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...understand Brabeck's strategy of cost-efficient global growth, unwrap a Kit Kat. Nestle acquired the chocolate-covered wafer bar in 1988 when it bought Britain's Rowntree. Today it's a $1 billion business, says Patrice Bula, head of the chocolate division at Nestle headquarters, and the company is pushing Kit Kat as its answer to the Mars bar, the world's most popular candy. Last year Nestle started producing Kit Kats in Russia and Bulgaria for Eastern Europe. A Latin American launch is slated this year. Kit Kat is already selling briskly in Japan, Australia and India...
...sufficiently powerful, but they don't last long enough. Rather, Happonen hopes first to sell large quantities to the makers of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, which don't draw constant power and lend themselves to the battery's thinness. RFID tags are the tiny chips that are replacing bar codes. They wirelessly transmit information about themselves, making it easier to track, say, what's in stock in a store. Battery-powered RFID tags can transmit farther than non-battery-powered versions and push RFID signals through liquid and aluminum cans--two common signal stoppers in supermarkets. The market potential...
...family went to Sam Ash—Guitar Center for the headphones set—where Sam got his first pair of turntables. He bought them with Bar Mitzvah money...
...there are more layers to these narratives than a one-sided view would recognize.Harvard senior D. Zak Tanjeloff ’08 also jumped on the brand marketing bandwagon, but he was representing InternBar, a product of his own creation. Tanjeloff discovered that there were perks to running a bar-crawling group that went beyond being able to pay his rent. “We sort of connected a community together,” he recalls, “which felt really good because everyone was new to New York City.” McCoy and his JetBlue co-representative...
...know he’ll deliver.” Amaker also has high hopes for Lin as they embark on their first season together. “We want him to blossom, to be a high-flyer, and we need that from him,” Amaker says. The bar has thus been raised for Lin, who averaged 4.8 points per game while shooting 41.5 percent from the floor last year and also knocked down an impressive 81.8 percent from the free-throw line. He also registered 70 rebounds and 28 steals last year. Lin will also be building...