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...holiday season, resulted in shortages of the hottest toys. To woo investors back, each made forays into electronics and software, with disastrous results. Hasbro, after losing $200 million on an interactive division and website, sold both ventures for $100 million early this year. Mattel in 1999 bought educational-software maker The Learning Co. for $3.5 billion, only to unload it this year for an "undisclosed sum," which analysts say was virtually...
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, gifts that celebrate the American spirit have been arriving in U.S. stores from around the world. Christmas-ornament maker Christopher Radko's rendition of the World Trade Center, called Heroes All ($34, right), was made in Poland of mouth-blown glass. Frederick's of Hollywood's America the Beautiful thong ($5) was manufactured in Hong Kong and printed in the U.S. Estee Lauder is selling an America the Beautiful compact that comes in enamel ($40) or encrusted with crystals ($75). The latter model is made in the U.S. using crystals from Austria. Some have questioned...
Creating your own private exchange, however, can easily cost $5 million or more. One alternative is the route taken by Diebold, a Canton, Ohio, maker of safes and ATMs, which has hired FreeMarkets to conduct online auctions for it. FreeMarkets acts as a corporate matchmaker, combining the services of a broker, an auctioneer and a software designer. FreeMarkets seeks out suppliers, ensures they can meet specifications, then invites them to either participate in a real-time auction online or submit sealed bids...
...HENRY MCKINNELL, 58, has run marathons and triathlons. Now he runs PFIZER, the world's largest prescription drug maker, and serves as chairman of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a powerful trade group.The new threat of bioterrorism, the developing world's demands for less expensive medicines and the CEO's usual fight to stay ahead of the competition make up the legs of McKinnell's professional triathlon. With eight drugs that each earn more than $1 billion a year, McKinnell's Pfizer will be ahead of the pack for quite a while...
...must say that I was pleased to see that the FM psychic and Ms. Russell disagreed; one predicted I would end up with three (she began by “feeling” one, but then went straight to three!) screaming brats before I had wrangled my baby-sauce maker into actually saying “I do” while the other urged me to resolve to say that small and scary sentence within the next few months...