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...objective profit and loss have suffered too. Airlines explore the temptations of Chapter 11. Amtrak staggers ahead, feckless and insolvent, through train wrecks and slowdowns. It is time to make very large changes - to rearrange the mix of the three basic modes of mass transportation: air, rail and highway...
...owners, Bob and Rae Anne Donlin tried to convert the space, which had been run on a non-profit educational charter, into a bookstore called Passim. But the demand for folk music never died down, and they soon found themselves “forced into booking music again,” according to Smith. The Donlins were soon doing so well, they at one point turned Bruce Springsteen down...
Africa is soon to be Coke’s most profitable geographic sector, with the continent making the corporation $620 million last year, for a 41 percent profit margin, Twu said, citing Coke corporate reports. The estimated cost of providing the extended health care, according to Coke’s analysis, would be less than 1 percent of its African earnings, she said...
...grocery chains are as clever as Whole Foods Markets at enticing shoppers to gorge on fancy fare. With $2.3 billion in revenue and a 20% profit surge last year, Whole Foods trounced its rivals in the conventional-supermarket business; most of them muddled through with 1% to 2% sales growth. Whole Foods, though, doesn't sell just groceries. It offers something more ethereal: a feeling of healthy chic that pervades its stores and products and rubs off on customers. Even if you're buying fat-marbled T-bones and Camembert cheese, you're surrounded by colorful fruits and vegetables...
...with labor woes, according to analyst Scott Van Winkle of the Boston investment firm Adams, Harkness & Hill. Wild Oats has since shuttered 28 stores, and is planning, under new management, to grow by propping up sales at existing stores and expanding its branches. It squeezed out a slim operating profit in the first quarter, after losing money for the previous year, and the stock has rebounded...