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...most measures, Minong, Wis., is anything but cosmopolitan. It is a town of 520 people in the north woods, too small to have a movie theater or even a stoplight. Yet it is the home of a genuine multinational: Link Snacks, Inc., which rings up export sales of as much as $12 million a year to more than a dozen countries and stations sales representatives in Tokyo, Moscow and Regina, Saskatchewan, as well as Minneapolis, Minn. Not bad, considering 1) the company was in Chapter 11 only 10 years ago; and 2) its products--meat snacks, especially beef jerky...
Link has been prospering domestically too. It says total sales will come close to $100 million this year. In 1994 it bought out Dakota Trail, Inc., adding a 50-worker plant in Alpena, S.D., to the Minong factory, which employs 325 workers. Export sales are growing faster, though, and the company is eyeing Costa Rica, Malaysia and Nicaragua as potential new markets. Within two years, it expects exports to account for 25% of total sales. All of which Jay Link sometimes finds hard to believe. Says he: "For us to come out of a town in the north woods...
...Japan Inc. model, which has been adopted to varying degrees across East Asia, relies on the body politic's accepting the dictates of a meritocracy chosen from society's best and brightest. When the technocrats decreed that the economy needed vast amounts of capital to invest in development, the citizens did not protest, even when cajoled into saving upwards of a fifth of their incomes. On this ocean of funds, the economic mandarins launched one industrial battleship after another, directing banks to back companies in industries that offered the most potential for growth. Profits be damned too--market share...
Eight consulting firms, ranging from industry giant BT Alex. Brown to Boston-based Charles River Associates, Inc., along with Harvard's Ph.D. Program in Health Policy attended the fair, sponsored by the new undergraduate group Exploring Policy in Health Care (EPIHC...
Repetitive Strain Injury by Dr. Emil Pascarelli, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York and RSI Action Group's website, http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/rsi/