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Fewer and fewer famous brands make what they sell. Apple no longer assembles the bulk of the iMacs it sells. Hewlett-Packard, the world's leading brand of personal printers, doesn't make a single one. Nor does Cisco make the complex digital switches and routers that make up the backbone of the Internet. Instead, each of these companies (and the list grows daily) is throwing its financial and intellectual capital into product research, design and innovation--conceiving the next generation of gadgets and services, and marketing them under trusted brands...
White is preparing to invest $24 million in a plan to ship 132 million gal. of pristine lake water every week via specially lined oil tankers to prospective buyers (whom he declines to name) in the Southern U.S. and elsewhere. Canada's provinces prohibit bulk water shipments, on environmental grounds. Still, White's prospects have improved with official hints that Newfoundland's ban might be dropped--and with court challenges arguing that such bans are illegal under terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Says Bill Turner, who runs WaterBank.com an enterprise based in Albuquerque, N.M., that locates...
Although bottled water is already a $30 billion global industry, the technological challenge of shipping bulk quantities of freshwater between distant points and distributing it to customers has so far stumped some major would-be players. For example, Azurix, a water-retailing company and a subsidiary of the energy multinational Enron, is struggling. "Enron thought it could use its expertise as a commodity trader to market water like energy," says Debra Coy, a water analyst with Charles Schwab. "But water is more complex politically...
Vautin said the University was spared from severe problems because power was not lost on the north part of campus that houses the bulk of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ science labs...
...said the price tag—which would have ranged from $375,000 to $575,000—would have gone to hire local Thais, who after being trained by Porter, would have completed the bulk of the study...