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...hotly contested emerging car market, Hyundai's joint venture with Beijing Automotive sold more cars than any other automaker in the first two months of this year. In fact, with a compounded annual revenue growth of 20% over the past five years, Hyundai has been the world's fastest-growing major automaker since 1999, according to Lehman Bros. Hyundai is "putting pressure on everybody," says Rob Hinchliffe, an auto analyst at UBS. Indeed, even Toyota vice chairman Fujio Cho has acknowledged the blur that is getting bigger in his rearview mirror. "Hyundai has quality and prices that have caught customers...
Videotapes of business books are among the fastest-growing offspring of the VCR revolution. More than 50 of these taped tomes are now for sale at prices ranging from $475 to about $1,500. The works include such management best sellers as In Search of Excellence, The One Minute Manager and What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School. A typical tape is 60 to 90 minutes long, and some come with instructional pamphlets...
...your computer underperforming? Online activities such as downloading music, installing programs and accidentally opening strange e-mails can crimp the efficiency of even the fastest machines. Here are five steps for keeping your Windows clear...
...whether 10 Cane will reach Europe, but rum is one of the world's best-selling spirits, with annual sales in the U.S. of about $4.6 billion. And Europeans have shown a thirst for quality rum, especially Havana Club, the Cuba-produced tipple that's been the fastest-growing brand in recent years for another French firm, Pernod Ricard. (That company also said last week that it was making a $10 billion pitch, along with Fortune Brands, for the England-based Allied Domecq.) The only loser might be Coca-Cola: If you spend that much on rum, do you really...
...Clear Channel, a major funder of Bush and the Republicans, isn't a liberal philanthropy. It's picking up "progressive radio" because this is the fastest growing format in the country; and that is because Air America has proved it attracts listeners and advertisers. From an original audience of 120,000, the network more than tripled to 400,000 within three months, and now, according to the latest Arbitron ratings, reaches 2.137 million listeners a week, with 129,900 tuning in for the average quarter hour. Now and again, at least in New York City, Franken's midday show...