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...accommodate busy schedules, forward-thinking companies like My Girlfriend's Kitchen are trying to improve lives with a retail experience that's personally rewarding. Why crank out dinner alone when you can whip up something delicious and make new friends? Inviting consumers to join an in-store social network is proving so appealing that meal-assembly kitchens are popping up across the country. Corporate giants such as Nokia and Ikea are also creating retail communities, offering shoppers services and entertainment that mesh into their lives, at times blurring the boundaries between retail and reality...
Nokia has recently tapped into that trend to build on its brand. At its flagship store in Moscow, customers can use display phones to send images and messages and, eventually, to connect with people globally through its mobile gaming network. As more flagships open around the world, shoppers will be able to join a live gaming community by directly competing against scores posted by players at other stores. "Learn to get close to your consumer; it's going to keep you alive," says Cliff Crosbie, director of global retail and trade marketing for Nokia...
...Southern California, he founded a modest contemporary label named after the saying bon chic, bon genre, Parisian slang for "good style, good attitude." Today he is chairman, CEO and designer of BCBG Max Azria Group, a $1 billion fashion powerhouse with 16 brands and a retail and wholesale network of more than 5,200 global points of sale, including 320 boutiques, some of them in locales as far-flung as Guam and Doha...
While bits and pieces about Binalshibh and K.S.M. arrived from many sources, the key to capturing the former was information passed to the CIA by the Emir of Qatar--information taken from the files of an al-Jazeera reporter (the Emir owns the network) who secretly visited both terrorists in the Karachi apartment where Binalshibh was subsequently captured in September 2002. As for K.S.M., the key was a cooperative source who met with K.S.M., summarily called the CIA, guided agents to the terrorist's safe house, then collected his $25 million reward and is now safely relocated, with his extended...
...then there is Warren himself, who by virtue of his energy, hypereloquence and example (he's working in Rwanda with government, business and church sectors) has become a spokesman for church activism. "The church is the largest network in the world," he says. "If you have 2.3 billion people who claim to be followers of Christ, that's bigger than China...