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Navigating a turnaround

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British Airways PLC CEO Robert Ayling is confident that his three-year turnaround plan will bring back the airline into profitability. The company has seen its stock price battered because of its heavy dependence on the trans-Atlantic market, where capacity is growing. Ayling's plan calls for the replacement of jumbo 747 aircraft with smaller 777s, luring more business-class customers with the fall 1999 offering of a new Club World 'flying bed' seat and strenghtening cooperation with its Oneworld alliance partners.

British Airways PLC

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Krispy Kreme's sweet on Britain

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Krispy Kreme, the phenomenally successful doughnut manufacturing company, plans to take its produce to the UK by October 2003 and top executives of the company hope to replicate their American success in Europe. The doughnuts will be first be stocked at the HarrodsEs department store, which will be the second store outside the US that will store the company's delicious doughnuts but there are many skeptics who are not sure whether doughnuts will sell in the land of chips and crisps.

Foreign operations, Bakery Products, Planning, Baked products industry, Baked goods industry, Company business planning, Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corp.

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Four new ventures that hope to take off

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Four start-up airlines that have launched or are launching their operations are hoping to beat the high odds of failures among new players in the industry. Access Air of Des Moines, IA, will start its flights in Dec 1998 while Coast of Portland, OR, will launch its operations in the 1st qtr 1999. Other new players are Northern Airlines of Syracuse, NY, and Shuttle America of Delaware.

Airlines

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