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...impressive fuel economy of around 20 km per liter, Hello Kitty-cute kei could play a big role in the future of Japanese transport. "It's a good bet that minis are going to be an increasing part of Japan's auto market," says Christopher Richter, Tokyo-based auto analyst for investment bank CLSA...
...Even in Japan, the market appears to have limits. Kei sales in April fell 6.4% from a year earlier, the first drop in 16 months. The slump is unlikely to last, however. "Over the long term the minicar market is expected to grow continuously," says Tsuyoshi Mochimaru, an auto analyst for Deutsche Securities in Tokyo. When a country's population shrinks, apparently so do its cars...
...much or more than you'd pay for any other cider or beer on offer. But price be damned, say British drinkers, who are acquiring a growing thirst for ciders in general, and premium ones in particular. Cider consumption in Britain jumped 35% last year - an increase analysts have dubbed the Magners effect. That's a tribute to a brand that has reinvented the centuries-old drink. Magners only became widely available in Britain last year, and it has already grabbed 13.7% of the cider market. In C&C's fiscal year ending Feb. 28, Magners' U.K. sales soared...
...rest of England in 2006. British rivals maintain that C&C is just riding a wave of popularity, not creating it. Sales of Strongbow, an S&N brand that boasts a 60% share of the U.K. cider market, have grown consistently for four years, the company says. Analyst O'Reilly disagrees, calculating that more than 70% of cider's recent growth is attributable to Magners. Certainly, rivals have dashed to bring out their own over-ice ciders: S&N dusted off its Bulmers Original brand, and Constellation Europe came out with Gaymers Original...
...situations for actions that a few years ago would have been ignored has led many observers to believe that the refs' egos are getting too big for their own, and the game's, good. "The bothersome thing is that we are forced to talk about the referees," says ESPN analyst and former NBA point guard Greg Anthony. "With all the great basketball going on, they're in the conversation. That's just frustrating...