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...Main Street, and certainly not for its relevance to family life," says Neal. Telco giants have other motivations for not aggressively courting kid customers. "They want to avoid looking like Joe Camel and preying on children," said Roger Entner, a Boston-based wireless analyst with the Ovum research firm. "So they haven't done much more in this area other than create family plans...
...Haan ended up with more than enough money to bankroll his golden years when he decided to retire and sell Saga Group, his family's business, in late 2004. The British travel, media and financial-services company that targets older consumers attracted several major bidders, with London private-equity firm Charterhouse ultimately paying $2.4 billion. Not bad for what De Haan's father started 53 years earlier as a modest operator of guest hotels and tours in the English seaside resort of Folkestone...
...Chinese government released a list of 10 of last year's most egregious food-safety cases-everything from selling homemade beer in brand-name bottles to making edible gelatin from OLD LEATHER. The top spot went to a firm in Jiangsu province busted for adulterating its nationally sold nutritional supplement, supposedly made from silkworm chrysalis. The real ingredients? Dried pig's blood and chicken feathers...
...direct divestment from two Chinese oil companies, PetroChina and Sinopec. But as of December 31, 2006—the date of Harvard’s most recent filing—the University maintained indirect holdings worth $13.4 million in these companies as well as Petronas, a Malaysian oil firm linked to Sudan, through its investment in funds managed by the British bank Barclays...
...filing shows no current ownership of either Morgan Stanley’s or the Blackstone Group’s funds that invest in Indian companies. Harvard’s previous investment in these two funds had represented an approximately $320,000 investment in Bharat, another firm that invests in Sudanese energy...