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...million-odd calls to Scoot over the past five months, in marked contrast to the numbers typically racked up by sex searches on Internet-only systems. Besides pizza procurement -- the runaway winner -- other popular query topics up Waterloo way include travel and party locations. In other words, directions to Domino...
Griffith makes the sealant rubber that Daimler-Benz, Volvo, Mack Trucks and other truckmakers use around windshields and under hoods. Laney sees a domino effect: if U.S. companies can't ship their products to Asia, Brazil, Russia or other places in economic turmoil, they won't need trucks to get their products to port. That's why Laney is scaling back, even though orders for new trucks increased in 1998. "We're not spending money on new equipment," he says. And after two years in which Griffith built two new plants and invested some $3.5 million in new manufacturing capacity...
...passions, the truth these days is that Papa John's has been eating everyone else's lunch. The company has nearly doubled its market share in the past two years, to 4.1%--grabbing away business from No. 1 Pizza Hut and No. 3 Little Caesars and battling delivery king Domino's. Papa John's (1997 sales: $868 million) is the only one of the four largest pizza chains whose slice of the pie has grown at double-digit rates over the past five years. Profits? Papa John's earnings jumped 45% last year and are on track for at least...
Schnatter, 36, who gets visibly excited when talking about the sugar-acid ratio in his pizza, which gives Papa John's pies a distinctively sweet flavor, puts simplicity above all else. Pizza Hut offers more variety; Domino's stresses fast delivery; and Little Caesars sells the least expensive pies. Papa John's has no seating, offers just two types of pizza--no salads, sandwiches or buffalo wings--and remakes any pies that rate less than an 8 on the company's 10-point scale. If the cheese shows a single air bubble or the crust is not golden brown...
...went public in 1993. But his demanding manner was not to everyone's taste. No fewer than five top executives, including the company's president, quit in 1995 and 1996, in part because of Schnatter's brusque management style. Says Cheryl Bachelder, executive vice president for marketing at Domino's: "He's flamboyant, highly confident and very impressed with his own success...