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...That view is also shared by the Zurich-based Barry Callebaut, one of the world's leading manufacturers of industrial cocoa and chocolate. The company maintained stable sales volumes and increased profits by 4.7% in the fiscal period ending in February of this year, which spokeswoman Josiane Kremer attributes to the firm's expansion into high-growth emerging markets such as Eastern Europe, Russia and China, as well as market share gains in North America. (See pictures of trade between China and Africa...
...core consumers are blue-collar families," says Anton Brenner, restaurant analyst at Roth Capital Partners. "They've been squeezed very hard." In the fourth quarter of 2008, same-store sales dropped 6.1%. Sales fell 3.7% for the year, and the company's stock price, at $2.14 a share, has dropped 30.5% over the past 12 months. "It wasn't a good year for us," Marchioli admits...
...offer. "And today is a profit-making exercise. For giving it away, do I make less margin? Yes. But I drive new traffic. And in this economy, particularly for Denny's, it's important to drive new traffic. It's about taking share that we've had over the years, and that we've let other people take from...
...idea is to serve stuff that groups of amped-up rabble rousers can share. Denny's wants to give the late-night crowd a social experience they can't get at fast-food drive-throughs, which are now staying open later and eating away at the chain's graveyard-shift revenues. "The party is not going to stop once you get through those doors," says Michael Polydoroff, director of sales, promotions and licensing at Denny...
...unable to buy expensive dietary supplements even for livestock of productive age, and dry milch cattle and older farm animals are invariably turned out to fend for themselves. Poor-quality feed equals poor animal health as well as higher methane production. Also, even when Western firms are willing to share technology or when Western products are available, these options are often unaffordable for the majority in India. For instance, Monensin, an antibiotic whose slow-release formula reduces methane emission by cows, proved too expensive for widespread use in India. So the emphasis for Indian scientists is on indigenous solutions...