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...seemed a land of dashed dreams for foreign companies eager to sell to 1.3 billion mainland consumers. But for KFC, this frontier has proved unexpectedly bountiful. Colonel Sanders, the goateed (and quite dead) Southern gentleman who is KFC's founder and marketing icon, rules the country's fast-food roost. Since opening its first mainland outlet in Beijing in 1987, the fried-chicken chain has gone on to become the most recognized global brand among urban consumers in China, according to an ACNielsen survey in 1999. KFC says more than 2 million Chinese eat at its stores every...
...Ryanair's six-monthly figures announced two weeks ago showed a 45% leap in passengers and 16% in profits. That success is due less to subsidies than to relentless cost control. Now the company is eyeing expensive trunk routes like Milan/Rome and Barcelona/Madrid, where the major airlines rule the roost. So don't put Ryanair on the slag heap just yet. The European Commission may make all discount airlines play by the same rules, but it hardly wants to ground them...
...GLOBAL ADVISOR Travel: Hong Kong's back! Dossier: Kiwis return to roost Hotels: Warsaw luxe Books: Long haul reads Style: Chocolate treats Tech: Portable entertainment Golf: Cost-of-living-it-up Index...
...GLOBAL ADVISOR Travel: Hong Kong's back! Dossier: Kiwis return to roost Hotels: Warsaw luxe Books: Long haul reads Style: Chocolate treats Tech: Portable entertainment Golf: Cost-of-living-it-up Index...
...GLOBAL ADVISOR Travel: Hong Kong's back! Dossier: Kiwis return to roost Hotels: Warsaw luxe Books: Long haul reads Style: Chocolate treats Tech: Portable entertainment Golf: Cost-of-living-it-up Index...