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...transitional bumps by defining a strategy and sticking with it: promote higher-end products and services in cleaner, better-organized stores. Nardelli has a laboratory for these ideas in the Home Depot across the street from his 22nd-floor office. (He often drives in on weekends--sometimes on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle.) Floor displays explain big-ticket items like lawn mowers and washing machines. Instead of paint cans lined up on shelves, a "color-solutions center" showcases Home Depot's color-matching technology...
Mulqueen picked up management ideas from Harley-Davidson and McDonald's. Following visits to these companies, he and his senior staff created rigorous training requirements for the agency heads affiliated with the food bank. His team is launching Pantry University, a program aimed at developing consistency in service and image. Staff members at 600 agencies, including shelters, soup kitchens and food pantries, will be expected to complete courses in food safety, nutrition, finance and information technology. Says Mulqueen: "We need accountability in the system...
...single motor scooter driving through Paris in the middle of the night can wake up as many as 200,000 people"? Oh, to be awakened like that in Paris! Anything would be better than the Harley-Davidson hell where I live. MARK JONAS Columbia, Calif...
...American Woodmark. It makes replacement kitchens sold through Home Depot and Lowe's. We own Whirlpool. It has washing machines priced three times what a standard washing machine is, and they are selling fast. There's a big difference in margins at the top end. This past recession Harley-Davidson sales didn't fall off, and Winnebago came through in great shape. We own both of those stocks...
...motorcycle industry has just completed its 11th straight year of growth. Sales were up some 6% in the U.S., powered by what should be a record second half for hogmaker Harley-Davidson. In Europe, Italian manufacturer Ducati sold nearly 7,000 of its $10,000 bikes, a company record. At the other end of the price scale, sales of Hero Honda, India's biggest motorcycle maker, are up 15.3% this year. What's powering the growth? In the U.S., "baby boomers are attracted to the allure of Harley-Davidson," says Ed Aaron, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets...