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David Gray has broken his quiet spell since charging into the American music scene with his 1999 album White Ladder. His latest collection, A New Day At Midnight, is a set of 12 brand new songs that reflect Gray’s overarching mission to write and record music with personal meaning. He continues to avoid the pressures that fame, a solid first album, and a Grammy nomination tend to exert on the singer-songwriter. White Ladder fans will find that while Gray’s distinctive voice has not changed, A New Day At Midnight displays a very different...
...concluded that the groups’ reactions were so negative that scrapping the Let’s Go brand altogether and starting from scratch might be in the company’s best interest...
...company earned $2.5 billion in net profits last year while many retail-tech stars fizzled. Business in the U.S. has more than doubled since 1999, to $2.8 billion in revenues. When Kim, 48, arrived in 1999, Samsung was already turning out some cool products. But nobody had noticed. Its brand image was fuzzy and inconsistent from market to market. One reason was that it employed a gaggle of 55 ad agencies. Kim consolidated that work in a single shop, assigning Madison Avenue's Foote, Cone & Belding Worldwide to coordinate Samsung's global marketing...
Apex quickly fixed the problem, but by then the brand had developed a certain rogue hipness among illicit copiers of films on DVD. "We noticed on our website that a lot of people were searching for Apex," says Rick Souder, a Circuit City vice president. But the key to Apex's rapid growth was its rock-bottom prices, which were achieved by working closely with low-cost Chinese producers, accepting slim profit margins and skimping on advertising...
...expanding the Apex brand. They launched a television line earlier this year and are looking into digital cameras and air conditioners. Both men rack up loads of frequent-flyer miles across the Pacific. "I'm much busier than I want to be," says Hsu, the father of a girl, 8, and a boy, 4. He likes to spend his downtime watching cartoons with the kids and teaching his daughter to roller-skate...