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...common cause is Reebok International Ltd., Fireman's shoe company, for which Iverson happens to be top pitchman. And the combination is just one reason why Reebok, written off two years ago as a dead maker of fad sneakers, is back. Since signing Iverson, Fireman has pulled down endorsement agreements from women's tennis giant Venus Williams, sponsored two seasons of Survivor and inked a deal with the National Football League to be its exclusive supplier of uniforms and sideline apparel. But the real victory came this month when Fireman and NBA commissioner David Stern announced a 10-year arrangement...
...shelf cycle doesn't cut it in this industry. Tokyo girls, instead of company stylists, helm this multibillion-dollar market. "Once we put the shoe on the shelf, our customers and staff make suggestions and modifications to it," says Mutsumi Tanabe, the thirtysomething managing director of Kobe Leather Cloth Ltd., which owns Esperanza, the most popular shoe store inside 109. "So we remake the shoes, and keep on changing the shoe to meet the desires of our staff and customers." A servile and laborious process, but one that opened wallets across Japan: Esperanza's sales reached $95 million last year...
...chance when he met Jiang Mianheng, eldest son of Jiang Zemin. The young Jiang attended Philadelphia's Drexel University, where he earned a Ph.D in physics, after which he founded Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. The firm got stakes in the city's biggest infrastructure projects, including its airport and the broadband network, and that established Jiang the younger as Shanghai's kingpin of information technology. He reportedly met Wong in 1995, during a visit to the U.S. The first thing they found in common was their birthdays. Then they discovered matching ambitions, and began talking deals...
...much of what makes Gilbert & Sullivan entertaining, semester after semester after semester after semester (you get the idea), is the richness of commentary and satire found in all of their work. And this production of Utopia, Ltd. (one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s lesser known works), manages to work very well with the material provided. Half of the humor is from the absurdity of situations like despotism tempered by dynamite or governance transformed into limited liability. But the other half comes from the sneaking suspicion in the audience that there is some bit of truth reflected in such...
...UTOPIA LTD., or THE FLOWERS OF PROGRESS...