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...easily stay as long as they want merely by paying the odd $3 to $6 bribe. The guerrillas who carried out the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 even had their own weapons and explosives trucked in from Chechnya. Last week's bombing, says Lilia Shevtsova, a top analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, "ruins the Putin image of the President in control and on top of things." One thing it will not do, though, is damage his chances of re-election next month. His poll ratings are still around 80% and he seems set to sail back into power...
...focusing on the issue as a result of the recent scandals. While many big investors have been relaxed about companies using offshore holdings to reduce their tax burdens, overuse of havens can raise red flags. Indeed, in December 2002, a year before Parmalat blew up, a Merrill Lynch analyst in London, Joanna Speed, downgraded the company to "sell" from "buy" in part because of its "inefficient, opaque and complex" balance sheet. Shame can be a useful weapon. At a recent hearing by a U.S. Senate committee, senior executives of the accounting firm KPMG were accused of marketing aggressive and potentially...
Despite the number of headline brands, there is very little cannibalization--a feat that L'Oreal pulls off because of its extraordinary commitment to positioning and marketing. Merrill Lynch analyst Sandhya Raju estimates that L'Oreal spends about 30% of its sales revenues on advertising and promotion, against an average 25% spent by its principal competitors. Take L'Oreal's move into China, where the cosmetics market grew 14% in 2002 and where L'Oreal's sales grew 61% that year. In L'Oreal's view, it is selling products to an archetypal Miss Yu, who is 18, still lives...
...lower capital gains rate (rather than as ordinary income) prodded a wave of companies to initiate payouts. Dividend payers in the S&P now number 370, and the average yield is 1.6%. Those remain well below historical levels. "We're just turning the corner," says Howard Silverblatt, an analyst...
...past decade, Western Europe's share of L'Oreal's overall sales has fallen about 12%, while the share of regions like Asia has risen more than 20%. L'Oreal also has its eye on India and Mexico. "It's a superb sales model," says Andy Smith, an analyst at Citigroup Smith Barney, of L'Oreal. "They've managed to identify all the hot spots of growth in the industry and dominate those areas...