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...rise to 300,000 - Jag's sales slid to 60,500 by 2007 and they're continuing to fall. But it should have a viable future as a niche brand. "Besides, it's too small now to lose too much money," says Jay Nagley, an analyst at London consultants Spyder Automotive...
...anticipates selling 250,000 cars overseas by the end of 2007. Currently, Western Europe accounts for about half of Chrysler's sales abroad. That percentage will drop to 35% to 40% as it ramps up efforts in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Analyst Jay Nagley of consultant Spyder Automotive wonders why Chrysler even bothers with Western Europe, a very developed, tough market. It should, he says, concentrate on emerging markets. "At least in those countries, everyone is starting from scratch." But Chrysler's Manley says Western Europe is too large a market to ignore, especially since Chrysler...
Globe uses d3o in skateboard shoes. Spyder is making a slalom suit with d3o for the U.S. and Canadian Olympic teams. Swiss company Ribcap is putting d3o into soft ski caps. d3o management is also discussing military opportunities. And as d3o becomes cheaper to produce, it could be used in cars, soundproofing and police and paramedic gear. Then there are football, baseball, rugby, polo, cricket. The prospects for d3o and its "intelligent molecules" suddenly look endless...
Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful memory. A sure recipe for film immortality; but death at 24, in the driver's seat of a Porsche 550 Spyder, doesn't allow much time for achievement. Dean managed it with just three starring roles, in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. It helped that all three were excellent films; it helped more that Dean spoke a secret language to teenagers just as they were becoming a significant marketing niche. In his bruised blond beauty, young people saw what they thought they looked like inside. What they felt...
...became the butt of national jokes. There was a glimmer of hope in the 1990s, when the firm was acquired and run by BMW. The German luxury automaker invested in a new premium model, the 75, but it didn't sell well. Jay Nagley, managing director of British consultants Spyder Automotive, says it was beautifully engineered, "but too Old World. It was a German engineer's idea of Britishness." In 1999, its last year under BMW's ownership, Rover manufactured 225,000 cars. In 2000, BMW sold it for the equivalent of $15 to four Birmingham businessmen whose firm...