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...from the same period a year earlier, lifting Acer's global market share to 11.9%, up from 10.1% the year before. In notebook computers - Acer's speciality - the company claimed 17% of the world market in the first quarter, enough to make it the world's second largest notebook maker behind Hewlett-Packard. Acer earned a net profit of $59.7 million in the first quarter...
...pink chiffon dresses. The fitting rooms were so crammed that some patrons tried on skirts and shirts in front of mirrors on the store floor. Crisis? What crisis? In the six months to February, revenues at Primark, an Ireland-based company that is the U.K.'s second largest clothing retailer, surged 18% to $1.8 billion, with same-store sales up 5%. Operating profits, at $200 million, jumped...
...Germans in need of new eyeglasses can have a pair made at any one of hundreds of optical boutiques or discounters. But many prefer to visit an optician at Fielmann. This is partly because Germany's largest optical chain, which sold nearly 50% of the 10.6 million pairs of spectacles purchased in the country last year, promises to match the lowest prices available. A well-known Fielmann TV ad, in classic noir style, shows a busty blonde sauntering into the office of a hard-boiled private eye. "Find an optician cheaper than Fielmann," she implores. "Forget it," the sleuth responds...
...future, perhaps because I'd been covering not just the anti-Syrian Cedar Revolution demonstrations, but also ones organized by Hizballah, which viewed the effort to push Syria out of Lebanon as a rearguard attack against the anti-Israeli resistance. It seemed to me that leaving Hizballah, Lebanon's largest political party and its only armed militia, out of calculations for the future was unwise. "Do you ever have any contact with Hizballah these days?" I asked the official. Not only is it illegal for U.S. government officials to have dealings with terrorist organizations, she said, but the photographs...
...South Africa Underground Tragedy The bodies of at least 61 illegal miners were discovered in an unused shaft owned by South Africa's Harmony Mining Co., the world's fifth largest gold producer. The incident, one of the worst in the nation's history, highlights the growing problem posed by unauthorized mining operations, which are exploiting thousands of miles of unpoliced tunnels amid high unemployment rates and spiking gold prices...