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City AM, September 2, 2010 — TESCO is one of at least ten bidders circling for the Asian assets of French retail giant Carrefour.
The Thai, Malaysian and Singaporean operations owned by Carrefour are being offloaded – offering Tesco an expansion of its Asian operation. Under its Tesco Lotus banner it is already a major player in Asia with hypermarkets in Thailand.
Brandchannel.com, August 30, 2010 — After months of what seemed to be nothing more than posturing and delaying the inevitable, the movie rental retailer is finally readying itself to declare bankruptcy
Mashable, July 29, 2010 — comScore's whitepaper says that women spend more time on social networking websites than men, among other findings. View the original whitepaper here.
Brandchannel.com, July 27, 2010 — BP confirmed that Robert Dudley is taking over as CEO on Oct. 1. As expected, Tony Hayward will exit and assume a new post with BP's joint venture in Russia, TNK-BP. The oil giant also reported a $17.2 billion quarterly loss due to the oil spill, the biggest in British corporate history.
Citywire, July 5, 2010 — Lloyds Banking Group shareholders are putting the company under pressure to sell Scottish Widows before new Basel rules are put in place in a deal which could be worth up to £7 billion, according to reports.
Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2010 — Danone explores the 'bottom of the pyramid' after spending years building businesses targeted at the top
Marketing, June 29, 2010 — Brands need to make consumers' lives better if they are to achieve long-term success, according to Marc Pritchard, P&G's global marketing and brand building officer.
Advertising Age, June 23, 2010 — Few brands engender as much social-media fury as the iPhone's exclusive carrier. Facebookers and the twitterati adore the devices but despise the service lags and dropped calls. Almost every day during the first half of last year, #attfail and "AT&T sucks" were regular trending topics on Twitter. Just last week, the twit again hit the fan as customers kvetched that they couldn't process new iPhone preorders on the carrier's website.
Advertising Age, June 21, 2010 — As marketing professionals, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about our respective brands — how to build, strengthen and evolve them to drive customer loyalty. But I believe there's a lot more to it than that, and it has to do with purpose.
A brand has to have a reason for being. It should make a difference in the world in some way. Moreover, a brand has to have an organization that powers it — an organization that is passionate and committed to bringing that brand to life in all facets of the company.
Citywire, June 15, 2010 — Selfridges has today been named the world’s best department store.
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