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...Starbucks' cachet, they have generated less buzz than a cup of decaf. And some Starbucks watchers doubt that they will add much of anything to the company's bottom line. "I don't think it is ever going to be a hugely profitable enterprise for Starbucks," says InStat/MDR analyst Mike Wolf. Pyramid, an analyst firm, predicts that the monthly wi-fi revenue per customer for all public hot spots around the globe will plummet from $30 today to just...
...Others aren't so sure. Christopher Will, an analyst at Lehman Brothers in London, describes the Phaeton as a "mistake" and an "irrelevancy." Says Will: "The VW brand could become muddled if the quality issues persist or if VW launches more products that don't fit its core image." Certainly it's hard to go upmarket when the perception is that quality is heading south, so fixing that must be Pischetsrieder's first task. Next, he's got to ensure that VW's move into luxury doesn't come at the expense of sales in its higher- volume, mid-priced...
...CHRISTOPHER WILL, Lehman Brothers analyst...
...bomb that killed 10 people near the U.S. embassy in Lima, three days before a visit by President Bush, Shining Path has made it clear that it's back. "Everything is aimed at restarting the armed struggle," says Major Rubén Zú?iga, an antiterrorism police analyst. "This is Guzmán's strategy." Zú?iga insists that the 68-year-old leftist - serving a life sentence in a Lima prison specially built for him - is still the motivating force for insurgents who have carried out more than 400 armed actions in the past two years. Most...
Eastern Europe is now playing catch-up. Poland has one of the world's fastest-growing cardboard-box industries. But the region in which box manufacturing is expanding most rapidly (20% over the past five years) is in Central and South America, says industry analyst Paul Bailin. Brazil, Costa Rica and others are building box factories to export avocados, coffee and other produce...