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...tonier Sainsbury's. But today, Tesco operates 2,318 stores in 13 countries and is eating its competition for lunch. Analysts expect sales at Tesco to rise 6-7% when it reports holiday results this week. How did Tesco do it? Under the leadership of former chairman Ian MacLaurin and current chief executive Terry Leahy, Tesco cleaned up its dingy stores, expanded into more convenient central locations, and offered a more inspiring product line without sacrificing rock-bottom prices. It developed its premium Finest and economy Value private-label ranges and moved into higher-margin nonfood items such as electronics...
...round midnight at sydney university's hallowed MacLaurin Hall, and Akira Isogawa's spring/summer 2005 collection is running over two hours late. The tardiness is as unsurprising as the trays of champagne that circulate through the 500-plus crowd - like bumper-to-bumper traffic, shows have been in a gridlock of delay since morning. Hardly surprising, either, is the gasp that finally greets Akira's creations as they weave their way through the crowd: the Sydney-based designer has been perfecting his bowerbird brand of beauty since first showing solo at Australian Fashion Week in 1998. What is surprising...
...RESIGNED. CHRISTOPHER GENT, 54, cricket-loving chief executive of Britain's Vodafone Group who rode the telecom boom and transformed the small FTSE company into the world's leading mobile-phone operator; in London. Vodafone chairman Lord MacLaurin said Gent stepped down over media criticism of his $19.8 million payout last year, when Vodafone recorded a $21.6 billion loss and its share price fell by a third. Gent's successor is Arun Sarin, head of Vodafone's U.S. ventures, who takes over in July...
...Actually Maclaurin almost didn't become a rower. He only picked up the sport in high school after being cut from the tennis team. Two years later, as a junior, he was a member of the high school national championship boat at New Hampshire's St. Paul...
...joint concentrator in East Asian Studies and Anthropology, MacLaurin will be moving to the business world next year, working for an Internet consulting firm in Boston...