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...handle suggested by someone in the Oslo office. But now that its creative work on Enron's books has turned Arthur Andersen into a global pariah, the consulting firm's name change looks like a stroke of genius. And it's being emulated. PricewaterhouseCoopers--whose accounting work for K Mart and Tyco has been criticized--is spinning off PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting in August. And so eager is the new firm to separate from its parent that it has announced it will rename itself "Monday." Why Monday? CEO Greg Brenneman says it's a "real word, concise, recognizable, global...
...combined family and production values. They came up with an animated video based on the story of Daniel, Where's God When I'm S-Scared? It sold almost exclusively in Christian bookstores, but now more than half of VeggieTales' sales come from such temples to Mammon as Wal-Mart and Target...
Facing increased competition from the likes of Wal-Mart and Target, Sears CEO Alan Lacy hopes that offering Lands' End products in Sears stores will help attract new, more upscale customers (particularly women) while encouraging regular patrons who buy only automotive goods, appliances and tools to add sweaters and shirts to their shopping list. Sears plans to stock only selected goods from the Lands' End catalog, starting with a few items in time for the 2002 holiday shopping season...
...risk. Start-ups like LynkUs are looking for established partners willing to share their customers. Big firms like WebMD are trying to legitimately absorb new ideas from start-ups. Manufacturers like Ford are sharing research with partsmakers like Lear and consulting them on product designs. Stores like Wal-Mart are giving their suppliers minute-by-minute sales data and in return asking all about the suppliers' inventory, capacity and customer lists...
...foreign businesses to appease the World Trade Organization, tussles over details like licensing have blocked Carrefour's bid to win approval for stores in Beijing. In February, Guangdong province in southern China introduced tax cuts and other incentives to aid domestic retailers. Seven Chinese chains?including one called Wu-Mart?have drafted a plan to jointly open 1,500 hypermarkets and other stores over the next five years to compete with the expansionary interlopers. "Compared with the foreigners, Wu-Mart is more aware of the Chinese people and their consumption customs," says Wu Jianzhong, Wu-Mart's vice president...