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...million-can recall.) Nor did he burnish his company's image by failing to promote Carl Ware, senior vice president for African operations, Coke's top black executive, during a high-level shuffle in October--an omission that sent Ware to the exits even as four past and present black employees were suing Coca-Cola for alleged discrimination...
...seems to many analysts to be an ever desperate bid to increase revenues, one of Ivester's most recent moves was to hike the price of Coke's concentrate by a steep 7.7%. In effect, that represents a penalty for the company's cost-conscious bottling affiliates. In the past, Coke has offset such cost increases by funneling hundreds of millions of dollars in financial assistance to its key bottlers. But bottlers expressed outrage at last month's move, which they feel indicates Atlanta's willingness to transfer to them the burden of Goizueta's and Ivester's growth plans...
...letter to Coke's 30,000 employees last week, Ivester pointed to the "soul-searching" that preceded what was clearly a painful decision to abdicate the company throne. In an uncharacteristically melancholy tone, he exhorted the troops to look not toward the travails of the past but the "opportunities" of the future...
...past three months, Washington--mostly in the persons of Ross and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger--has been acting as a secret go-between for Barak and Assad, working to restart the Golan Heights talks, which broke off four months after the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. But until last week, Assad had refused to come to the table unless Barak first agreed to a promise the Syrian leader claims Rabin made: to withdraw Israeli forces to the line separating the armies of the two countries just before the Six-Day War. That line would put Syria...
CAFFEINE HIGH Think price before you savor that tasty cup of joe after this season's holiday feast. With a recent drought threatening next year's crop in Brazil, the wholesale price of coffee has shot up some 80% in the past few months, from a five-year low of 80[cents] per lb. in early October. Last week, as rains drenched Brazil, the price dropped a bit. Still, supermarket brands like Folgers and Maxwell House, which cut the price of a 13-oz. can by a dime in August, are jacking it up by 30[cents]. For the moment...