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...company is pushing Kit Kat as its answer to the Mars bar, the world's most popular candy. Last year Nestle started producing Kit Kats in Russia and Bulgaria for Eastern Europe. A Latin American launch is slated this year. Kit Kat is already selling briskly in Japan, Australia and India, and a relaunch is under way in Thailand...
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...
...routes are far cheaper to operate per passenger mile than, say, the Richmond, Va., to Memphis, Tenn., flight that domestic airlines provide. While profit margins for all Asian carriers are relatively high, SIA's has been 50% higher, according to an industry analyst, than Qantas' and double that of Japan Airlines...
...probably not a bad idea that Del Vecchio is finding growth in new places?like abroad. Brooks has had stores in Japan for years but now is breaking into new markets, from Paris to Seoul to Santiago to London. "We want to grow in a healthy way," says Eraldo Poletto, Brooks' president of strategic development and international business. And moving into countries where people have shown interest by ordering from the Brooks website is thought to be sounder than loading the U.S. market with 100 more stores...
...question. At best, Andelman proposes an analogy between America’s contemporary attempts to remake the world in its own image and the country’s 1919 efforts to do the same. Then, as now, the moralistic mindset of the United States prevented it from comprehending what Japan, China, Iran, Yugoslavia, and other nations truly needed for peace. So, the uninspiring implication is, proceed with caution.Ultimately, Andelman’s only meaningful insight is that international politics cannot be conducted without extensive knowledge of other nations’ religions, allegiances, needs, hopes, and histories. Of course...