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...luxury-goods manufacturers who ride to couture's rescue. All during couture week, companies like Baccarat, Christofle and Chopard, the high-end watch and jewelry maker, operated around the edges of the runway events, throwing parties and sponsoring venues for young designers who preferred to show their luxe ready-to-wear creations during couture week, when it's easier to attract a good crowd, than during the busier ready-to-wear schedule in March. Chopard was especially visible, offering space to several young designers. Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele, Chopard's co-president, hints that a company like hers might someday launch...
...obsessed with corporate nuptials. Merger mania is back, executives are cashing out and, if history is any guide, investors should be running for cover. A couple of months ago, Kmart and Sears got engaged. Then Nextel and Sprint announced their $35 billion wedding. Johnson & Johnson is buying Guidant, a maker of medical devices, for $24 billion. Two of the splashiest deals came last week: SBC, the Baby Bell based in San Antonio, Texas, looked poised to swallow its former parent, AT&T, in a deal that could top $15 billion. Then Procter & Gamble said it would acquire Gillette...
European airplane maker Airbus has unveiled the world's largest passenger plane, a double-decker behemoth that will seat up to 800 people. The A380 will make its first test flight this spring and begin flying passengers in 2006. But will U.S. airports be ready? No U.S. passenger airline has yet ordered the plane, but three airports--San Francisco's, Los Angeles' LAX and New York's John F. Kennedy--are gearing up for foreign airlines, such as Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines, that have. Some runways and taxiways have to be widened and terminals expanded for the extra passengers. Virgin...
...late October, blood-equipment maker Haemonetics Corp., of Braintree, Mass., invested $5 million in Arryx to help develop a machine that would remove a blood donor's platelets, used for clotting. Under the deal, Haemonetics has agreed to make payments of $7.3 million and $5 million when Arryx hits predetermined development breakthroughs...
...between here and France is that people here eat so much processed food," she says. "It's frightening what's in there." Guiliano herself eats lots of fruits, vegetables and fish. "Leeks and yogurt are my best weapons," she says. Not surprisingly, Guiliano, a director of champagne maker Veuve Clicquot, favors moderate wine drinking with meals...