BBC News | BUSINESS | Philip Morris: Tobacco and food giant (#)
„High-profile support aimed at winning customers in less developed markets and diversification into other products are just two of the strategies the company has used for defending and expanding a business under attack on its home turf. Philip Morris brands Marlboro Philadelphia cream cheese Dairylea Miller beer Toblerone Suchard Maxwell House Kenco Birds Custard And with a US jury having recently ordered Philip Morris to pay one smoker suffering from terminal cancer more than $3bn in damages, the tobacco giant has good reason to believe that the battle with litigators is far from over. Another angle to the company's defence has also emerged in the past few years - to be more up-front about the dangers of smoking in the hope this will reduce the level of any future damages awards. Most recently, Philip Morris has caused controversy for appearing to suggest premature deaths from smoking bring economic benefits since governments will not have to stump up for years of healthcare or housing for the elderly.“
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BBC News | BUSINESS | Germany's feeling the pinch
„Germans have not benefited from tax cuts "You can't blame the government wholly because they have introduced structural tax reforms which have helped (to stimulate the economy) but were largely cancelled out by the high the oil price," says Mr Hausen. Germany's main trade union body, the Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) agrees. "The government has done everything it can within the confines and can't always stimulate the economy because you have to be careful the deficit doesn't get too big," says the DGB's chief economist Wolfgang Scheremet. "The weakness is not because of any mistake of the government's but due to high energy costs and the global economic downturn." German stimulus Last year the Schroeder government restructured business and personal taxation by limiting corporate taxes to 36% while the top band of income tax was to be cut from over 50% to 42% by 2005.“
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Review of Uncommon Grounds by Mark Pendergrast
„-- and the giant corporations of this one. An ironist as well as a moralist, Pendergrast notes the interlocking of delivery systems after Philip Morris moved into the coffee business by buying General Foods and after Coca-Cola merged with Duncan Foods. “
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BBC - Coventry and Warwickshire Features - Perfect festive wine
„"It needs to be kept airtight then you can pour it off through a coffee filter - you can't make a mistake, just do it," he said.You can't keep it in a decanter for too long, just one week means it loses a lot of its flavour complexities, so you do really need to have a decent amount of people around.Even though Christmas is now dominated by cream liquers after dinner, Phil urged that whisky should not be forgotten - and there are few things better than a decent single malt.As an after dinner malt, Laphroaig is a top selection (and a nice present, if the family are reading), which starts at £22, and The Glenrothes is another excellent Scotch - the 1989 bottle is particularly recommended.“
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„Downshifting means changing your lifestyle – to a better one, I suppose. If you’ve had enough of the daily grind – pack it in! If you’ve had enough of the boring daily routine – pack it in. If you’ve had enough of a boring dead end nine-to-five job – pack it in, too.“
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