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...Switzerland, on Lake Geneva. But it has long outgrown its Swiss roots and is today perhaps the most multinational of multinationals. Its products are available in almost every nation in the world, and its executive board is made up of two Americans, two Austrians, a Briton, a Dutchman, a German, a Mexican, two Spaniards and a Swede. Yet its corporate culture remains firmly grounded in the Swiss tradition, favoring modesty and consensual change over American-style brashness. Joe Weller, 57, the head of Nestle USA, calls it a "global company with a Germanic personality." And Brabeck nurtures "the Nestle spirit...
Unlike Coca-Cola's, Kit Kat's formula is different almost everywhere. A Russian Kit Kat is a fraction of an ounce smaller than a Bulgarian one, and the chocolate is coarser and not as sweet as that in a German Kit Kat. In Japan, strawberry-flavored Kit Kat is all the rage. Each of these product variations is the result of thorough market research on local tastes. "There is no global consumer for the food-and-beverage business. This is a deep belief we have," Brabeck says...
...Australian can be the head of state of Australia. That role is reserved for the King or Queen of England, by definition a foreigner, and not even an elected foreigner: the office of the Australian head of state remains purely hereditary, open only to a small clan of Anglo-German squillionaires known as the Windsor family. This appreciably narrows the field of talent...
...When German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy met in Berlin on Monday, a major issue on their agenda was European immigration. While Sarkozy and Merkel were facing some critical questions from students of a local high school - one 18-year old girl, for instance, questioned the German Chancellor about the absence of immigrants in her cabinet - German foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Bernhard Kouchner turned the official occasion into a multicultural house party...
...small backyard recording studio in the Berlin neighborhood of Neukölln, known for its large, mainly Turkish, immigrant population, the two ministers joined forces with 23-year-old German Turkish singer Muhabbet to record the pro-immigration hymn Deutschland. Senior politicians rarely visit the troubled neighborhood, much less show up to sing a duet. But if the two men in suits were feeling awkward, they certainly didn't let it show. Steinmeier smiled and grooved to the music - a mixture of Turkish folk and R&B which Muhabbet calls "R 'n' Besk" - while Kouchner rhythmically snapped his fingers...