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...customers and prospects, one after another canceled or postponed orders. His venture-capital investors started making nervous noises. So Dalias looked abroad for help. Despite having a meager track record and no multinational distribution channels, the CEO landed his first big sale, to NetOne Systems, a leading tech distributor and systems integrator based in Tokyo, and that success helped Dalias close his first U.S. sale in June...
Hewitt is the leading snit-distributor in men's tennis, a player whose take-no-prisoners attitude has produced two Grand Slam singles titles. This week he defends his U.S. Open crown, two months after conquering Wimbledon. It's the same attitude that has driven him to unseemly conflicts with fans, opponents, tour officials and umpires. At the French Open, he called the chair umpire "spastic," and he got into an ugly run-in with an umpire at last year's U.S. Open. More recently he rang up a $105,650 fine, now under appeal, for allegedly running afoul...
...these reasons, in the long-ago days of my soft-core connoisseurship, I preferred Metzger's films. As director, he made such money-making dramas as "Camille 2000," "Therese and Isabelle" and "The Lickerish Quartet." As a distributor, he imported and meticulously re-edited (sometimes re-shot) movies by soft-core masters Max Pecas ("Erotic Touch of Hot Skin"), Jos? B?naz?raf ("Sexus") and Mac Ahlberg ("I, a Woman...
...reports that an avalanche of 9/11-related books are being published to coincide with the one-year anniversary. "Whether publishers are motivated by plucky optimism or cannibal instincts, they are pushing an astonishing number of September 11-related books into the market," says PW. Ingram, the leading book distributor, estimates that there are 150 titles, "clearly a high-water mark for book tie-in to a single news event," says PW. There are also numerous children's titles, says PW, including "Understanding September 11" (Viking) by TIME reporter Mitch Frank...
...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...