Boudreaux's Butt Paste Sells Itself
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COVINGTON, La. - Retired Louisiana pharmacist George Boudreaux hasn't needed Madison Avenue pitchmen to get the word out about his concoction to treat diaper rash...
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Givaudan said that it had agreed to buy the Quest flavors and fragrance unit from Imperial Chemical Industries for Â£1.2 billion ($2.28 billion) to become the worldÂs largest maker of scents used in perfume. Quest had sales of Â£560 million ($1.1 billion) last year and a profit of Â£52 million. Givaudan, based in Geneva, said it would finance the acquisition by debt and by issuing up to 1 billion Swiss francs ($800 million) in new shares.
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Hate it when you fill 'er up and, five minutes later, spot another station selling gas for a nickel a gallon cheaper?    Jason Toews, a 30-year-old computer programmer from the Minneapolis suburbs, hated it even more when he couldn't find an easy way to shop around.    "I even tried calling up some of the stations to find out what their prices are and they usually didn't like to tell you over the phone," he said...
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You know how sometimes you find a product or service and just have to evangelize it to everyone you know? Maybe you really like the Braun Oral-B electric toothbrush.
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THE deal of the week was made by Knight Frank. It was not a piece of commercial property but a piece of human resource - it has poached Craig Watson from Cushman & Wakefield, Healey & Baker.
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ÂThe lingering, perceived essence of anotherÂ sounds like the subject of a Proustian rumination. In fact, it is a line from an academic paper last April in The Journal of Marketing, by Jennifer J. Argo, Darren W. Dahl, and Andrea C. Morales. The authors examined a phenomenon that drives store managers crazy: consumers love to touch products in stores, but they hate buying things others have touched.
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The company has earned its nosebleed valuation.
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These cosmetics makers have the ability to work investors into a lather.
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One new stock has left quite a footprint.
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A nickname - Bagel Boy - turned out to be the name of a company that Chuck Bouchrouche cofounded 15 years ago.
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Five years ago, a young Manitoba pharmacist fresh out of school started selling Nicorette chewing gum over e-Bay. From that modest beginning the Canadian online
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Calling all rehabbing starlets: Jean-Marc Houmard of Indochine has cordoned off a significant section of his beverage menu for nonalcoholic drinks.
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Bill McNally believes he has found a silver bullet for keeping the stink out of your socks. Not to mention your underwear, workout clothes, travel outfits, and hiking and hunting gear.
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Â· Cosmetic giant fined for recruitment campaign Â· First big French firm to be convicted of racial bias
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It's been a real thrill to watch Loic Le Meur roll out his new video community tool called Seesmic. He's got the French touch, a bit self-deprecating, he's good at seduction, keeps his ego in the background and puts the focus on the users, where it should be.  As he's been seeding people one by one, they create videos which then appear on Twitter (heh) so people who don't have Seesmic get an idea what it's like through the eyes of people they know. This immediately creates a feeling of envy, but if you beg Loic he gives you an activation code, and off you go -- ready to become his next evangelist. Feeling priviledged to be his next evangelist. It's like Tom Sawyer and the fence. He reminds me so much of Jean-Louis Gassee in his prime, when he had all the Mac developers wrapped around his finger, and loving it.  I have an idea of where Loic wants to go with this, and it's going to be big. It'll be a fun ride, and fun to watch a master promoter at work. PS: Here's my latest Seesmic video, a demo of FlickrRiver. You may have to turn up the audio to understand what I'm saying, or use headphones. We're going to do something fun with the people at Le Web 3 and FlickrRivr. Thanks to Loic for also having a curious mind.  PPS: Beware the exclusive.
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A naturally occurring hunk of magnetite in human noses helps people make their way in the world. In Bodyhack.
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I want ice cream! And pickles! And communications equipment! Companies like Marlboro and Coke-Cola have known for years that placing their products into films translates into big sales bucks. The latest such product placement is a hamburger phone, which features in new teens-up-the-duff movie Juno.â¦