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...only permits three for the price of two. In France, the value of a gift premium must not exceed 7% of the cost of the goods it comes with. "That means, if you buy two shirts and get a free tie, you'll only get a bad tie," says Axel Tandberg, head of government affairs at the Federation of European Direct Marketing in Brussels. Enforcement is tough. Germany, France and others have specialized bureaucracies that are quick to sue. A commercial court in Brussels last month ordered France's Carrefour supermarket giant to halt a campaign that offered price reductions...
...will resist change. But since the Prost team went bust last year, and Orange-sponsored Arrows is likely to follow suit, Formula One has to bite the bullet, now. Archive: Schumy the Great THE BOURSE Insolvency, She Wrote Deutsche Bank paid €667 million for a 40.3% share in Axel Springer, Europe's top publisher, once owned by fallen media baron Leo Kirch. The bank then sold 10.4% of the stake to Friede Springer, giving her control. Turning Each Other On The U.K.'s two largest commercial broadcasters, Carlton and Granada, agreed on merger plans to create a new company...
With the complete loss of vision - and the resulting heightening of the other four senses - an evening at Germany's first-ever dark restaurant is an extraordinary culinary adventure. "You smell better, you are more receptive to differences in texture, consistency and temperature," says Unsicht-Bar manager and founder Axel Rudolph, 46, who opened the eatery in May 2001. "It's a holistic experience." As taste buds work overtime to discover fresh nuances in well-known flavors, even simple, everyday foods like potatoes or plain yogurt morph into nouvelle cuisine...
...million a day, and he borrowed heavily to keep it running. Kirch also offered investors a "put option" - a promise to get their money back if they wanted to quit the company's far-flung businesses. Big players - Murdoch has an option on KirchPayTV and German newspaper publisher Axel Springer Verlag has one on ProSiebenSat.1 - began the year by demanding their money back at a time when the pay television operation had left the company with no cash...
They have hardly taken a breather since. Undefeated internationally since November 2000, Sale and Pelletier edged out the Russian pair Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze last spring in Vancouver to became world champions. In that matchup the Russians skated a nearly clean program while Sale singled a double Axel. But with the Russians coming off a weak season, no one raised a fuss. This year Sale and Pelletier trotted out Orchid, a new high-concept routine (he played the stem, she the blooming flower) but on the eve of the Olympics settled on Love Story, based on the 1970 love...