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...People's Republic in two and a half years. But a 19% tariff on imported ice cream takes a giant lick out of the profits. "It's an awful margin that just goes to the Chinese government rather than allowing us to make a better return," says CEO Shane Lamont. When 150 New Zealand trade officials and businessmen take off for Beijing this weekend, Lamont's hopes of seeing an end to that tariff will fly with them...
...poor. Because even as some people worry about being able to put any kind of food on the table, the sales of specialty foods are up 17% over the past two years (compared with 4% for overall food sales). "The financial situation hasn't hurt us," says Andy Arons, CEO of New York City's Gourmet Garage stores. "I don't think that people necessarily skimp on eating well in hard times. Maybe 10 years ago, splurging on food seemed foreign, but when you are in a world where people pay $4 a day for a Starbucks coffee, an expensive...
...introduced the CEO principle. So we now have single, individual business leaders running and being responsible for global businesses. Siemens was fundamentally organized around committees, and now you have single accountability. You have clear alignment of responsibility and accountability. That's the key cultural change...
...strategy. It was developed under the leadership of Klaus Kleinfeld and his team. So I didn't have to change strategy at all. There's a strategic program called "Fit for 2010," which Klaus announced three or four weeks before he left. It's quite unusual that the outgoing CEO is announcing a program for the incoming one, but it's absolutely the right thing to do for the company...
...next afternoon, guests gathered at the MoCA forecourt in People's Park, where Ferruccio Ferragamo, Salvatore's eldest son and the company's CEO, launched an retrospective exhibition that consisted mostly of shoes and handbags, some of which had been worn by Taylor, Monroe and Mary Pickford. He was flanked by movie stars Tony Leung (In The Mood For Love) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha), whose presence drew hordes of passersby to gawk from just outside the VIP enclosure, holding phones aloft in an attempt to capture a grainy souvenir. Ferruccio talked about...