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...Electronics With disposable incomes and a penchant for cutting-edge gadgets, youngsters are a key market for firms like electronic-goods maker Beijing Golden Global View Co. "Unlike other electronics companies that have a celebrity praising a product," says Zhang Weimin, project manager at the firm, "we decided to sell our products by using cool, individualistic young people." It helps to offer the right gear. Beijing Golden Global View is expanding its product line from electronic dictionaries to hipper stuff such as digital cameras and MP3 players...
...another, something has to change, and fast, because right now the on-ice product indicates that somewhere the transmission between coaches and players is broken. There’s simply no other way to explain an 8-11-2 record when the Crimson has 12 NHL draft picks and, with essentially three exceptions, the same roster that won 22 games last year...
Piracy is so rampant in parts of Asia that even the pirates have problems with piracy. In Taipei, a copy of Samurai purchased over the phone for $1.76 features the logo "HLW production team/Production: KC" in the upper right-hand corner of the image. The group attached its pirate mark so it can police its own product, speculates Michael Ellis, vice president of Asia-Pacific antipiracy operations for the M.P.A.A. "From a criminal point of view, if someone is taking away your market share, that's a problem." (The Chinese-character subtitles were not always of professional quality. When...
...where in 2002 it accounted for about 41% of that country's estimated $90 million black hair-care market. But L'Oreal wants to have as big an impact in other African markets. Oddly enough, this is where the U.S. comes in. Africans, says Evrard, "believe that if [a product] is good for the highly demanding U.S. black consumer, it might also be better for them...
Move over, Botox. Hyaluronan is the new rejuvenator. Found in the umbilical cord, some bacteria and the red combs of roosters, hyaluronan reduces inflammation in arthritic knees and prevents scar tissue after surgery. It's also what makes up the gel Restylane, a Medicis product recently approved by the FDA to plump wrinkles around the nose and mouth. (Botox is used to erase crow's-feet, furrowed brows and other frown lines.) Europeans and Canadians have been using Restylane for years. Another wrinkle buster, Hylaform, manufactured by Genzyme, is awaiting FDA approval...