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Dalias' first clever move was to enlist a champion with a gold-plated international Rolodex: Michael Feinstein, a senior principal at Atlas Venture in Boston. Before becoming a venture capitalist, Feinstein had been vice president of marketing in charge of global sales at New Oak Communications, a maker of Internet security devices that is now part of Nortel Networks. Through his contacts, Feinstein was able to entice the business-development director of NetOne to visit WaveSmith at its Acton, Mass., headquarters for a demonstration of its new multiservice switch. The product, which transmits data, voice and video in a carrier...
...being distributed by a few carriers in the Southeast. By the end of 1998 it had 5 million subscribers; last year it reached 15 million. Despite the industry's advertising slump, ad revenue grew 18% last year, to $8.6 million. Says Daryl Daigre, vice president of marketing for Mossy Oak, a camouflage-and-hunting-accessories chain: "They deliver our ultimate consumer to us." While larger networks are queasy about showing the actual felling of animals, the Outdoor Channel shows the "kill shot"--but tastefully. It avoids blood and guts unless skinning and butchering are the topics, as they were...
Leading a pack of bargain hunters and curious passersby on a tour through the bowels of Kirkland, Eddleston peddled oak coat racks, metal tables and muck-marked rugs students had donated for the auction...
...that account for the biggest volumes," says Dairien. "We're going to have to completely rethink the way we regulate our production." A report to the French Senate this month proposes radical solutions, like mixing the produce of different regions and vintages in single-grape-variety wines and adding oak chips to vats as a flavoring agent. The aim: encourage strong brands with consistent tastes that can take on the Jacob's Creeks of this world...
...lane road linking the southern French village of Ramatuelle to the sparkling Mediterranean waters off Saint-Tropez snakes down through an idyllic jumble of twisted holm oak trees, jagged white rock, sunbaked farmhouses and acres of lush green vineyards. But this scenic stretch of Route Départementale 61 could also be lined with grave markers and memorials to drivers like Francis Manzoni. One February afternoon, a local youth who'd been drinking attempted to pass another car on a curve, lost control and hit Manzoni's auto head on - killing him instantly. The accident was iconic of a plague...