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...success. Sarah Wiener, one of Berlin's top chefs, serves the drink in all three of her pan-European restaurants. "It's a great idea. The timing was right," she says. In 2002-03, Bionade sold 2 million bottles. By 2006, it was available in Switzerland, Austria and the Benelux countries, and sold 70 million. Leipold, now 69, is relieved the company's faith in its product is paying off. "We were just too early," he says...
...accomplished very little; electricity prices have risen 35-50% in the last year despite it. Yes, production costs have risen - the price of coal has doubled - but Claes points to a lack of competition. "An oligopoly of five big companies controls the market in Germany, France and the Benelux countries," he says, adding that a lack of cross-border capacity makes it hard for companies to shop around for electricity from another country. Even if market liberalization were working perfectly, it alone could not add more capacity. Fatih Birol, chief economist of the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), says...
...these intermediaries, and Airtours, Britain's biggest tour operator, will manage one of the three new hotels that Disney is building. A continuing challenge for Euro Disney is to develop the German market, which accounts for only 8% of visitors. (By comparison, 40% come from France, 18% from the Benelux countries and 15% from Britain...
...unproven medical and commercial possibilities. "If you could find a way of producing cells that would help maintain quality of life," Griffin says, "the market potential would be tremendous." But that potential would remain untapped if therapeutic cloning were banned. At present, every E.U. member state except the Benelux countries, Portugal and the U.K. have laws restricting cloning for research purposes...
...some time. In recent years Europeans have become increasingly jumpy about bad food--and with good reason. Since the outbreak of mad-cow disease in 1996, the appearance of dioxin-contaminated Belgian chickens last spring and the later recall of contaminated cans of Coca-Cola in France and the Benelux nations, health officials have grown fussier about what their citizens consume--raising the doubts about GM food even higher...