Reading Time: < 1 minute John Mackey, the founder and CEO of Whole Food Markets (WFMI), allegedly used pen name “RahoDeb” (his wife name is Deborah) publishing his opinion on the stock at Yahoo Message Board. Here is the link to the mesages. Of course, the thing really hits news is his comments about competitors, such as Wild Oats and
Reading Time: 2 minutes 1) International: no secret here, as you can count the stores (more stores in India than China), from their web site www.crocs.com (international). The trick here is they expanded internationally at much early stage compared to Nike, etc., considering they are just a few years old. We can attribute partly to the globalization of economy
Reading Time: < 1 minute We all know Wal-mart calls its employee “associates”, today I noticed Starbucks calls its employee “partner”, from its annual report. We all know this is more a sloagn, or public relation, nonetheless it’s good public relation. Seriously, what is partner or partnership exactly. It’s almost like spouse. According to wikipedia, “A partnership is a type
Reading Time: < 1 minute AAPL: is Apple a computer maker, an eletronic (fashion) gadgets maker, or music store? It’s all of the above. I did not realized it’s the No. 3 music retailer in the US until a few weeks ago (behind Wal-mart and Best Buy). The reason is it created the digital music market: iTune. For graphical designers,
Reading Time: < 1 minute I wrote about Nike (NKE) a while ago during NBA finals. I joked about Nike is the loser in this NBA finals because their super star James’ team lost. Obviously in the real world Nike is doing very well, especially internationally (Europe and Asia, specificialy China). Here is their quarterly report. This is not surpising
Reading Time: 2 minutes Went to Chipotle Mexican Grill in my neighbourhood yesterday. I heard about it because of its stock (CMG) has done very well since IPO early last year (up 88%). I was curious about the food and the atmosphere so I went. It seems there are lots of young people, I mean people in 20s (Generation Y),
Reading Time: < 1 minute Brown Shoes goes to China (STLtoday): Brown Shoe Co. late Tuesday announced that it has entered a joint venture with a Chinese company to open more than 500 shoe stores in China by 2012. MSFT modifies source for Vista (Reuters): Microsoft Corp. has agreed to modify its new Vista operating system in response to complaints that
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is the definition from Per Dohler, a software localization guru: Localization is the process of adapting a product, in our context a software program, to a specific locale, i.e., to its language, standards and cultural norms as well as to the needs and expectations of a specific target market. A properly localized product also
Reading Time: 2 minutes I received an email from a friend asking me whether New Oriental Eudcation (EDU) will be a good investment or not. I was not warm to it initially, changed my mind and bought it in Jan., sold it in Feb., because I did not know how to evaluate it. First I want to say EDU is in a very
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is a link to their 27th annual conference. I only listened to CROX session. One thing come out of it is they just completed a $10 m plant in Dong’guan, China; and they have a design team in China, in addition to teams in US, Canada and Italy. Crocs employs 3,500 people worldwide at this time.
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