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...discount centers," plus a Dutch mail-order company that offers a full range of sex toys, videos and publications. The discount centers are all located in small towns in the Netherlands and neighboring countries; Beate Uhse shops are located in main shopping districts in larger cities. Beate recently launched retail websites in Austria and Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Naughty But Nice | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...announcers said that while Nike sneakers can retail for upwards of $200, they cost only $2.35 to manufacture...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM Models Hit the Runway | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

Over the summer, Haynie decided to join Mary Kay's fleet of 500,000 consultants. The company, founded by Mary Kay Ash in 1963 claims it is the best-selling cosmetic brand in the nation and nets more than $2 billion annually in retail sales...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Made Up in Mary Kay | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...immediately conjures up images of scruffy activists blocking railroad tracks to stop nuclear-waste shipments or challenging whaling ships in rubber rafts. So it's surprising to find in the ranks of this radical green group a button-down business tycoon named Malcolm Walker, who heads Iceland, a British retail food chain with 760 stores and annual revenues of $2.7 billion. But Walker, 53, whose personal fortune of $40 million puts him on the British "Rich List" compiled by the Sunday Times of London, sees nothing incongruous about his consorting with environmental militants. "I wear a suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALCOLM WALKER: Protester in Pinstripes | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Novatel, whose Minstrel line of wireless modems is popular with Palm users, has just begun shipping the Merlin, which works on most PC laptops, to retail stores. The company says that at $279, it is the cheapest wireless modem around (I haven't found a cheaper one--others tend to cost $400 and up). Another plus: the Merlin draws roughly one tenth the power of a typical laptop modem. That's good news for road warriors and anyone else trying to conserve their laptop's battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting the Cord | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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