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...many years ago behind a closed office door. But the answer is not that complex. The simple fact is that Bill Gates is not a tool of the antichrist. He is, in fact, the antichrist himself. And all the proof this journalist needs is contained within an e-mail chain letter a friend forwarded to me several weeks...
Despite sales of $2.1 billion and 12 companies in 20 countries, Beatrice remains largely unknown to American consumers. It is the leading seller of potato chips in Ireland and a top vendor of ice cream in Spain. Beatrice also owns the largest supermarket chain in Paris. Its problem is that while profitable, the company has to devote a large chunk of its cash flow to covering its debt. In the meantime, bigger and badder global competitors, including Nestle and Unilever, are moving in for the kill...
...change. She sees global expansion as the path to new growth, especially for the company's Franprix and Leader Price supermarket businesses. With 420 stores in the Paris area, Franprix is one of the largest grocers in France. Lewis is betting the house, however, on the leader price discount chain, which sells merchandise for 30% to 40% less than the competition and is growing by 50 to 60 outlets a year. Beatrice plans to have 500 leader price stores open by 2001, perhaps several in the U.S. to pay for that expansion, say insiders, the company may have to dispose...
...indeed, operating costs have declined since Barnes & Noble took over as the Coop's manager of operations last fall, with the large bookstore chain assuming the Coop's costs of advertising, data processing and some employee benefits and salaries...
...building that will bring the company's print, Internet and cable operations into close contact with one another. Nine companies, including Hearst, the New York Times Co. and the Washington Post Co., are participating in the New Century Network, a project that connects local papers. The privately held Newhouse chain, which owns 26 daily papers, while pouring money into its newsroom operations at New Jersey's Star-Ledger, in Newark, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is also giving its online services a push. "What we are trying to do is reinvent the paper to the extent it is necessary...