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...plot thickened like old toothpaste when another element surfaced. Douglass had served as editor-in-chief of the Colgate Oral Care Report since 1997, which according to its website “is supported by the Colgate-Palmolive Company for oral care professionals...
...Python writing sessions sometimes deteriorated into skirmishes between the C's (Cambridge alums Cleese, Chapman and Idle) and the O's (Oxonians Jones and Palin and Occidental College graduate Gilliam). It wasn't so much a clash of school ties as a debate of which was the more important element in their comedy: the verbal or the visual. It was also, Gilliam would have you believe, a tussle between the queen bees in the first group and the worker bees in the second...
...feel that what we have learned over time is a big asset for the company," says Markus Langes-Swarovski, 32, an executive-board member who oversees branding and communication and is a great-great-grandson of the company's founder, Daniel Swarovski. "Protecting your know-how is one element of showing appreciation for what you've achieved...
Langes-Swarovski argues that crystal should not be considered a mere pedestrian trim. "It's more of an expressive element than a zipper or a button. In all the various creative disciplines, whether it's fashion or interior design, crystal has a role of amplifying creative expression," he says. "With Liberace or in the late '90s, crystal was sometimes a metaphor for superficiality because of this bling-bling element." Today, however, company executives talk about the "poetry of precision" and how to take founder Daniel Swarovski's original ideas to new levels...
Malka also got production and shipping in order at a time when technology had begun to offer consumers other options. "As the market changes, if you don't change, you die. Demand planning has changed aggressively in the last few years. Every element of your design and supply chain has to be geared towards speed-to-market tactics," he says. "We're one of the few in the U.S. market at our level capable of reacting to fashion the way we do because we've put our machine together that way. That means quick decision making, being able to control...