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From Africa to Asia, Colors (Colours) are Changing the Global Beauty Industry

 

 

"The State of the Global Beauty Industry: Entering a New Chapter"  by Euromonitor International, via YouTube.  Irina Barbalova, Euromonitor's head of cosmetics research, recapping her presentation made at In-Cosmetics 2010 in Paris, France.

 

MISS UNIVERSE CONTESTANTS might look like Barbie dolls in different shades. But beyond glitzy pageants, the colors (colours) of beauty are slowly but surely changing global consumer culture and the beauty industry, according to SkinInc.com ("Skin Color of the United States" by Daphne Kasriel-Alexander) and a new book by Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones (Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry).

Don't Bet Against the New AT&T and Ralph de la Vega, Corporate Street Fighter and Survivor

 

Ralph de la Vega, AT&T's CEO of Mobility and CTIA chairman, and AT&T Chairman Randall Stephenson talk about U.S. leadership in mobile broadband at the International CTIA Wireless 2010 conference in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., on Tuesday. Video courtesy of ShareATT on YouTube.

 

 

ANALYSTS AND JOURNALISTS love to pick apart deals, and the monster proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile has a shitload of skeptics. The $39 billion deal is big and complex. It faces anti-trust and political hurdles. Customers will hate it. Wireless coverage will suck. Blah blah, maybe yes, maybe no. If I were a betting guy, though, I wouldn't count out much-maligned AT&T, the lead in this corporate marriage. Why? Because the telecom giant has in its arsenal a not-so-secret weapon: Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of its wireless business. While most executives bungle big mergers, a handful have successfully brought together large companies and armies of employees, and de la Vega is one of them.

 

A Megatrend That's Not Going Away: Boston Consulting Group's "Global Challengers 2011"

 

  

"Giants" by Wolfgang Staudt, under a Creative Commons license on flickr. Staudt is a Germany-based photographer at wolfgangstaudt.de.

 

CoolGlobalBiz, Jan. 18, 2011

LIKE A VAST wave, you could see this business megatrend rising a decade or so ago. More revenues, more investments, more employees,  more R&D, more everything coming from fast-growing businesses overseas. Now, that trend -- the emergence of new companies in rapidly developing economies -- clearly is a powerful pillar of the global economy that will reshape the world, says the Boston Consulting Group, which has been studying global companies for many years.

 

New Year, New Dawn, 2011

  

"A New Decade" by Matthew Stewart, a photographer based in Brisbane, Australia.  Clicked past thousands of fireworks photos to find this fresh take on the New Year.  Under a Creative Commons license on flickr.

 

CoolGlobalBiz, Dec. 31, 2010

 

"While angels sing with pious mirth / A glad new year to all the earth."
                           - Martin Luther, "Vom Himmel Hoch." 
 

"I have had my invitation to this world's festival, and thus my life has been blessed."
                           - Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali.
 

"A journey of a thousand li begins right where one stands, even with the very first step."
                           - Tao Te Ching (Chapter 64).

 
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
                           - Thomas Paine, Common Sense.
 

 

• Associated Press, "Millions gather worldwide to ring in new year." 
• BBC, "Hogmanay crowds see in new year."
• CNN, "Latin America in 2011: Year of the female politician" by Rafael Romo.
• AFP, "Fireworks over Kremlin as Moscow joins global New Year party."
• AFP, "Hu pledges a peaceful, cooperative China in 2011."
• Vanguard, "The African challenge in 2011" by Owei Lakemfa.