BusinessWeek, Jan 23, 2012

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(1) Designed in China. Driven 'Round the World. GM and other carmakers are using mainland designs for global cars. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Jan 23, 2012 (cover date).
http://www.businessweek.com/maga ... es+&+industries

My comment: There is no need to read this report.

(2) Ola Kinnander, How to Cook Like Alain Ducasse. Luxe stove maker Molteni supplies star chefs and Russian oligarchs.
http://www.businessweek.com/maga ... es+&+industries

Electrolux "has a luxe brand too: Molteni, which makes really, really fancy stoves that start at €21,000 ($26,775) and can fetch up to €200,000 ($255,000).

"Molteni’s biggest markets are France, China, and the US. (Its wares are especially popular in Las Vegas.) 'Asia in general and China in particular' is growing fastest for Molteni, [head of Electrolux’s professional products division Alberto] Zanata says, spurred by the region’s embrace of luxury and by 'culinary trends becoming global.'

Note:
(a) Alain Ducasse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Ducasse
(1956-; born in France; now a chef in Monaco)
(b) Electrolux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolux
(As of 2010 the 2nd largest home appliance manufacturer in the world after Whirlpool; Formed from a 1918 cooperative agreement between sales company Svenska Elektron AB and kerosene lamp maker Lux AB; public; Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden; section 3 Brands: including Frigidaire and Molteni)
(c) The report talks about "Van Cleef & Arpel baubles." It should be "Arpels."

(i) Van Cleef & Arpels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Cleef_&_Arpels
("a French jewellery, watch, and perfume company that was founded in 1896 by Charles Arpels and Alfred Van Cleef. They opened their first boutique in 1906")
(ii)
From "History" of the official website:
http://www.vancleef-arpels.com/en/van-cleef.html?zone=am#/memory/

Quote:

"1896  The marriage of Estelle Arpels and Alfred Van Cleef.")

"1906  Alfred and his brother-in-law Charles found Van Cleef & Arpels and move into the prestigious Parisian boutique at 22 place Vendôme (1906). Soon after Julien Arpels joins Van Cleef & Arpels (1908). Louis Arpels enters the family business in 1913.

The Dutch surname Van Cleef is a variant of Van Cleve, which means "from the city of Cleves (German Kleve),
Kleve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleve
(historically known in English as Cleves and Kleef in Dutch; a German town near the Dutch border and the River Rhine; The name Kleve probably derives from the word cliff (German "Kliff"); Interestingly, Kleve was spelled with a "c" throughout its history until spelling reforms introduced in the 1930s required that the name be spelled with a "k")

(d) Molteni
http://www.molteni.com
(e) Regarding fourneaux bouilleurs, which is French, plural.

French-English dictionary:
(i) fourneau (noun-masculine): "furnace"
(ii) bouilleur (noun-masculine): "boiler"

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