Word: exports
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...based club whose members meet off-line to exchange tips. Not that he thought the film was that great. "What can I say?" says Choi, "I've got a stake in it." He expects his fund to yield a profit of more than 30% from ticket sales, export revenue, and video and online rights...
...wouldn't be easy to imitate Lincoln. "So much depends on the culture they have built up," says Norman Berg, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School. When Lincoln embarked on an international expansion in the early '90s, it learned the hard way that its system wasn't easy to export; many foreign workers valued perks more than individual advancement...
...week helped volatile Latin American funds rise 2.4%. But the broader story is in Mexico, which with Brazil makes up 90% or so of the region's portfolio. Brazil's stock index is down 14% since January, but as an Evergreen manager says, "Mexico is on a tear." Its export gains and slower but solid growth will drive this fidgety sector through expected summer doldrums...
What American export is hot in Japan these days? Cinnamon buns--big, gooey pastries with an aroma that could send you into insulin shock. In 1999, when Atlanta-based Cinnabon opened its first outlet there, 300 people lined up to buy its buns, says Gregg Kaplan, president of the chain. Rather than try to sell cinnamon buns in Japan on its own, the company partnered with Sugakico, a successful operator of a chain of ramen-noodle restaurants. Two years later, sales are five times as high at Japanese outlets as at those in the U.S. of comparable size and location...
...places, you wouldn't start here. Tupelo is isolated in the hilly, northeastern corner of the poorest and least educated state in the union. If you've ever heard of Tupelo, it's probably as the birthplace of Elvis Presley. It seems an unlikely magnet for foreign investment and export employment. But that's exactly what it has become...