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Market highlights for next week: Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley reporting earnings

Posted Jun 13th 2008 6:05PM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Annual meetings, Adobe Systems (ADBE), Best Buy (BBY), Hershey Co (HSY), FedEx Corp (FDX), Morgan Stanley (MS),

Monday, June 16

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH) reporting Q2 earnings; conference call at 10:00 am.
Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) to discuss new GPU products at 1:00 pm.
Lime Energy Co. (NASDAQ: LIME) to discuss acquisition of Applied Energy Management at 4:00 pm.
Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) reporting Q2 earnings; conference call at 5:00 pm.

Tuesday, June 17

La-Z-Boy Inc. (NYSE: LZB) to report Q4 earnings; conference call at 8:30 am.
The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) to hold business update conference call at 8:30 am.
Best Buy Inc. (NYSE: BBY) to report Q1 earnings; conference call at 10:00 am.

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Anheuser-Busch to launch lime-flavored beer . . . eew

Posted Feb 12th 2008 4:40PM by Jonathan Berr (RSS feed)
Filed under: Products and services, Consumer experience,

When I first saw the story in The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that Anheuser-Busch Cos. (NYSE: BUD) planned to sell lime-flavored Bud Light, I thought the king of beers had gotten a little soft in the head. Then I feared for the country when I learned that rival SABMiller Plc. (LON: SAB) is gaining sales with a revolting-sounding beverage called Miller Chill which the Journal described as a "lime-and-salt-flavored light lager modeled after Mexican concoctions know as micheladas."

It seems that at some point in the 1980s or 1990s, people no longer drank beer just because they were thirsty. Instead, they needed to make a lifestyle choice. Smart, sophisticated people needed to show how cool they were by drinking overpriced imports or microbrews. I was not immune to the marketing of the time and wound up drinking a few brews with limes wedged into them until I learned better.

Former advertising executive John Greening, who did work for Anheuser-Busch, raised a more serious issue, pointing out, "their hot hand has always been Bud Light. This takes the attention away from the hot hand."

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