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BRIEFS A4 Nike in Thailand; woe for the COO; women get tough; more flights to Europe...
...high-end maternity.' I couldn't stop thinking that if I could just show these clothes directly to my customer without a middleman, she would get it." The female intuition paid off. Today the $10 million business of Liz Lange includes three stores as well as licensed lines with Nike and Target. In the meantime, she has spawned a phalanx of imitators, with stores from Barneys New York to the Gap turning out their own maternity collections...
...grooming center for your dog. Hotels don't come any more idiosyncratic than Tokyo's newly refurbished Claska, and that's a credit to its designers, Tei Shuwa of Intentionallies (best known for their line of cooking appliances) and British design gurus Tomato (whose clients range from Nike to MTV). Remodeled from a 1960s business hotel, Claska has become the talk of Tokyo , which until now didn't have a world-class boutique hotel. Claska matches the capital's sense of style with its retro-minimalist interiors and array of unexpected amenities, including art galleries and a bookstore. There...
LEBRON JAMES When he made his NBA debut in October, the 18-year-old Cleveland Cavalier faced empyrean expectations and a crush of journalists. Not only was he the No. 1 draft pick, plucked straight from high school, but he had already signed a $90 million deal with Nike. The 6-ft. 8-in. James offered a respite from the sordid drama of former boy wonder Kobe Bryant, who faces rape charges. And despite all the attention, James has maintained his game and his poise...
...indicted in New York City, the chairman of Norway's Statoil resigned amid bribery charges and a former chief executive and two senior officials of France's Elf Aquitaine - now part of Total - were convicted in Paris, all for separate corruption-related offenses. Unlike consumer-products companies such as Nike, which moved relatively quickly to deal with allegations of unethical labor practices in the mid-1990s, Big Oil long resisted calls to clean up its act. BP and Shell were the first to change. In Shell's case, the firm was shaken by two scandals in quick succession: the execution...