Filed under: Local News
By: Issa Sikiti da Silva
In future, the shop floor will become the market’s principal battleground, as traditional mass media fail to deliver the required advertising effectiveness. This is the opinion of Steven Keith Platt, the Chicago-based director of the Platt Retail Institute, who delivered his last presentation on American retail to local marketers on 7 July, 2006 in Johannesburg, on behalf of Johnnic Communications’ Newspapers Division and IBM.
Filed under: International News
The high-tech wounder company has landed – not only on our street corners and in our malls, but also for the first time, on the top 10 of Fortune’s Most Admired Companies.
FORTUNE Magazine
By Jerry Useem, Fortune contributing editor
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US private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Italian billionaire Stefano Pessina this week won the takeover battle for Britain’s biggest pharmacy chain, Alliance Boots, with an 11.1-billion Pound cash (11.39 Pound per share) offer. KKR and Pessina, who is Alliance Boots’ deputy chairman and largest share holder, beat a rival bid from a group that included Terra Firma Capital Partners and the Wellcome Trust, a medical charity.
