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...then in June, Apple launched iTunes in Britain, France and Germany, offering a wider selection of songs for less money ($1.44 each). In its first week in Europe alone, iTunes sold 800,000 tracks. Napster and the Sony Connect store also have competing music sites, and WalMart and EasyGroup, parent company of EasyJet, are looking to launch their music-download services. Coke execs are debuting their site in Austria and promoting it heavily on the sides of cans, but they must be wishing for the days when Pepsi was all they had to worry about. --By Chris Taylor...
Plenty of other corporate initiatives are under way to grab kids' attention. WalMart has been drawing kids (and their parents' pocketbooks) to its stores with a marketing concept called "retailainment." In one version last fall, kids visiting WalMart received Bob the Builder coloring books and could go on a "safety scavenger hunt" that led them to the toy, hardware and infant-and-toddler departments. What's going on? Preschoolers are now considered a "highly marketable segment for certain products," says a recent report by MarketResearch.com Though you probably already know that if you have a toddler in the house. --With...
...Stores were expected to respond quickly to changes in their local markets, and they did. But Home Depot never took advantage of its size to negotiate national purchasing deals, and there was little communication among store managers. As Home Depot's growth slowed, it became vulnerable to competition from WalMart's cost cutting on one end and Lowe's more polished, female-friendly stores on the other...
...this." Coton didn't doubt that Howard was physically ready. In fact, he believed that, with the typical goalkeeper peaking in his early 30s, "we could have a big player on our hands for years to come." Equally appealing was the fact that the U.S. has become soccer's WalMart: Howard's $4.1 million transfer fee was tiny compared with the $52.5 million paid out to Leeds in 2002 for defender Rio Ferdinand, now with Man U but suspended for eight months for missing a drug test. The only real unknown for United was how Howard would handle his immersion...
...cited the example of an Oberlin graduate that established an environmentalist group in Ohio and a group of Oberlin students who bought out a city block to forestall the establishment of a Walmart...