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...should explore the viability of forming joint ventures or other business relationships with the growing number of independent companies that have a significant reach into the hearts of the urban consumer base. A meaningful opportunity is at hand for a process of collaboration. Yet not one major manufacturer or distributor is involved in meeting this challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There A Future In Fashion's Past? | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

...Cristo) as Christ and Italian sex diva Monica Bellucci (soon to be seen in Matrix 2 and 3) as Mary Magdalene. Gibson is life-after-deathly serious about the project, which his production company is financing on an estimated budget of $25 million. (He doesn't yet have a distributor.) "This has been germinating inside me for 10 years," he says. "I have a deep need to tell this story. It's part of your upbringing, but it can seem so distant. The Gospels tell you what basically happened; I want to know what really went down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Passion of Mel Gibson | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...your daughter isn't sure whether she wants to be a pediatrician or a pilot? Take her out to play--role-play, that is. Laresgoiti, a former toy distributor, is partnering with Mexico City--based Grupo Magico Internacional, an amusement-park operator, to build Wannado, a $50 million children's career theme center set to open in Sunrise, Fla., in the spring of 2004. For $15 to $20, kids can play doctor--and cruise-ship captain, archaeologist and dozens of other roles--in lifelike surroundings with adult actors. Wannado will be modeled after a hit Mexico City operation that Laresgoiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People to Watch in International Business | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...rich to even look at ordinary people." So there was no sympathy on Jan. 7 when police arrested Thieu, 38, then raided his house, hauling off reams of documents and more than $250,000 in cash. The charge: his Dong Nam Telecom Trade and Service Co., the sole domestic distributor for Nokia and Samsung, was accused of dodging at least $6.5 million in import and value-added taxes last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resident Aliens | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...alleged Iraq connection makes the case especially troublesome on RJR's home turf. To circumvent economic sanctions against Iraq, the lawsuit alleges, RJR used a former employee, who had become a cigarette distributor in Cyprus, to guide its Winstons and Aspens (the top-selling brand in Iraq) to Baghdad. There, Saddam's son Uday, 38, collected "taxes" on them. The trade is so lucrative, the E.U. alleges, that the Iraqi government allows the Kurdish Workers' Party--considered by the U.S. to be a terrorist organization and by Iraq to be a threat to the regime--to deal in cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco: Smoke Screen? | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

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