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...stake its claim, the Australian company has just done a deal with Denmark's Danisco to produce straws containing three strains of freeze-dried bacteria that "wake up" when they come into contact with liquid. Unlike yogurt, the straws don't need to be refrigerated and can be consumed in juice. The price could be as little as half that of a probiotic yogurt...
Clean, renewable energy. In fact, I'm in it a little bit and I want to get in it more. I have a multimillion-dollar stake in First Solar, which is one of the publicly held solar companies...
...Coke has focused on supplementing its signature soda brands with water (Vitamin Water), juice (Odwalla) and other noncarbonated drinks, answering critics who lambasted the company for being a lightweight in the nonsoda segment of the beverage business. To keep up its momentum, Coke recently bought a 40% stake in Honest Tea, an organic-bottled-tea upstart. Pepsi, which owns Gatorade and Tropicana, was already well positioned, so it steadily ramped up its focus on snack foods. Its Frito-Lay division now accounts for 56% of Pepsi's annual retail sales. Over the past decade, that product diversity has helped Pepsi...
...explains that the magazine was founded as a way to cover a breath of lifestyle issues with one common thread: Harvard alumni. “I’m a real admirer of the concept behind the magazine,” he says. “You had a stake in a sophisticated, largely affluent audience, and you had a very interesting group of people to write about underneath the umbrella of Harvard alumni.” True, with featured alumni like Tommy Lee Jones ’69, Al Gore ’69, and (sort of) Bill Gates...
...brand nationally-and in New Hampshire, where four state party officials have been convicted of hiring a firm to jam Democratic phone lines during the 2002 election-Sununu has tried to present himself as, well, a maverick. In the Senate, he has gone out of his way to stake out some independent ground-opposing reauthorization of the Patriot Act, supporting land conservation issues, and being the first Republican Senator to call for the resignation of former attorney general Alberto Gonzales. During the last televised debate in the Senate race, both candidates were asked to identify issues on which they took...