Word: colas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...N.B.A. player to be a league licensee. "I just kept seeing all these people wearing my T shirts, and I was not getting a dime from it," he says. From that came "Magic's 32," a store selling his T shirts and other merchandise. He later bought a Pepsi Cola distributorship with Black Enterprise publisher Earl Graves. He has since sold Graves his interest. Johnson's basketball and business skills --he owns a piece of the Lakers--have made him worth more than $100 million...
These torrents have poured in just as companies have rediscovered merger mania and thereby taken countless shares off the trading boards. The supply has shrunk further as companies have bought back bushels of their own shares. Corporate America repurchased nearly $170 billion of its equities last year. Coca-Cola, whose price rose 42% in 1996, helped the increase along by declaring its intention to swallow as many as 206 million shares of Coke, or 8.3% of the company's outstanding common stock...
Foods that the study recommends women should avoid include white bread, french fries, cola beverages and mashed potatoes--all of which have high amounts of refined sugar and cause a quicker rise in blood sugar levels than do high fiber foods, Mason said...
...power. Unlike the many hyped-up media gimmicks that have followed it, this movie never asked anyone to fall in love with it, as dozens of movies and a thousand other products ask of us every day ("Jurassic Park," "Twister", "Jerry Maguire," even "Trainspotting"--not to mention Nike, Coca-Cola, Must...
...growth at Pepsi. Says CEO Roger A. Enrico: "Our goal in taking these steps is to dramatically sharpen PepsiCo's focus." He needs to, given Pepsi's loss of global share. Pepsi will keep Frito-Lay, the undisputed king of snacks. This leaves Enrico free to return to the cola wars. Things are about to get interesting...