Moinak Mitra, The Economic Times - Running a $48 billion company is not a joke, particularly when the brand in question is Coca-Cola. For five years now, Muhtar Kent, the Turkish-American Chairman & CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, has been doing it with purpose, pragmatism and panache. The 61 year-old New York-born CEO has faith in the "golden triangle" of business, government and civil society — or neo-capitalism, as is evident from this exclusive conversation he recently had with CD. Kent bubbles over his rise from the ranks while pouring a sparkling dose of neocapitalism Edited excerpts:
ANKARA — Turkey selected a local shipyard to award the country’s first-ever contract for the acquisition of a Landing Platform Dock (LPD), a deal industry sources estimated at about $500 million. Turkey’s procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), announced on its web page late Dec. 27 that it picked up Sedef Gemi Insaati A.S., a privately-owned Istanbul shipyard, to open contract negotiations for the LPD program.
Dr. Mehmet Oz will be moving his popular talk show from Fox 5 to WSB-TV in the fall of 2014, replacing Katie Couric's talk show, WSB-TV general manager Tim McVay confirmed. Couric's show, which debuted in the fall of 2012 and airs weekdays on WSB-TV at 3 p.m., will not be back this fall after it failed to break into the top echelon of talk shows. While ratings weren't bad, Deadline.com reported that it was a very pricey show to produce and license.
After Whole Foods announced it won't sell Chobani yogurt starting next year, Chobani's CEO told CNBC on Thursday that it will not hurt the business. "We grew about 30 percent this year, and we wanted to grow more and more places, not less places," Chobani's CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya, told CNBC.
