from Associated Press: Microsoft Corp. will begin selling its Outlook e-mail program as a subscription to Hotmail customers, in a bid to persuade people to pay for add-on services and better compete with rivals such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. The new service, which costs $59.95 per year, will let people organize e-mail, contact lists and calendars in their online Hotmail accounts using the Microsoft Outlook …
CEO Says KFC Is Like Silk
China's relentless appetite for the colonel's chicken has KFC on a building boom in the world's most populous country, with 1,200 locations, soaring profits and a menu that mixes in bamboo shoots and lotus roots. At a time when its sales in the United States are struggling, KFC is dominating even rival McDonald's in China and turning the goateed visage of Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland Sanders into a …
McDonald’s Is Lovin’ It Large
McDonald's Corp. said Tuesday that sales at U.S. restaurants open at least 13 months, or same-store sales, rose 6.9 percent in December and 9.6 percent for all of 2004, its best annual performance in 30 years. Same-store sales are considered the best indicator of a retailer's health. The December figure marked the 21st straight monthly increase. Worldwide sales rose 4.9 percent in December--their 20th straight …
Kids Can Do No. 2 (With A Little Help From P&G)
from NY Times: Looking for new ways to expand their businesses, makers of the two top diaper brands, Huggies and Pampers, are both introducing lines of toiletries for babies and small children. Pampers, made by Procter & Gamble, the No. 2 diaper brand in the United States with 30.5 percent of the market, is now rolling out a new line of Kandoo products, including flushable wipes and foaming hand soap, both intended …
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Nice New Caddy Sweetens The Deal
A 2006 Cadillac DTS will be sworn into service this week to chauffeur President Bush in his second inaugural parade. The '06 DTS replaces a 2001 Cadillac DeVille President Bush had been using. While boasting that the front end of the presidential limo gives the public its first look at the design adopted for the consumer version of the new DTS sedan that comes out this fall, Cadillac offered few other specifics. The …
Beer Titans Battle For Legendary Canadian Brand
Forbes: Yesterday Adolph Coors said it would offer an additional $1.81 per share, or 6%, to Molson shareholders in order to head off growing resistance and a rival offer from SABMiller. Though the Molson shareholder is now getting a better than "equal" deal, no one seems to be toasting their good fortune. Though Coors sells a lot more beer than Molson, Molson has traditionally been more profitable, and it is the …
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Germans Take An Interest In “The Greening Of America”
from USA TODAY: Smart, the Mercedes-Benz mini-car brand that evolved from a 1993 joint venture with watchmaker Swatch, definitely will launch a small four-seater in the USA in September 2006, but it might decide to sell one of its toy-like two-seaters here even before that, according to Smart CEO Ulrich Walker. The U.S.-bound Formore isn't displayed at the Detroit auto show, however, because Walker says it doesn't …
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Google Keeps It Real
from NY Times: In the haphazard world of instant messaging and dashed-off e-mail messages, where "kk" isn't a typographical mistake but just the latest bit of Internet slang (it stands for kays, or O.K.), does anyone really care about style and grammar anymore? Google does. Taking the stance that unorthodox usage and punctuation and slang create a less straightforward searching experience, Google's AdWords division, …
