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...Next Bud Light Ad Online Could Star You The short unhappy history of online advertising may be about to take a popular turn. Anheuser-Busch Cos. is launching an online ad campaign that allows viewers to create virtual personalities (or "veepers") and email them around to friends. The campaign could turn out to be a runaway online hit, but critics worry that underage folks might be the unintended audience...
...Paul Cos., the nation's second largest medical-malpractice insurer, decided that it had had enough. As jury awards climbed, the company found in 2000 that it paid out $1.80 in defense costs for every $1 collected in premiums. The company lost nearly $1 billion in its medical coverage alone in 2001. "We just couldn't continue writing coverage with those kinds of losses," said spokeswoman Andrea Woods. "And looking ahead, the trend in jury awards was just going to continue to rise. We couldn't stay on for the ride and just hope that things would turn around...
...year, Gold says, it turned a profit on $1.5 million in sales, and the ink has been black ever since. Gold and Williams celebrated by acquiring an En-glish bulldog they named Lulu, who has become the company's advertising mascot. In 1998 Gold sold out to the Rowe Cos., owners of Rowe Furniture, which makes upholstered and leather furniture, and two retail chains, Home Elements and Storehouse. The deal afforded Gold financial security, and the ongoing relationship is strictly hands...
...Carlson Cos. of Minneapolis, Minn., a hotel and restaurant conglomerate, offers a cutting-edge example of the new urge to help employees do good while they do well. This month Carlson is rolling out a special online database that employees can use to find volunteer openings in fields as diverse as teaching reading to adults, building homes for low-income residents or rehabilitating sick birds. The database will also notify individual employees of specific opportunities in their areas of interest. Corporate executives say the program could help reduce turnover 5% to 10% for the company, which employs 50,000 people...
...Better stop dreaming of the quiet life 'cos it's the one we'll never know"-The Jam, "A Town Called Malice...