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How they boost income: 18-July-08

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McDonald's in Europe is upgrading the customer experience: 1. It refurbished the chain's outlets there 2. It created a McDonald's design studio outside Paris to come up with a range of eight design packages from which franchisees can choose. 3. It has replaced the bold red-and-yellow plastic signage with muted facades in dark olive and yellow...

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How they boost income: 17-July-08

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Ebay, the world's largest Internet auctioneer, losing market share to rivals such as Amazon.com, seeks to improve its fixed-price online retail business, grow PayPal and bolster customer safety and trust: 1. It made major changes to its business - a new fee structure based on a percentage of the sale price of items, system of rating sellers, and...

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How they control cost: 17-July-08

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Host Hotels & Resorts Inc., the owner of about 130 properties in the U.S. and Europe: 1. It may accelerate share buybacks because of the drop in its stock price 2. It is reducing restaurant hours 3. It is reducing staff 4. It is scaling back discretionary spending 5. It does not expect to buy any U.S. hotels this year 6. It is trying to sell about...

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How they boost income: 16-July-08

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Steelmakers are stepping up overseas takeovers of coal and iron ore mines to combat record commodity prices and ensure that they have access to sufficient supplies: 1. PT Krakatau Steel, Indonesia's largest steelmaker will buy stakes in overseas iron ore producers, preferably in Australia, to secure supplies. 2. ArcelorMittal aims to control about...

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How they control cost: 16-July-08

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Western companies, plagued by rising costs of moving work to India for the labor-cost reductions are seeking more predictable costs in a time of volatile currency and salary shifts: 1. They are increasingly outsourcing their offshore operations to Indian tech-services specialists. More than 150 companies have shifted in the past few years from running...

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How they boost income: 15-July-08

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General Electric, giant engineering company: 1. It is unveiling a retro engine design for the business air travel market promoting a less glitzy technology, a propeller-driven engine as the turboprop market is enjoying a resurgence as an efficient alternative to fuel-thirsty jet engines. 2. It will modernize the engine designs of 85-year-old Czech manufacturer...

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How they control cost: 15-July-08

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General Motors, the world's biggest carmaker, facing falling U.S. sales and Wall Street's demands for cutting some of its eight brands and more action to stem its losses: HR cuts 1. It will slash white-collar salaried worker costs by 20% by cutting jobs and retiree health-care benefits. It will use mostly early retirement and attrition programs...

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How they boost income: 14-July-08

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InBev an aggressive Belgian brewer, the world's second-largest beer-maker behind SABMiller: 1. It will buy Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc., largest brewer in the U.S., for $52 billion to create a stronger, more competitive global company with an unrivaled worldwide brand portfolio and distribution network, with great potential for growth all over the world...

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Pick of the Week 7

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INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES Macquarie Group Ltd., Australia's biggest investment bank: 1. It is focusing on Korea-U.S. cross- border transactions and is stepping up its help to Korean investors in finding U.S. targets because South Korean companies escaped the worst of the U.S. subprime mortgage implosion. 2. It also aims to help Korean firms gain...

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How they boost income: 11-July-08

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Apple, converging technology company, seeking to catch up with Research In Motion Ltd.'s Blackberry: 1. It will turn the iPhone into Apple's third major business alongside the Macintosh computer and iPod media player. 2. It wants to sell 10 million iPhones this year. 3. It is quadrupling the markets for the new iPhone by going on sale in 22...

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How they control cost: 11-July-08

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General Electric Co., the second-largest U.S. company by market value: 1. It is disposing of $100 billion of financial assets to revive GE shares after a surprise first-quarter profit drop in April. 2. It will sell its Japan consumer lending operations to Shinsei Bank Ltd. for about $5.5 billion because Japan's consumer lending industry has been...

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How they boost income: 10-July-08

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Apple, converging technology company: 1. It is launching iPhone 3G across much of Europe on July 11 2. It has upgraded the iPhone 3G with GPS and support for faster connections 3. It has lowered the price for an entry-level model with 8 gigabytes of memory to roughly $199, to pitch the phone directly to the Continent's mass market, 4. It has loaded...

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How they boost income: 09-July-08

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Tullow Oil Plc, the U.K. explorer with the most licenses in Africa: 1. It is focusing on exploration in Uganda and Ghana 2. It will pump 70,000 to 72,000 barrels of oil and gas a day this year 3. It is bringing three drilling rigs to Ghana to explore the Jubilee field and the first will start oil production in 2010. 4. It will continue exploration in...

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How they control cost: 09-July-08

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Western publishers plagued by declining print readership and advertising as readers keep switching to online media: 1. Some like Orange County Register Communications outsource work to Indian companies like copyediting firm Mindworks directly 2. Others like Thomson Reuters do their outsourcing in-house - Thomson Reuters has moved basic Wall Street reporting...

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How they boost income: 08-July-08

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Macquarie Group Ltd., Australia's biggest investment bank: 1. It is focusing on Korea-U.S. cross- border transactions and is stepping up its help to Korean investors in finding U.S. targets because South Korean companies escaped the worst of the U.S. subprime mortgage implosion. 2. It also aims to help Korean firms gain interests in resources and...

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