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Western businesses are investing with eyes wide open. "The politics do concern us," says Grant Winterton, Coca-Cola's regional manager for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The beverage titan knows the risks firsthand. Coca-Cola invested $800 million in the 1990s to build 11 plants in Russia and an extensive distribution system. The company's fortunes took a severe knock in 1998 when Russia was hit by a debt crisis and a massive devaluation of its currency. But since then, Coca-Cola's Russian operations have grown back to profitability, Winterton says, and it has half of Russia...
...Hence the caution of Western businesses like Dixons. "The politics do concern us," says Grant Winterton, Coca-Cola's regional manager for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The beverage titan knows the risks firsthand. Coca-Cola invested $800 million in the 1990s to build 11 plants in Russia and an extensive distribution system. The company's fortunes took a severe knock in 1998, when Russia was hit by a debt crisis and massive devaluation of its currency. But since then Coca-Cola's Russian operations have grown back to profitability, Winterton says, and it currently has half of Russia...
...Indeed, Coke's acquisition of Multon marks a deeper commitment to the Russian market, linked to the emergence of viable Russian consumer brands. Winterton says Coca-Cola thought about introducing its own juices in Russia, but decided to acquire Multon because the Russian firm was already well established, with strong local brands. "It's a very good business that would be hard to compete against," he says. The story is the same at Orkla, a $5 billion Norwegian consumer goods and chemicals conglomerate that last December bought a Russian confectionery company called SladCo for an undisclosed amount. SladCo's revenues...
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...past, critics have questioned whether students learn the large amount of basic knowledge necessary to become a physician. However, Paul W. Winterton, a second year medical student, says, "Cases lend themselves to learning large amounts of theory...