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There was a time, only about 15 years ago, when David Ji, co-founder of Apex Digital, the top-selling maker and importer of DVD players, couldn't rent a movie. When he was a graduate student and part-time house painter, Ji says, "I wanted a VCR, but I couldn't afford...
Among the firms Root surveyed, the usual U.S. suspects--such as Dell Computer, GE, Pfizer, Microsoft and Wal-Mart--beat the index and passed all his tests. But so did some less predictable, smaller multinationals such as footwear and apparel maker Timberland and home builder KB Home. Says Root: "Profitable foreign growers come from all walks of life...
...While India's telecom pond is still small, Mittal, a former bicycle parts maker, has used first-mover advantage to become a big fish. Bharti has the largest market share nationally, at 28%, and his lead is widening by the day. In September, two out of three consumers joining mobile phone services chose his Airtel network, which covers an area with a potential 600 million customers?a market nearly twice the size of the U.S. He has even branched into domestic long-distance services, and this year Bharti became the first private company in India to launch an international long...
...director at the firm, "but we knew we had to take a shot." Right away Bharti went head-to-head with India's industrial titans. The other Delhi operator was controlled by Essar Group, a steel-making giant. But Mittal found ways to compete. He convinced European telecom equipment-maker Ericsson to supply Bharti's network on credit; he promised to pay "when the customers are happy," he says. Bharti (the name is derived from the Hindi word for Indian) expanded its distribution network for prepaid customers, a large part of the market in India, to allow drugstores, corner groceries...
Famous Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami was to have presented his latest movie Ten on Oct. 7, as part of a tour begining at the Lincoln Center Film Festival, but was denied a U.S. visa following the Sept. 11 attacks. The HFA’s advocacy on Kiarostami’s behalf left U.S. immigration officials unmoved...