from the Latin Quo Vadimus. Where are we headed? And do we know why? Analysis and features that help connect us by EU-based, US journalist Denis Campbell and colleagues.

Posts Tagged ‘Business’

Top 10 Recent Business Headlines

By Denis Campbell • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Business

10. Wii Fit women leave $20 million dollar toll of destruction to living rooms
It was meant to get the nation back in shape in the comfort of our own homes - but women working out on the Nintendo Wii Fit video game have helped cause £20 million of damage to their living rooms. Flower pots, […]



Delta/NW Combined $10.5 Billion Dollar Loss

By Denis Campbell • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Business

The late Senator Everett Dirksen said, “a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.” When two airlines who cannot make it alone talk about merging and faced with these kind of losses, the question that is not asked but should be is, why?



Somebody’s Watching Me and You!

By Denis Campbell • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Features

I’ve become hyper-cautious with Internet click-through ads. Unless I know the website to where I am being pointed, I just say no. Back in ’00 I pulled a team out of a web development contract because of



Toys in Shoes - Marketing Run Amok

By Denis Campbell • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Features

Over a school holiday term break we headed to SE England to temporarily escape the Welsh monsoon season (when friends visit from abroad and comment on how lushly green everything is here, I say, “it’s mold”).
After a week eating sign advertised “Great British Food” (your pun goes here about this oxy-moron) in



The Long and Winding Road to Service Hell

By Denis Campbell • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Business

37-years ago, I began my first job working after-school in a family owned market. 89-year old founder Angelo Tedeschi was wheeled by pushchair through each store talking with customers and employees (most of whom he knew by name). He asked about everyone’s family and checked the condition of the store with his name on the […]



The Coveted Golden Toilet Award

By Denis Campbell • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

SO did you require an extra cuppa after watching Hollywood’s Oscars until 5am?
Who got your vote? How did you do against the other punters? Were you glued to the tube watching breathless reportage of celebrity parties?



Service the Rochester Way

By Denis Campbell • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Innovators

CASUAL Male Group’s Rochester Big and Tall chain has had my custom for 20 years. As my girth crept upwards, the US firm’s selection is hard to duplicate.
Their hallmark is providing exceptional one-to-one in-store service through dedicated and



Where there’s sport there’s big money

By Denis Campbell • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Features

NEXT week spring training wraps and harkens an annual rite, baseball’s Opening Day, with the US regular season beginning in Tokyo!
Its annual 2,450-game slog towards October’s World Series, which, most duly note, isn’t a “world” series since only