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Second, commerce. Business has always driven computer technology forward, and this continues to be true with the Web. The Web has enabled customers and companies to be connected across distances in an immediate fashion that catalog stores could never do. The primary business that can be done on the Web by the average Joe Sixpack is to visit an on-line store, discount products site or auction...
...chains whose slice of the pie has grown at double-digit rates over the past five years. Profits? Papa John's earnings jumped 45% last year and are on track for at least a 30% increase in 1998, even as Schnatter opens units at the furious pace of a store a day. "Papa John's has been an incredible success story," says Mitchell Speiser, who watches the restaurant industry for Lehman Brothers. "They have done a great job of emerging out of nowhere...
Pizza Hut (1997 sales: $4.7 billion), which has a 22% share of the pizza market and four times as many stores as Papa John's, has been busily boosting quality and shutting down poorly performing stores. Under pressure from Papa John's, Pizza Hut spent $50 million last year to roll out what it called Totally New Pizzas, featuring thicker tomato sauce, fresh sliced vegetables and meatier toppings. Meanwhile, Pizza Hut has closed 250 stores since PepsiCo spun it and siblings Taco Bell and KFC into Tricon last year. The new strategy pushed Pizza Hut's same-store sales...
...wonder Americans are eating them up. Energy-bar sales are expected to hit $500 million in 1998, up 40% in a year. And they have moved from the retail fringe--health-food stores and bike shops--to become a grocery- and convenience-store staple. When Balance Bar, the fastest-growing barmaker, went public last spring, Wall Street tagged it with a "buy" rating and predicted soaring revenues. Industry optimists are hoping that energy bars will eventually match the $2 billion-a-year sales of sport drinks like Gatorade...
...Green Party worries about the ecological dangers b) the Social Democrats promised jobs to coal workers c) the country is running out of places to store nuclear waste d) Do you really want Germany to have access to nuclear material...