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Back home, Disney has always worked with corporate sponsors, such as Kodak and Coca-Cola, but the trend is clearly toward shifting even more of the financial burden to them. So California Adventure offers more brand names than Macy's: the Golden Vine Winery and tasting room sponsored by Robert Mondavi, a sourdough breadmaking factory from Boudin Bakery and the Avalon Cove restaurant of celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, to name...
...charges against IBM are hardly unique. Many U.S.-based multinationals, including Ford Motor Company, Coca-Cola and Colgate-Palmolive, have weathered charges of aiding and/or operating for profits under the Nazi regime. A few years ago, when a lawsuit was brought against Ford, the company fought (and won) for a dismissal, but not before it acknowledged that its German subsidiary used labor from the Buchenwald concentration camp to build vehicles. Ford's U.S. offices maintain they were not responsible for what went on after its assets were seized in 1941 - a claim many companies, including IBM, make in the face...
...employee of the Coca-Cola Co. for the past 14 years, sometimes feels a bit like a man adrift on a shrinking piece of pack ice. As corporate-affairs director for Coke's Chinese operations, he has been busy lately helping the company move its local headquarters from Hong Kong to the mainland powerhouse of Shanghai. Now that the move is complete, he and six other staff members are all that are left of a former complement of 140 people. In Shanghai, by contrast, Coke's staff will have jumped to a 1 million-sq.-ft., seven-story building...
...indication when China intends to make its renminbi a truly international instrument. Mainland China lacks a reliable legal system and widespread use of the English language, both mainstays of international commerce. Hence many multinationals are hedging their bets. China operations may be moving to Shanghai, but companies like Coca-Cola and Philips have kept their formal Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. That too could change, however. Hong Kong, after all, was once no more than a piece of barren rock with no economic value whatsoever. And people in Shanghai are well aware that hard work and entrepreneurship can produce...
...Where a stunning victory by a former Coca-Cola exec upset the 71-year-old ruling party...