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...department to find out exactly how it approached product placement. Though it will supply free juice to lots of TV shows, movies and red-carpet events, the company is willing to pay to be in situations only if they highlight its core brand messages of health and luxury. "We wouldn't pay a lot of money if it's just sitting in front of Simon Cowell," said senior vice president of marketing Diane Kuyoomjian. I was feeling pretty healthy and luxurious until she told me, as an example, that the company turned down a scene in a movie in which...
...cars sold in the U.K. are imported, with most of those arriving from Continental Europe. So while 61% of those polled in a survey for Britain's Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said they'd likely take up such an offer, a British scrapping scheme "wouldn't be a huge boost to British car factories," says Garel Rhys, president of Cardiff University's Centre for Automotive Industry Research. "In a sense it would be the British taxpayer subsidizing factories in France and Germany...
...record yields have depressed almond prices to half their peak; many growers will be lucky to break even this year. Meanwhile, a drought led Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency on Feb. 27. Some almond farmers didn't even rent bees this year, figuring they wouldn't have enough water to irrigate their trees all summer. Ironically, it's been rainy around Hughson, cutting hours for active pollination short. This area's almond crop may suffer. Regardless, growers have few choices. "I'm in it for the long haul," says Jim Hudelson, a fifth-generation Hughson almond...
That would be BHP Billiton, mate, an Xstrata rival. In fact, Geoff Clare, an executive director of Queensland's Environmental Protection Agency, had mining in mind because the industry had raked in record profits thanks to Australia's commodity boom. Some green sheen wouldn't hurt the industry...
...have to ask if there was something more timely to make fun of...we feel like someone got excited about this idea in November and wouldn't budge. And we're all for parodies being a couple of months old, at most. We should have felt more lame and out of touch for not getting it, and instead we just felt a bit awkward...