Word: distributor
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...market this year - the capitalization of software companies has fallen by an average of 39% - old economy stocks have quietly lasted out the boom and bust and are now reaping the benefits. But these companies didn't emerge unchanged, notes Anthony Habgood, executive chairman of Bunzl, a paper distributor and maker of cigarette filters that moved into the FTSE 100 last week. "We took a very pragmatic view with respect to the use of new technology, as indeed have a lot of manufacturing companies," he says, and this has transformed the way they interact with customers. It also brought gains...
...handy gadget dropped an estimated 30% but rebounded several months later, says Urs Wyss, marketing director of Victorinox, the biggest Swiss Army knife manufacturer. Buoyed by the knife's success, the Swiss Army line has morphed into watches, travel gear, apparel, cutlery, pens and eyewear. Victorinox's U.S. distributor, Swiss Army Brands of Shelton, Conn., opened its first retail store in New York last October selling rugged, no-fuss clothing and accessories. "Our designs are comfortable, practical and sturdy, appealing to people who lead active outdoor lives," says Thomas Lupinski, the company's chief financial officer. Meanwhile, Swiss Army Recycling...
...festival as "a gesture of peace," couldn't help but make op-ed columnists out of movie critics. Cannes is the most glamorous international home not just of the art film but of the political film - fervently, fashionably left-wing. Take Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine; a U.S. distributor did take it, for a healthy $3 million. Moore's docu-comedy, which earned the Jury's only unanimous award (a 55th Anniversary prize), is a rambunctious, disturbing, often hilarious autopsy of the American gun culture; it includes creepy interviews with James Nichols, brother of the Oklahoma City bombing conspirator...
...message. In look and attitude they are often indistinguishable from secular bands. P.O.D. even played on Saturday Night Live last month. "Kids have so many choices that when they buy something, it has to hit them on numerous levels," says Ron Shapiro, co-president of Atlantic Records, P.O.D.'s distributor. "It's about the music and the message." A typical P.O.D. lyric is pointed but tries to avoid religious cliche: "Commit my life to rebirth, well respected, 'cause that's my word/I'm sure you heard, about a new sound going around...
...always concerned about money as a printer traveling in the world of planters and fur traders. So, when the deist Franklin was offered a chance to print the pamphlets of the great fire and brimstone preacher, Jonathan Edwards, he had no reservations about being the largest distributor of Great Awakening propaganda. In a later controversy, Franklin was eager to print colonial paper money not because it would facilitate economic growth, but because he knew that as a printer, he’d get some of the cut for printing out the cash...