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What goes around: customer financing seemed like a smart move when times were good. Now, it's wreaking havoc on corporate balance sheets - Cover Story It's no secret that customer financing has backfired badly on telecommunications-equipment suppliers. By the end of 2000, according to McKinsey & Co., ......(Continue Reading)Channel Stuffing: Keeping Distribution Arteries Clear - Industry Trend or Event Resellers often don't appreciate being forced to take on additional, possibly unwanted, inventory In the first of two articles on channel flow issues, ......(Continue Reading)LISTINGS APPRAISERS...(Continue Reading)America's Top 2000 Brands AMERICA'S TOP 2000 BRANDS 1997 1998 % Rank Brand total total chg 1 MCDONALD...(Continue Reading)Despite the recession, Americans continue their credit-loving ways Steven Yamamoto has lots of debt. The 24-year-old apartment-rental agent, whose annualincome is about $35,000, owes $28,000 on six credit cards....(Continue Reading) |