Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Mar 10, 2013 (2)

choi

I will finish tomorrow, including (7) missing today.
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(3) Caroline Winter, Amazon's Gay-Friendly Ad Doesn't Rewrite the Book. (slideshow)
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... nt-rewrite-the-book

Note: In print, the Amazon ad have two talk bubbles: The woman says, "My husband is bringing me a drink * * * "  The man responds, "So is mine."

(4) Clementine Fletcher, Will China Get a Kick From Champagne?
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... gne-tastes-in-china

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: As sales fall in Europe, vintners count on status-conscious Chinese
(b) summary in Table of Contents: France has champagne wishes for China
(c) In print, the photo of Chinese men in suits toasting has an arrow pointing the wine followed by "24%  China's share of global cognac sales,"
(d) Bar Rouge Shanghai
www.bar-rouge-shanghai.com/
has no Chinese name.

* The report says, "There, Champagne bottles are served with sparklers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkler
(e) The report indicates, "Now Champagne makers * * * have come up with a strategy to keep their business from going flat: boost sales in China."

flat (adj):
"7c : lacking effervescence or sparkle <flat ginger ale>
d : commercially inactive; also : characterized by no significant rise or decline from one period to another <sales were flat>
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flat
(f) Armand (name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_(name)
(a French variant of Herman)
(g) Pernod Ricard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernod_Ricard
(produces distilled beverages; Headquarters Paris)

Section 1 History:

"1805 – Maison Pernod Fils (simply known as Pernod Fils) was founded * * * in eastern France by Henri-Louis Pernod, a French distiller of Francophone Swiss origin

"1932 – Ricard * * * was founded in Marseille by Paul Ricard [1909-1997; French].

"1975 – Old rivals Pernod and Ricard merged to form Pernod Ricard SA.

* French
Maison (adj): "home-made"
(noun feminine): "house, home, firm"


(5) Ma Jie and Yuki Hagiwara, At Japan's Carmakers, Men Lead, Women Follow.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... n-managers-are-rare

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/20 ... to-japan-sales.html

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Toyota and Honda have less than 1 percent female managers
(b) Women get the back seat at Japan's carmakers
(c) Excerpt in the window of print: 
2.9%  Share of femanagers at large companies in Japan in 2011
(d) MA Jie 馬 傑 (I copy from Bloomberg Japan' website, with 馬 in kanji)
Yuki HAGIWARA 萩原 ゆき (a woman)
(e) bring up the rear:
"to be at the back of a group which is going somewhere"
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus, by Cambridge University Press.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ ... h/bring-up-the-rear

Why? Americans do not know, either. Etymology? I can't find.
(f) Mie MINAKUCHI  水口 美絵
* Japanese Wiki: "水口（みなくち、みずぐち）とは、水の出入り口のこと。特に水田における取り入れ口を指す."

translation: 水口 is where water comes in and out, especially that in a rice paddy.
(g) Yoko YANAI  柳井 洋子 (yanagi 柳【やなぎ】(n): "willow")
(h) Sachiko AOKI  (I can not find her Japanese name)
(i) Rika KIRITAKE  桐竹 里佳
* kiri 桐 【きり】 (n) "paulownia tree; Paulownia tomentosa"
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulownia
(genus; native to much of China, south to northern Laos and Vietnam, and long cultivated elsewhere in eastern Asia, notably in Japan and Korea)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulownia_tomentosa
(j) Toshiyuki SHIGA  志賀 俊之


(6) Sapna Maheshwari, Forget Training Bras, Girls Want Lingerie.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... are-buying-lingerie

Note: summary underneath the title in print: Even tweens are flocking to intimate apparel



(8) Susan Berfield, Raytheon's Blimp That Saved Washington.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... mps-over-washington

My comment:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Missile-seeking blimps will get a test run guarding the Capitol
(b) There is no need to read the text.

(9) Alison Vekshin, Silicon Valley Is High on Innovation. And Pot.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... ovation-dot-and-pot

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: San Jose's 102 marijuana shops have a loyal clientele
(b) Just take a look at the map. There is no need to read the text.

(10) Bruce Eihorn, YouTube's Search for the Next Gangnam Style.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... -next-gangnam-style

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: With China off-limits, Google's video arm is expanding elsewhere
(b) Just view the graphic. There is no need to read the text.
* VEVO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vevo
* Dwango  株式会社ドワンゴ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwango_(company)
* FC2, Inc  FC2株式会社

choi

* I misread the cover. The issue was Mar 4-10, 2013. I should have said in my TITLE: "Mar 4, 2013."
* I will put (7) in another posting titled "Guns"--hopefully comes out today.
* The last item in the issue I hope to introduce:

Logan Hill, With God As Your Wingman; Spark Networks, owner of Christian Mingle and JDate, is betting on the divine power of online matchmaking.

Excerpt in the window of print: JDate offers an option for gays; Christian-Mingle does not.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... e-gods-your-wingman

My comment: There is no need to read the text. Just view the "slideshow," the top icon to the left of text.