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...Kenneth Moll and others in petitioning a U.S. court to let them file a class action lawsuit on behalf of 6,800 people, many from Germany. And even if Bayer fends off the U.S. class-action suit, they may still face legal headaches in Europe: the state prosecutor in Turin, Italy, is pursuing a criminal investigation against the company for marketing and selling flawed medicine...
DIED. GIOVANNI AGNELLI, 81, debonair patriarch of Italian automaker Fiat; in Turin, Italy. Founded by his grandfather in 1899, Fiat was run by Agnelli as president for 30 years until 1996, and he retained control until he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. Agnelli helped industrialize postwar Italy; under him, Fiat became the country's largest company. Its workers had a slogan: "Agnelli is Fiat, Fiat is Turin, and Turin is Italy." But competition from other European car makers saw Fiat's share of the Italian auto market drop from 60% to 39% in the late 1990s, and recently...
...even Agnelli's flash could not sustain a company that has been long on passion and short on the nuts-and-bolts fundamentals that determine success in today's highly competitive global car market. Although Agnelli, known to friends as "Gianni," was once the ultimate decision maker at the Turin conglomerate, his power, like his health, had waned as Fiat was battered by crises in the boardroom and in the market. In fact, control of Fiat had already shifted to his younger brother Umberto, a handover that was scheduled to be formalized the morning of Gianni's death. Also...
...around and the spirits are, um, high, especially when the word gets out that the brew is made with hemp - marijuana's non- psychoactive cousin. Despite the rowdy comments about getting stoned, this is not a seedy bar in a back alley, but the respected Salon of Taste in Turin, a gourmet fest organized last October by Slow Food, a worldwide organization promoting healthy eating. Here the message in the bottle is that since hemp is rich in nutrients and essential fatty acids, beer containing this fibrous plant is good for what ales you. It is also controversial. The hemp...
...layoffs and asked the government to declare a state of crisis, the first step to public aid for its workers and factories. It is a request that people in Cassino, 70 km north of Naples, say must be heeded to save the city from economic disaster. Even more than Turin, the northern city where Fiat was founded by Agnelli's grandfather in 1899, places like Cassino are utterly dependent company towns. Since they were built to extend the company's reach and wealth to the south, Fiat factories and nearby parts providers offer the only real job opportunities...