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...advantage is paying off. In May, LG launched a new mobile phone in Korea with a 2-megapixel color screen simultaneously with Samsung. In the past, LG lagged at least several months behind its competitor's phone launches, missing out on higher prices and margins. LG became the largest supplier of mobile phones last year to service provider Verizon Communications...
...market, or French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy? Consumer groups and even some supermarket chains have long complained that a 1996 law designed to protect small retailers has hiked prices. Last week Sarkozy agreed, but instead of changing the "Galland law," he brokered a deal between retail chains and suppliers that will cut the price of some 4,000 items, from baby food to toilet paper, by an average of 2% in September and another 1% in January. Sarkozy hailed the deal as a "significant" reduction that will aid consumers. Consumer group UFC-Que Choisir disagrees, arguing that the law should...
DIED. MICHELINE CHAREST, 51, a founder with her husband of the Canadian children's television group Cinar, which produced the hit show Arthur; of complications from plastic surgery; in Montreal. Cinar was a leading supplier of children's shows like Zoboomafoo, Wimzie's House and Caillou as well as Arthur, featuring the world's most famous aardvark; in 1997 the Hollywood Reporter ranked Charest as the 19th most powerful woman in show business, ahead of Madonna. But two years later, Charest, along with her husband, was booted from Cinar's board following a series of financial scandals...
...gleefully portraying imminent price increases as punishment for E.U. accession, Latvians stripped their store shelves bare of salt, buying more in a day than previously in an entire month. The Estonians followed suit, fearing the price of salt would triple or quadruple. Yevgeni Boldyrev of the Tallinn-based grocery supplier Haljas Company told Vesti, Russian State Television's news program, that his company sold 2,000 tons of sugar in March, five times the normal amount. In Poland, customers went on a sugar-buying frenzy in the last week of March, forcing some stores to limit purchases...
INDICTED. GREG ANDERSON, 37, trainer for San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds; REMI KORCHEMNY, 71, prominent track coach; and JAMES VALENTE, 49, and VICTOR CONTE JR., 53, executives of a nutritional-supplements supplier; on 42 counts, including conspiracy to distribute steroids and money laundering, in what federal prosecutors allege was an elaborate scheme to provide performance-enhancing drugs to professional baseball, football and track-and-field athletes; in San Francisco...