Word: titanic
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...answer could be worth a pretty penny for L'Oreal. Over the past decade, the world's largest cosmetics concern has transformed itself from a French company focused on white women into a global titan whose skin, hair and cosmetics products are tailored to consumers from Dallas to Delhi. L'Oreal has a strategic gift for taking cosmetics brands, giving them an innovation injection and a marketing makeover, and then rolling them out across the world: antiaging potions for American boomers or lipsticks for young Chinese. L'Oreal is even working on beauty from the inside out: how about...
...distinctly unsexy business of growing cabbages and other produce and selling packaged vegetables such as boiled corn. Yet Hong Kong retail investors put in orders for nearly $4 billion of its stock, acting as if this tiny firm with about 150 employees is destined to become a global titan. In the short term, such suspension of disbelief can be highly profitable, but it can also prove to be an excellent way of losing money fast. "I warn investors to be cautious," says Joseph Lau, a director at Tai Fook Asset Management. "Some of the investors will ultimately be burned...
...landing of Pathfinder on Mars in the summer of 1997 was the closest I've seen to people really gathering around TVs and being as excited as they were in the 1960s. There is potential for that feeling to return this summer, when the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrives at Titan, a moon circling Saturn...
...expanded its chain of Westside retail stores, which stock perfume, crockery and Westside's brand of upmarket clothing. Sales were up 33% last year, helping his case as unofficial front runner to succeed Ratan in 2008. Noel was also recently appointed to the boards of Titan, the Tata watchmaking unit, and Voltas, an air-conditioning giant...
...suppose, in a parallel universe, that the Ivy Champion did go to the playoffs. And suppose that—still suspending belief here—one season that team was Yale. The big Bulldogs, going up against a D-I AA titan like Southern Illinois...