The higher dollar also increases production costs versus foreign rivals, making U.S. products less competitive in international markets. Colgate's rivals such as Procter & Gamble Co also have vast international businesses, including in Europe … The …

Any improvement in Japan is the beggar-thy-Asia result of yen devaluation. China's purchasing … A consensus is forming now: The provisions would be anti-competitive, expensive and supply-choking, and plenty of other regulation will do the job. In …

Is there a way you could maybe help us to understand the balance of what you say a top line investment in an environment that is competitive versus all those goodies that you are making on the cost side? I remember at the full-year stage, I did ask you …

The moment a separate service is introduced, and the affluent will have the scope of simply paying for a star rated service, they will forget about the people who linger at the bottom. I, along with a few thousand others can go to Chittagong on luxury …

Like others before it, and undoubtedly many in future, Rabobank says it wants to establish a clear separation between the advice it offers and the products it invests in. What was less clearly articulated is that Rabobank now has complete flexibility …

It continues to focus on its core food and beverage products while also offering other locally oriented choices. "The demographics they are targeting are younger and more affluent groups," Hottovy said. Starbucks opened its first store in Taipei in …

The leisurely summer is deeply embedded in communal memory, an artifact of the relatively affluent Western lifestyle. It occupies so central a place in American popular culture that it would be difficult to abolish. But it's time to do so. The long …

“If you would take the house and turn it upside down it is what would fall out,” Walter said when asked what items fit that classification. Walter and her … “It is someone affluent, a second-home buyer and someone who is somewhat sophisticated. We …

I had spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about the world of philanthropy as practiced by the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006. That year, my father, Warren Buffett, made …