Word: relaunches
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Some of the vendors selling these treats and treasures from yesteryear are grownups who cherish the same memories as their customers. Take the man behind the relaunch of Fizzies, the effervescent drink tablet licked, dissolved and chugged by a whole generation of children. Fred Wehling, 51, president of Amerilab Technologies, was one of those kids. He remembers it all: the 29¢ his grandma gave him every week, the walk to the grocery store, meditating over which flavor to pick, hearing the tablet hit the water and fizz. The product, sweetened with cyclamate, died when the chemical was banned...
...Bergdorf Goodman. But by 1989 the brand had lost some of its stature and was purchased by Alfred Chan, a Canadian entrepreneur who was born near Xiamen and raised in Hong Kong. Chan married Fiona and made the unlikely decision to move the company's operations to Xiamen and relaunch the brand to cater exclusively to the then tiny population of mainland Chinese women with the means to afford luxury clothing...
...ever since. Like the music itself, Ronnie Scott's has had to ride the tides of fashion, but the first principles devised by Scott and cofounder Pete King - a decent piano, a late bar and a warm welcome for all - have, until its recent $4 million makeover and relaunch, been little tinkered with. After Scott's death in 1996, King persevered for eight years but finally sold the club to British theater impresario Sally Greene. "I got a fantastic club that has been run by two amazing men for the last 45 years," says Greene, who knows nostalgia...
...response, Ghosn spent nine months looking at the company's international offices, assembly lines and even dealerships to map out a new business plan for Renault. He wants to lift operating profit margin to 6%, increase annual Renault car sales from the current 2.5 million to 3.3 million, relaunch 13 existing brands and roll out 13 new models. Ghosn also plans to step up Renault's activity in luxury, SUV and crossover categories and exploit its effervescent markets outside Western Europe, where two-thirds of the extra 800,000 cars are expected to be sold...
...response, Ghosn spent nine months looking at the group's international offices, assembly lines and even dealerships to map out a new business plan for Renault. He wants to lift operating profit margin to 6%, increase annual Renault car sales from the current 2.5 million to 3.3 million, relaunch 13 existing brands, and roll out another 13 new models. Ghosn also plans to step up Renault's activity in luxury, suv and crossover categories, and exploit its effervescent markets outside of Western Europe, where two-thirds of the extra 800,000 cars are expected to be sold. The additional activity...