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...market, according to Euromonitor International, while Pepsi has 31%. And Coke is gunning for more. The giant recently moved to acquire one of China's biggest drinkmakers, the China Huiyuan Juice Co., for about $2.3 billion. The deal still requires government approval, but if completed, it would give Coke control of a rising star that has 46% of China's fresh-juice market...
...Africa, Abimola has cultivated an alternative business model. Rather than building new companies, Shoreline Energy International acquires existing firms at all stages of energy production. “Vertical integration is old hat in Europe,” Abimbola said. “But in Africa, you need to control the beginning and end of production, since suppliers are unreliable.” The discussion, called “Building a 21st Century African Growth Company,” was hosted by the Harvard International Business Club. The event’s organizer, Katherine...
...another, and publishing companies are well aware of this. By choosing to fight the inevitable, publishing houses are merely hurting themselves. Rather than pour time and money into fruitless legal battles, they would do well to embrace what Google has tried to start; and in so doing, they could control the project’s development and implementation on their own terms. What makes the conflict all the more tragic, and avoidable, is that there is a road map for this problem. The publishing industry has only to look to their cousin, the music industry. Despite incessant threats, countless legal...
...left her post as Chicago's city-planning commissioner to work for The Habitat Co., a for-profit real-estate firm, of which she is now President and CEO. In June, the Boston Globe ran a story on the firm's struggles, noting that city authorities had reassigned control of one of its housing complexes due to mismanagement...
...country's fragile security is also being tested by the increasingly frayed relationship and mutual suspicions harbored by the anti-insurgent, largely Sunni Sons of Iraq (SOI) groups and the predominantly Shi'ite government. The U.S. military transferred control of the SOIs to the central government in October. The government has been slow to fulfill its pledge to incorporate 20% of Baghdad's 54,000 SOIs into the armed forces, further frustrating anti-insurgent leaders who want more of their men given security jobs. At the same time, domestic politicking is set to intensify ahead of provincial polls slated...