Tell me about Project Last Mile, Coke’s effort to get medicine to remote locations while lowering costs?
This project began by a very simple question: “Why can’t we get these medicines out there and Coca-Cola can be everywhere?” Coca-Cola, I’ll give you, is one of the widest and most effective logistics and distributions systems in the world. We work tirelessly every day to make it better, to make it more efficient, to ensure that we can actually satisfy every week 20 million points of sale, retailers around the world that we call on with our fleet of delivery vehicles. So we do get to the last mile, we do get to different smaller villages.
SPARKS, Nev. — Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has announced the acquisition of 3S Certification and 3S Engineering of Wichita, Kansas. The privately owned 3S Certification holds a Federal Aviation Administration authorized Organization Designation Authorization (ODA). Since its inception in 2006, the company has provided subject matter experts specializing in avionics and cabin equipment modifications and certification. In the last two years, the company has expanded to include an ODA, which provides the authority for approval of Supplemental Type Certificates for aircraft modifications.
WASHINGTON — The Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, approved $250 million in financing to support investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Turkey, two sectors vital to the country’s economic growth which have traditionally lacked access to long-term capital.
The Desperate Housewives of Wisteria Lane have a new address: Istanbul’s Gul Street. In Russia, Peg and Al Bundy of Married … With Children have morphed into Gena and Dasha, who squabble in their apartment in Yekaterinburg rather than a suburban home near Chicago. And Sony (SNE) this summer released an Arabic version of Everybody Loves Raymond to coincide with the heavy Ramadan TV-viewing season, proving that dysfunctional families know no borders.
