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Patrick Ricard, boss of the french drinks giant that bears his name, enjoys a glass of pastis before lunch. But at a recent breakfast in his private dining room overlooking the Eiffel Tower, he was strictly a coffee man, despite having just pulled off a deal worth celebrating with something stronger. In March, Pernod Ricard stunned its rivals by landing one of the biggest prizes in the drinks sector: Absolut, the world's leading premium vodka, whose acquisition, Ricard concedes, was "a bit of a coup...
...West Hollywood sun is beating down on the patio, a cold wind is blowing through, and Richard Branson is hosting a long lunch poolside at the Sunset Marquis hotel. "It's an old rock-'n'-roll hotel, which has--it's gone out of fashion a little bit, I think," he says. The Rolling Stones and U2 are regulars; Courtney Love wrote a love letter to Kurt Cobain in one of the suites. It's exactly the setting you would expect from the self-styled "rebel billionaire," the man who signed the Sex Pistols and the Stones to Virgin Records...
...Angeles to celebrate the launch of V Australia, which will begin flying from Sydney to Los Angeles on Dec. 15. With that last piece of the puzzle in place, he proclaims, "I can finally fly all the way around the world on a Virgin plane!" Over lunch, he and the Australians hatch plans to promote it with a classic Virgin publicity stunt, inevitably involving an appearance by Sir Richard...
...America, for example, plan to share a first-class lounge at LAX and thus reduce overhead. Virgin America, V Australia and Virgin Blue can decide on a whim to allow some of their flight attendants to trade cities for a year or compare notes--as their CEOs did during lunch with Branson in Los Angeles--on in-flight-ordering software or customer feedback on the latest Embraer jets. Coordinated online booking among the airlines is the next logical step. The lesson? When your brand transcends borders, building a global network can be as easy as talking across the patio table...
...first chapter attest, is not all that fictional), but that the characters’ thoughts are so relentlessly foregrounded that the rest of the work cowers behind them, reduced to obscurity by the intellectual blizzard. Gessen at times nails the details, as when he describes the standard Harvard lunch: “a huge bowl of green peas...a chicken parm sandwich, and...a cranberry-grapefruit mixture, which I’d patented.” But these glimpses of a fully realized literary world are all too often overshadowed by his characters’ ideational monologues...