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...Harbin Brewery. SABMiller, A-B's nemesis (formed in July 2002 when South African Breweries bought out the Wisconsin-based Miller Brewing Company), retaliated by declaring that it would launch a $391 million hostile takeover bid for Harbin. The prize is a company that made a profit of just $15 million last year but that offers a coveted entr?e into the beer-loving northeast of China...
...since the government stepped up its attacks on civilians last summer; according to Human Rights Watch, in one instance Arab militants loaded 136 villagers into army trucks, forced them to kneel, and shot them. "They say: 'You are the slaves to the Arabs, and you are born for the profit of the Arabs,'" says refugee Abakar Ismail Ahmad, 57. "If you're black and edu-cated, you're suspected of being a rebel, and they shoot you." When the Janjaweed attacked her village last February, Salga Mahadir ran to her son's house and called for him to flee...
...purchase of FDCs. This is a little suspicious—the pharmaceutical industry is a huge contributor to and close ally of President Bush, and they stand to lose big if he green-lights generic FDCs. In addition to losing lucrative contracts, they fear that their long-term profit margins will suffer if generic manufacturers continue to gain greater international legitimacy and clout...
...years the supermarket industry viewed its 1% net profit margin as a badge of its efficiency. In reality, the opposite was true: the grocers earned so little because they weren't that good at managing the supply chain. Wal-Mart exploited that weakness with devastating effect on the grocers, and it has forced food suppliers to become more efficient too. For starters, the leviathan has changed the way grocery stores deal with their vendors, as everyone seeks to copy its Retail Link system, which provides real-time sales data to manufacturers. Wal-Mart also helped persuade the pack to subscribe...
Industry analysts are unsure whether many young readers will ever convert to paying customers. But the analysts mostly agree that the freebies add value by increasing market share and attracting new, youth-seeking advertising dollars. The Tribune's RedEye (circ. 85,000), for example, has not turned a profit, but it has attracted 350 new advertisers to the Trib. Plus, since newspaper companies use existing assets like printing plants, journalists and distribution networks, the cost of added operations is incremental, says James Marsh, an analyst at SG Cowen Securities. Most of the free papers are break-even propositions...