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...citizens in our line of fire." Western companies have grown used to working with the threat of attack. But the dangers are increasing. U.S. oil executive Ricky Wiginton, 51, was shot dead in Port Harcourt by assailants riding a motorbike as he drove to work at drilling-equipment maker Baker Hughes last week, and a day later three oil workers with Italian oil contractor Saipem were kidnapped in the same city but later released. mend says it was not responsible for either act, but whoever is doing the killing has spooked the oil companies. Shell, which...
French businessman Malamine Koné is talking a big game. A very big game. The founder and CEO of sportswear maker Airness is explaining his goal of swiftly boosting his company's 2005 predominantly French sales of $150 million to rival those of global giant Nike's $14.7 billion in 2005. Sound a touch fanciful? Don't tell him that. "You know where Puma was five years ago? Deeply troubled," Koné says of the now surging German-American sportswear group, whose sales last year exceeded $2 billion. "And six years ago, Airness scarcely existed. We didn't get this far this...
...part to hold off Nike. MLS is close to a new television-rights deal with ABC/ESPN, one in which it will actually get money for its games, instead of having to buy the time from the networks and hope to sell it. And earlier this year Red Bull, maker of the popular energy drink, bought the New York City franchise from Anschutz Entertainment Group for an investment that will top $100 million...
...Gulfport, Miss., are being diverted to other ports, with Chiquita sending boats to Freeport, Texas, and Port Everglades, Fla. "If volume is affected, our customers will have to raise prices," says Chiquita spokesman Michael Mitchell. At least hot-sauce fans can rest assured: Avery Island, La.--based McIlhenny, maker of Tabasco sauce, claims production is running smoothly and all its employees are safe...
...spread that included a ham or a roast, corn bread, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, lima beans, fruit pies and bottomless flagons of iced tea. If the future President arrived early enough, he even got to help turn the crank on the ice cream maker...