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Behind one Milan warehouse's steel doors is the full-scale mock-up of a room that will serve as the template for the first hotel to bear the Bulgari brand name. Scheduled to open in Milan in January 2004, the hotel represents a gamble for CEO Francesco Trapani, but he's trying to be cool about it. "If it does well, it's another good hotel," he says. "If it does poorly, it's the end of the story. If it does particularly well, then it can change both our industries." When Bulgari announced two years ago that...
...punk scenes on the East and West coasts. “We don’t have the whole regional sound. You hear some bands and you can tell they are from New Jersey. We’re from Texas, but we don’t have any steel guitars or fiddles or banjos,” said Baker in an interview with...
...Japanese can, the entire country single-mindedly set out to achieve that goal. Government bureaucracies picked favored industries, giving companies in those fields the incentives and market protection they needed to improve quality until they were ready to compete with the world's best. And thus Japan's textile, steel, automobile and finally, semiconductor and computer industries were born...
...Beretta engraving studio, where the company is leading a push to partly automate the making of luxury firearms. Beretta has invested some $4 million over the past four years in computer-controlled machines to cut walnut stocks, cold-forge barrels, even fashion the upper curves of receivers (the guns' steel mid-bodies...
...serve New Delhi. "We were a tiny company," remembers his brother Rajan, a managing director at the firm, "but we knew we had to take a shot." Right away Bharti went head-to-head with India's industrial titans. The other Delhi operator was controlled by Essar Group, a steel-making giant. But Mittal found ways to compete. He convinced European telecom equipment-maker Ericsson to supply Bharti's network on credit; he promised to pay "when the customers are happy," he says. Bharti (the name is derived from the Hindi word for Indian) expanded its distribution network for prepaid...