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...platform, or the smaller 25. That's why he thinks eventually Rover will need to fall into the arms of one of the big boys, like Volkswagen, Fiat or a Japanese manufacturer. Can Rover beat the odds? Moves like last month's acquisition of the Italian sports-car maker Qvale Automotive, which will help the company launch a new MG sports car next year, show an aggressiveness that is winning management some key fans. "We're increasingly positive about the future, especially since [this] company was on the brink of the abyss a year ago," says John Mantle, owner...
...million agreement between these two strong-willed partners makes both sides nervous. Eighteen months in the making, it links behemoth AOL, the most visible symbol of American new media prowess, with Legend, a government-nurtured start-up that has grown to become China's most successful computer maker...
...could scarcely have found a more muscular partner in China than Legend. The computer maker dominates the country's home-PC market, with a 40% share. (Sales totaled $2.2 billion last year.) Legend's chief financial officer, Mary Ma, the company's main negotiator on the deal, says the Chinese firm initiated the courtship. Legend, she says, was convinced that, with the WTO's open market pending, it needed a sophisticated foreign partner to help differeniate itself in the market...
BODY SMARTS CRUNCH BARS Muscling into PowerBar territory, Viagra maker Pfizer has fortified these chocolate and fruit-chew "nutraceuticals" with as much iron as a cup of spinach, as much fiber as a slice of bread and--surprise!--more flavor than a piece of cardboard...
...first glance, Lincoln Electric, the $1 billion Cleveland, Ohio, maker of arc-welding equipment, seems like every other U.S. corporation trying to weather the current economic downturn--heartless. It is slashing overtime, cutting temps and applying an elaborate rating system to assess employee performance. But no matter how bad things get, or how low they score, workers at Lincoln won't flunk...