Built smart: Patriots, Giants owe Super roots to draft
The News Review:
- Built smart: Patriots, Giants owe Super roots to draft
- Around the Horn: Outfielders
- Google launches YouTube in S Korea
- Ulster’s £1m boost to net new stars
- Hot sectors you can bet your money on
Built smart: Patriots, Giants owe Super roots to draft
USA Today - Jan 23, 2008
Meanwhile, eight new Patriots came aboard via free agency, with Thomas the crown jewel. Still, 25 of New England’s 53 players are home-grown draftees. “Quality players are always the most important thing. And that’s developed first and foremost in the draft. “New England is the poster child for drafting well and then picking up players who can fill spots for them.
Around the Horn: Outfielders
MLB.com - Jan 23, 2008
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With the home-grown Cabrera remaining in pinstripes for now, manager Joe Girardi inherits something of a dilemma concerning left field and how to split time between Damon and Matsui, two veterans with legitimate claims to the position. Hampered by injuries through much of the first half, Damon found a refuge in left field last season, making 31 starts there and batting. 348 (46-for-132) in those games. While he made little secret of the fact that he would prefer to be playing center field, Damon kept alive a string of 140 or more games played in 12 consecutive seasons and also managed to remain off the disabled list, despite painful calf cramps, hamstring and back issues that required chiropractic attention.
Google launches YouTube in S Korea
Economic Times - Jan 23, 2008
Users
can upload, view, and share video clips through YouTube, which was bought by the
world’s top Internet search engine Google in 2006. YouTube became
well known in South Korea after a video clip of a self-taught amateur Korean
guitarist playing Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” received more than 36 million clicks
worldwide last year. But it faces tough competition with home-grown
user-created content sites, which have dominated the local market. Yonhap quoted Lee Won-Jin, CEO of Google Korea, as saying the launch
of YouTube here would help spread the country’s popular culture and video
content worldwide. Google launched a Korean-language search site in
2000 but has been striving to boost its presence against competition from local
firms in one of the world’s most wired societies.
Ulster’s £1m boost to net new stars
Belfast Telegraph - Jan 23, 2008
With an estimated build-time of 10 months, the new stand, which will slightly reduce the capacity of the terrace but will feature 19 corporate boxes, 550 extra seats, a large bar and restaurant, should be completed by August 2009 in time for the new season. Building will start in September but the ground will largely be unaffected for next season’s matches. Current projections indicate that the capital expenditure will be paid off after three years, at which stage it will generate £750,000 per year in extra income to fund the recruitment of future overseas stars and help keep Ulster biggest home grown players at Ravenhill. "We are trying to build a club of corporate people who buy into Ulster Rugby for five years at different levels," revealed Ulster Branch chief executive Michael Reid. "Realistically to drive this thing forward we really need to add another £1m to that. "A lot of people have said they would like to help us and support us and in the next few weeks we will be a bit clearer about what we can ask those people to actually do for us. "We would like to bring in four world class players for next season.
Hot sectors you can bet your money on
Economic Times - Jan 23, 2008
This, however, usually
calls for a shift in entire households, creating a need for quality moving and
packing. Agarwal Packers & Movers helps transport about 45,000 households
every year, and Ramesh Agarwal , joint managing director, DRS Group, admits that
potential is large as currently only about 30% of this market is organised. Since 2001, the company has
grown 35% year-on-year and Agarwal is bullish. Areef Patel, executive
vice-chairman , Patel Roadways , puts things in perspective: “The
logistics industry in India is nearly Rs 300,000 crore, but is mostly
fragmented. However, with consolidation taking place, this is fast changing. With the introduction of VAT and MODVAT, a lot of unscrupulous players have been
wiped out,” he says. Patel Roadways is the market leader, and in the last
five years, the company has grown roughly Rs 1,000 crore, with last year’s
turnover alone being Rs 300 crore… ” Santosh Kanekar, head of marketing, Diageo, looks at it a bit
differently. “The customer will pay a premium because he gets motivated
enough by the branding exercises and may find it important to possess this new
thing not just for utility reasons, but also for status. ”
For those Indian consumers
who’ve embraced health foods, Bagrry’s is pretty much a household
name, even though many of them may not recognise the brand as being a home-grown
one. Not that they can be faulted for this; after all, in most Indian
supermarkets and large format retails stores, Bagrry’s jostles for shelf
space with the likes of international breakfast cereal brands like Express,
Kellogg’s , Kraft Foods’ Post and PepsiCo’s Quaker Oats, to
name a few. It’s no small credit to Bagrry’s that the 13-year-old
Indian brand shares mind space with well-known global brands. For that matter,
Bagrry’s was the cereal brand that many calorie-conscious Indians were
first introduced to, until two years ago, Bagrry’s was virtually the lone
player in the healthy high-fibre breakfast cereal space. The
breakfast cereal market in India is estimated to be worth roughly Rs 250-Rs 300
crore, and includes a wide range of products including wheat and oat bran, wheat
porridge and cornflakes.