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...past few years, Haier has quietly become the world's sixth largest home-appliance maker. Based in the coastal city of Qingdao and led by a quality-obsessed 52-year-old CEO, Zhang Riumin, Haier has factories in Asia, Europe and the U.S., which produce "white goods" from washing machines to microwaves, along with an array of consumer products such as cell phones, TVs and PC peripherals. Global sales topped $7 billion last year, while profits neared $100 million. The company has been publicly traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange since...
During the previous year, while working as CEO of industrial battery maker Exide, Lutz started Cunningham Motors, to produce a racy, V12 coupe for the enthusiasts who otherwise would buy a Ferrari for a cool $250,000. Fortunately for Lutz, GM in December announced it would become a major Cunningham investor...
Need a gray shoebox? Call Tim Shetler, marketing vice president of TimesTen, a software maker based in Mountain View, Calif. He has had stacks of them in his office ever since Sept. 11, when he decided that sending out surprise packages was no longer a great gimmick to advertise TimesTen's database software. He was right. Within weeks the anthrax letters made even plain white envelopes look sinister...
Bill Fraine, a vice president of the B2B software maker Commerce One, has abandoned snail mail for now. "After Sept. 11, we thought about how to get in touch with people," he says. "Normally we would have used direct mail. But I don't think people are opening their mail." So Fraine decided instead to rely on telemarketing and the Internet. Now sales reps from Commerce One call prospective customers and invite them to log onto a website at a given date and time and join a conference call. After they watch a slide presentation or video clips, they...
...composer had no love for him. This was Harry Warren, the Italian-born song-plugger who became Hollywood's top song-maker. In 1944, during the Allied air assault on Germany, Warren snapped, "They bombed the wrong Berlin." Edward Jablonski, Berlin's biographer and a confidant for many years, attributes the slur to jealousy "at a time when Warren's own Hollywood career was in decline." This is way off: Warren had five #1 songs in the 40s (including "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe"); Berlin had only one (all right, it was "White Christmas...