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Yet consumer giants such as Heinz, Kellogg, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Gillette have also taken a beating, falling more than 30%. The culprits: slowing sales and falling profits. Last Friday soap seller Dial saw its stock slip 22% after the company issued its own earnings warning. Dial is down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Brand City | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

One thing the brands can't offer, though, is growth. Most will be hard pressed to increase sales more than 5%. Sales at Gillette, considered an innovator, actually fell 2% last year, and the company is considering unloading its underperforming stationery and Braun household-appliance divisions. In Battle Creek, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Brand City | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

Yet as BMW shows, hurdles are there to be leaped. Along with the German automaker last year, Ikea, Nestle, Caterpillar, Lucent Technologies, Ford Motor Co., Gillette and Philip Morris quietly added to their investments--nearly all built production plants with local partners, pouring more than half a billion dollars in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In From The Cold | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

That's when Reinert started writing letters and calling everyone--his Congressman, his Senator, the USTR. It was during one of many conversations with a ustr staff member that he was told, in effect, it was his own fault that he had got caught up in the trade war. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Become a Top Banana | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

The Shearson portfolio would have turned $10,000 into $70,341; if invested in the S&P 500, it would have grown to just $49,923, according to the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago's graduate school of business. Incredibly, there were more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Vision, Big Gain | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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