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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C'est un Ã©diteur! The Buttock has successfully sued MySpace for copyright infringement. Late last month, a French High Court ruled that the popular U.S.-based social networking site acts as a publisher as well as a hosting service, making it liable for unauthorized broadcasts of films from the French comedian known as "Lafesse." Yes, that's how it translates.â¦
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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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Pat Riley&#039;s experiment is about to be put to the test.
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I want ice cream! And pickles! And communications equipment! Companies like Marlboro and Coke 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¦
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El-Hadji Diouf is back doing what he appears to do best - spitting on people. Not content with covering a variety of fans with spittle he has now targeted his fellow professionals.
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A product named Egyptian Magic, sold mainly by word of mouth, attracts celebrities.
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Wholesale division goes into overdrive
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DETROIT -- The incentives were on the wall. Literally. Before yesterday's game at Joe Louis Arena against the mighty Detroit Red Wings, the club with the second-best home record in the NHL, the numbers went up on the grease board in the visiting dressing room.
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These cosmetics makers have the ability to work investors into a lather.
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Parlux Fragrance's accelerating sales has it smelling like a champ.
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The pharmaceutical giant is selling its pain relievers and other consumer products.
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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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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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Parisian Julien Grollemund is living proof that American coffee-to-go chain Starbucks ( SBUX ) has a shot at taking hold, even in famously leisure-loving France.
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Please quote me on this Stob There's another of those lists of supposedly amusing/sage/cute adagesÂ going around, bouncing from blog to email, accumulating fresh contributions and occasional edits and doing all the meme-ish things that memes do. This one differs from all the others that you have deleted irritably from your email inbox in that it includes a contribution taken from this very column.â¦
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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.