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...assumed his duties. The company's stock rose 10% on the news. Under Drexler, who took over as president of Gap brand in 1983, the company has gone from a $430 million blue-jeans chain to an $11 billion global enterprise with the kind of brand recognition enjoyed by Coca-Cola. It is rare to find a town where a Gap store does not exist and rarer still to find someone who doesn't have at least one item of Gap clothing. The name needs no translation in Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Germany, where Gap Inc. operates...
...Jobs cut worldwide last week by new Coca-Cola CEO Douglas Daft...
...Increase in Coca-Cola's global work force over the past decade...
...tuned into the unfamiliar game and not even the commercials, one thing that I thought would have been constant over the year had changed. McDonald's and Coca-Cola, companies once considered dependable for creative advertisements, were replaced by no-name dot.com companies. And the dot.coms took expensive advertising time, put on cheap ads and got everyone's attention. The profusion left them all muddled together--I remember cowboys herding cats and a monkey dancing, but I cannot remember any of the names of the companies or what the advertisements hoped to promote...
...even all those spoonfuls of sugar in every glass of Coke will help thismedicine go down. Coca-Cola announced plans Wednesday to eliminate more than one fifth of its 29,000 global workforce, and its new chief warned analysts to lower their projected annual growth targets for the company. The axe fell on 3,300 U.S. jobs and 2,500 overseas positions as new CEO Douglas Daft sought to absorb the delayed impact of the global financial crisis of 1998-99, which had a dramatic impact on demand for U.S. soft drinks. "The key factor in the company's performance...