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With my reserved excitement for baseball, you may be asking: will my loyalties lie with the local team, or my local team, the one that plays 2,000 miles away in a stadium named for a beer company...
What Harvard lacked in giant, House-sponsored dance parties this weekend, it made up for in wurst. Attendees at Oktoberfest, held in the Cambridge Queen’s Head, sampled a selection of authentic German sausages, side dishes, and of course, Oktoberfest beer. Revelers, many of them filtering in from Comedy for a Cause in Sanders Theatre, enjoyed a pub decorated in blue and white Oktoberfest pennants. Female employees dressed in themed costume. Alice E. M. Underwood ’11, a pub employee, recommended Bauernwurst as the best sausage and expressed enthusiasm for the event. “We?...
...food. CEO Franck Riboud says "the new Danone" will be "the most beautiful food platform you can imagine." Danone's cookie divestiture completed a transformation that has given the former conglomerate a clear focus. To get there, the company has undergone a radical change. In 1996 Danone was selling beer, glass, frozen food, pasta sauces, candies, Italian cheese, cookies, dairy products and water. Riboud, who took over the business from his famous industrialist father Antoine that year (the family controls less than 0.5% of the shares), decided in 1997 to refocus the company, which began its conglomerate life...
...transformation, Danone began selling off businesses like Kronenbourg beer and by 2003 had narrowed its activities to fresh dairy products, bottled water--and cookies. "In a long history of disposals, this we suspect was the final major divestment that leaves Danone fully focused on the growing health-oriented markets," says Charlie Mills, an analyst at Credit Suisse, of the July sale of the cookie business, which included household names like LU and Prince and made up 15.6% of the company's total sales...
...Ukraine are competing for bragging rights, a trophy and a garish crown adorned with chestnuts. The event feels like a cross between Halloween and a college football game. Five thousand spectators don fancy costumes (think nuns, pirates, horses and Dumbledore) and, from 9:30 in the morning, guzzle beer and munch on sausages...