Word: buttings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, in July, European authorities conducted a series of dawn raids on Coke facilities from the Continent to Britain in search of evidence that the company was offering retailers illegal kickbacks for favored shelf space. That investigation is ongoing. And last month French authorities rejected Ivester's $840 million bid...
Fortunately for Coke's board of directors, diplomacy is just one of Douglas Daft's strengths. The 30-year company veteran has spent most of his career overseas, building successful businesses in the uncertain, even untrammeled markets of the Middle East and Asia. If Ivester seems almost uncomfortable outside the...
Syrup may prove to be one of Daft's biggest challenges, assuming that he takes office as CEO next April. In what seems to many analysts to be an ever desperate bid to increase revenues, one of Ivester's most recent moves was to hike the price of Coke's...
In a letter to Coke's 30,000 employees last week, Ivester pointed to the "soul-searching" that preceded what was clearly a painful decision to abdicate the company throne. In an uncharacteristically melancholy tone, he exhorted the troops to look not toward the travails of the past but the...
But there's hope, a fresh alternative to the tawdry holiday present: gifts marketed by nonprofit organizations, with proceeds from these purchases going toward either the organization's general cause or a charitable service performed on the donor's behalf. Savvy holiday shoppers with a socially conscious heart often turn...