-
Kraft Foods slims its snack ads, vending machines get religion and sugar is not evil.
FORBES
-
Phillip Morris makes such brands as Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Chesterfield and Basic.
CNN: Obama signs bill putting tobacco products under FDA oversight
-
When the country stabilized, the Slims were a clan of considerable wealth.
WSJ: Emperor's New Museum | Museo Soumaya
-
Swiss bank UBS has announced it is cutting 10, 000 jobs worldwide as it tries to cut costs and slims down its investment banking activities.
BBC: UBS cuts 10,000 jobs as it slims down investment bank arm
-
When it comes to kicking the cigarette habit, the United States certainly has come a long way, baby, to borrow the old Virginia Slims tagline.
FORBES: E-Cigarettes Spark Interest Among Millennials
-
But he also blames targeted promotions by tobacco companies (like Virginia Slims targeting women in the 1970s and other brands targeting inner-city minority groups today) and the movies.
CNN: If smoking is so bad for you, who still does it?
-
This slims down the margin on sales considerably.
FORBES: Where Is Zegna Aiming With Its High Performance Watches?
-
That leaves it focused on the U.S. tobacco market, where it controls 49% of the retail cigarette market with its Marlboro, Virginia Slims, and Parliament brands, and 54.5% of the much smaller smokeless tobacco market with its Skoal and Copenhagen brands.
FORBES: No Time To Own Amazon, Autozone Or Marlboros
-
The new system which will underlie both consumer-focused iterations of Windows 8, simply dubbed v4, slims down the 768MB of disk space previously required on Vista for a significantly lighter 184MB (an average) footprint in Windows 8 and adds greater in-box support for more commonly used, contemporary printers -- specifically for Windows RT.
ENGADGET: Windows 8 streamlines printing, puts old architecture on the chopping block
-
Liberalisation of mobile phones, and the prospect of full competition in the industry from January next year, has created tens of thousands of new jobs many more than have been lost as Deutsche Telekom slims down. (Not all of these jobs are glamorous hi-tech ones: they include hundreds of men digging up streets to lay new cables).
ECONOMIST: German jobs