution. But it's enough to cause concern that pump prices, already up 50?? per gal. this year, won't drop much soon. Consumers should get a small break in the fall, analysts say, when demand will ease as the summer driving season ends. Paul Horsnell, head of energy research at Barclays Capital in London, thinks the average U.S. gas price will settle...
Remember when a cup of coffee was a commodity, a 50?? mug of joe that came in three flavors: black, with sugar and with cream? That was before 1985, when Howard Schultz opened his first Seattle coffeehouse--later named Starbucks--and taught caffeine-craving consumers from Birmingham to Bangkok that what they really wanted was a $4 venti extra-hot triple-shot latte, easy on the foam. With 7,500 shops in 34 countries--plus supermarket sales--ringing up revenue north of $4 billion a year, Starbucks has become a global iconic consumer brand, as well as the place millions...