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- Global Middle Class to Double in 30 Years
- The Find: The global middle class is set to more than double between 2000 and 2030 offering massive opportunities -- and massive challenges -- to managers at multinational companies. The Source: "The New Global Middle Class- Potentially Profitable but Also Unpredictable" in Knowledge @Wharton. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- How Unpopular Is Big Business?
- When Gallup asked Americans if the earth revolves around the sun, 79% said yes. Shocked that 21% disagreed? That lack of general knowledge may be alarming, but for folks in business it might be more shocking to know that more Americans believe big business is untrustworthy than have a...
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Manufacturers Still Unconcerned about Safety of Chinese Imports
- It seemed like every week this summer there was a new product recall due to some toxin getting into toys or toothpaste made in China. Such high profile embarrassments surely made manufacturers more careful about their outsourcing, right? As much as you'd think businesses would be rushing to ensure the...
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Price of Oil Drives Up the Cost of... Gum?
- You're not in the aviation or shipping business so you're not expecting the near record price of oil to have much of an impact on your business. That's a mistake, according to a number of respected news outlets today. Marketwatch.com is warning that everything from cosmetics...
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- U.S. Economy Most Competitive in the World
- Oil's nearing $100 a barrel, and despite the stronger than expected growth rate in the third quarter, business confidence is as low as it was when the economy was just climbing out of a recession in 2002. With so many worrying statistics and gloomy predictions, it's hard to know how...
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Toyota, Hypocrisy and Green PR
- We've written about how green initiatives at your company can be good for the long-term bottom line and, of course, how they aren't bad for PR either. Of course, sometimes they really are. Especially when you are caught talking out of both sides of your mouth, as Toyota was last...
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Does More Choice Equal More Profits?
- Here at the BNET Intercom we've posted several times about the increasing tendency of marketers to target a multitude of products to specific market niches rather than aiming for broad appeal (among those posts is today's look at Nike's new shoes for Native Americans.) The result of all this niche...
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Manufacturers Go Lean and Green
- Industry Week has released its annual survey of U.S. manufacturers and the results show one thing unequivocally: American manufacturers are going lean. 70% of survey respondents reported lean manufacturing initiatives at their plants. The next most popular improvement methodology, Total Quality Management, was adopted at half that rate. ...
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Quick Fixes For Bad Moods
- Sometimes your business suffers from myopic strategy, poor planning or lax attention to detail. And sometimes your problems are simpler. Sometimes your business suffers because you're just plain exhausted, stressed or foggy-headed. What's to do? Simple but serious problems sometimes have simple, elegant solutions. This week, Men's Health is offering...
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Boxers or Briefs? Ask Wal-Mart
- Many a management school professor has spent time studying Wal-Mart (we've even gotten into the act here on BNET.) But Wal-Mart has spent even more time studying the American consumer. The 280 million of us who shop there each year reveal through our purchases a treasure trove of information on...
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- After a Horrible Summer, Airlines Change Their Ways
- It's been a particularly frustrating summer at the airport. The NY Times called it "a summer marked by widespread flight cancellations and delays, and the most crowded planes in the history of jet travel." Flights were so overbooked and the aging air-traffic control system so overburdened that when severe weather...
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Another New Face at Chrysler
- A month after hiring former Home Depot chief, Bob Nardelli, as CEO of embattled car manufacturer Chrysler, Cerberus Capital Management announced today that James E. Press, the highest ranking American at not-so-embattled Toyota, would become the company's new vice-chairman and co-president. Toyota recently surpassed Chrysler and Ford to become the...
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- 'Made in the USA' Gets a Makeover
- What does a 'Made in the U.S.A.' label convey? Years ago the label appealed mostly to blue collar workers worried about the flight of manufacturing jobs overseas and those interested in trumpeting their down-home patriotism. No longer, reports the NY Times today. The label has new cachet. ...
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- China Lauches PR Offensive as Mattel Announces Third Recall
- Today Mattel announced the third recall of toys in five weeks, this time after lead was found in over 800,000 Barbie doll accessories. The discovery of the tainted toys comes through Mattel's internal investigation of suppliers. China is responding to this and other safety scandals by launching an international PR...
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- The Fastest Growing Company in America is... ?
- Fortune Magazine released its list of the 100 fastest growing companies today. Which glamorous company topped the list? Forget shiny tech products or innovative start-ups. The number one fastest growing company was online diet company NutriSystem. Fortune offers the company's expanding men's business and its ads featuring former NFL superstar,...
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Scandal Ridden China Most Resembles ...?
- America in the 1880s was rife with scandals and shady business deals -- Charles Dickens railed against our counterfeiting, Germany banned our contaminated pork, an investigation in Boston found, among other crimes, milk bulked up with chalk. Does this sound vaguely familiar? In a fascinating article in...
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- China Blazes a Trail in Africa- Should American Businesses Follow?
- Recently, the BNET Intercom asked, with China investing heavily in Africa, should American firms consider looking to the continent for business opportunities? This week, articles in the New York Times and the Economist on the relationship between the Asian giant and the previously much-ignored continent provide further food for thought...
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Wal-Mart Plans Higher-End Stores
- This week Wal-Mart reported disappointing earnings for the second quarter and predicted more troubles to come, blaming its poor clothing and home decor products as well as higher energy prices and problems in the housing market for the subdued earnings outlook. Shares in the company promptly fell 5%. (For more...
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
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