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...that obligates one to find the perfect gift at the perfect price for just about everyone. According to a study by the American Research Group, the average American will spend just over $1000 on gifts this season—more than double the average individual in 1991. Ever since Coca-Cola introduced our modern image of Santa Claus to the world, consumers have been held hostage yearly by their own expectations and by the advertisers who have come to understand them. The tinsel in the window is not an expression of good will; it is a declaration that there...
...production. His lab can reduce a blackberry bouquet into its precise chemical constituents, and then tell the paying customer how to put them into his own vintage. After seeing the film, Rolland launched an ad hominem attack claiming Nossiter "must have grown up, like so many Americans, surrounded by Coca-Cola, hamburgers and The Muppet Show." That weirdly parochial insult only highlights Nossiter's cosmopolitan approach. He finds nuance everywhere, including in his interview with Robert Parker, the redoubtable American wine critic who can make or break a vintage in the newsletter he produces from his Maryland home office, with...
These days Charlap's career is getting down deep too. When Jazz at Lincoln Center unveiled its Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola last month, Charlap was the opening act. Lincoln Center has booked him to present a concert in February titled Great American Songwriters. He was also named to take over next year as artistic director of the well-regarded Jazz in July festival at Manhattan's 92nd Street...
...market rigging and issuing false information, he may wish he had heeded those doubts. But back in March 2003, he says, he knew the company had some financial problems but had no idea how bad things were about to get. Parmalat was trying to style itself as the "Coca-Cola of milk," and Ferraris, 46, a former Milan-based corporate banker for Citigroup, had spent six years building its operations in Canada and Australia. But in late February the company stock had nosedived when the firm's irascible CFO, Fausto Tonna, announced an unexpected new bond issue - a fresh increase...
...COCA-COLA Excellent distribution has helped Coke capture 53% of the soft-drink market (Pepsi has 26%) and an estimated $1.86 billion in revenue. Once delivered in Shanghai on pedicabs, it's now available for 50˘ a can from the South China Sea to Tibet. There's also the Chinese name, which means "thirsty mouth, happy mouth...