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...Building shiny new stores to meet that demand is easy. The hard part will be supplying them with fresh, clean and safe vegetables and fruit through a sophisticated supply chain that links farms and consumers, country and cities. It's here that the real revolution lies. At the moment, India has one of the most fragmented produce-supply chains on the planet. Industry experts estimate more than 30% of all fresh produce is lost or spoils before it reaches the market. On average, goods pass through six or seven middlemen before a consumer can buy it, resulting in tortuous journeys...
Because of its location, buried deep in the famous publishing area of this great city, the clientele is invariably intellectual, from intense young students (always chain smoking) to bookish lovers (always giggling) and gesticulating literary critics (always enraged). The atmosphere is lively, yet oddly calming. I could happily sit there for an hour just people watching. And, this being Paris, they'd all be watching me, too: edgy, curious, fascinated by human nature in all its guises. And what a place to end my days. After all, allegedly, I used to be a bit of an éditeur myself...
...name is Scott Fried, I live in New York City, and this is what HIV looks like on a man,"? said Fried, addressing his audience - two young mothers breast-feeding their infants and a group of young toughs in stiff new blue jeans chain-smoking cigarettes. He reassured them that you can't get AIDS from touching someone who is infected or breathing the air after they sneeze, and you can't get AIDS from a child who is infected with HIV. Fried, who is gay, also told them what it had been like to tell his conservative Jewish parents...
...pile into the relatively untapped U.S. market--while fast fashion accounts for around 12% of the British clothing market, it is just 1% of the total in the U.S., according to Bain, a consulting firm. Spying massive opportunities, Spain's Zara has two dozen stores in the U.S.; Swedish chain H&M boasts more than 100. Not Topshop. Though it has sold individual collections in America--along with the Kate Moss range at Barneys, Topshop's Unique line sells in the Opening Ceremony boutique in New York City--it has not followed with any stand-alone stores before now. Until...
...Washington for talks aimed at reducing the bilateral trade deficit. "It's a safe bet. It's politically savvy and economically very smart," says Bank of America market strategist Joseph Quinlan. The Saudi plastics buy, in turn, is part of an effort to move up the economic food chain from pumping oil to making things of value out of it. The day after, the CEO of oil-field-services firm Halliburton practically begged for a similar investment from the gulf...