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...time to their vegetable chopping. With folk songs playing in the slick teaching kitchen, the kids hum while their food sizzles. It's an unconventional kind of cooking school, and it really works. Martinez, 38, a Cuban-American former school teacher, has used that recipe to build a national chain of cooking schools for kids featuring courses like Mind, Body and Belly. By the end of 2005, Martinez--who spent her life savings of $400,000 to open her first store just a year ago--will have 27 Viva the Chef franchises in Alabama, Florida and Pennsylvania...
...Service. Isn't UPS, universally known as Big Brown, a package-delivery company? Yes--and no. Sure, the bulk of the Atlanta-based company's $33 billion in revenue still comes from moving boxes from one place to another. But the company is rapidly expanding into something called supply-chain management, helping hundreds of clients like Royal Canin not only move products from place to place but also store, assemble and repair goods, even interact with customers, all without the client company's having to get involved. Such insourcing of clients' operations--work that traditionally was done in-house...
...weeks at a time. In contrast, at Teamsters-based companies like Yellow Roadway, the benefits are better, and because of how we've engineered our systems, our drivers are home virtually every night. It's a higher quality of life. So we're at the top of the food chain and have no trouble finding drivers. But for others, it's a serious issue. And the vast majority of those--the nonunion companies--employ several million drivers. Union companies employ about...
Albert is unhappy and he isn’t sure why. Sadly, we never care. The root of Albert’s malaise, I think, is that he has sold out. He has entered into a partnership with Huckabees, a chain of K-Mart-like stores, to throw some muscle behind his coalition to save a local wetland. Russell’s sly appropriation of American corporate-speak provide the best moments in the Huckabees script: therapy would be unbecoming for a corporate executive, so Brad rationalizes his sessions with “existential therapists” by insisting they...
...good fit between Mittal's surfeit of raw materials and ISG's demand for them. Raju Daswani, head of research at industry analysis firm Metal Bulletin Research, says: "Mittal [has] a lot of raw material production, but not much exposure to the high-end value of the chain. ISG needs a supplier of raw materials...