The pouches were manufactured by two French companies--Andros, which makes fruit juices and the Bonne Maman brand jam, and Materne, another jam-maker.

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Materne entered the U.S. market last summer.

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He discovered a trade publication called Flexible Packaging and in it, found a manufacturer in California that could recreate the pouches used by Andros and Materne: a blend of recyclable, food-grade plastic and aluminum, with a resealable pouch that could hold 90 grams of applesauce.

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Evercore Partners analyst Kirk Materne this afternoon trimmed his EPS estimates for Microsoft for the next couple of quarters to reflect the current shortage of hard-disk drives that has resulted from the recent Thai floods, plus lower gross margin assumptions to reflect increased investment in services and online and a greater revenue contribution from the entertainment and devices segment.

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