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Show's far from over for Oprah's brand power

Oprah Winfrey, the show, is ending, but not necessarily Oprah the brand. And Oprah is one monster of a brand. The 55-year-old Ms. Winfrey, who held back tears yesterday as she told viewers she's killing her popular talk show in 2011 after a 25-year run, ...

From BARRIE MCKENNA, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Forbes Magazine,  Northwestern University,  Sarah Palin

The sweet logic behind Hershey-Ferrero deal

G ulping down a Caramilk bar, a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and some Nutella spread may sound like a recipe for indigestion. But for chocolate makers Hershey Co. of Hershey, Pa., and Italy's Ferrero International SA , swallowing the much larger Cadbury ...

From BARRIE MCKENNA, Globe and Mail,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Kraft Foods Inc.,  Bloomberg News,  Nestle

Shoppers tight-fisted in sluggish economy

I t used to take months for must-read books to end up in the bargain bin. Now with recession-weary consumers demanding deals, many of them start there. Want the latest from John Grisham or Andre Agassi's new tell-all autobiography? Both books are ...

From BARRIE MCKENNA, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wal-Mart,  John Grisham,  Andre Agassi,  Amazon.com,  David Kelly

Convictions rare in regulators' battle against a near-invisible crime

b mckenna@globeandmail.com Martha Stewart's downfall began when she avoided a $50,000 (U.S.) loss by dumping her ImClone shares before the stock tanked on some bad news. She went to jail in 2004 for lying to investigators about the circumstances of the ...

From BARRIE MCKENNA, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Martha Stewart,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Securities and Exchange Commission,  Galleon Group,  Wall Street Journal

Wal-Mart's lopsided global comeback

T here's barely a hint of the worst recession since the Second World War in Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s third-quarter results: Profit and revenue are firmly on the rise again. Scratch a little deeper, however, and the picture is quite different. The U.S. ...

From BARRIE MCKENNA, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wal-Mart,  McDonald's

The sorry state(ment) of a former banker

b mckenna@globeandmail.com Sorry has so many meanings. There's the "sorry" you blurt out when you inadvertently jostle someone in a crowd. Or the heartfelt "I'm really sorry" you offer to a wronged a friend. And there's the pointed barb of "I'm sorry I ...

From BARRIE MCKENNA, Globe and Mail,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Citigroup,  U.S. Congress,  John Reed,  Bloomberg News

United States jobless numbers rise again

More than one out of every 10 Americans in the work force is now unemployed, as the jobless rate jumped to 10.2 per cent in October from 9.8 per cent in September. It's the first breach of the 10-per-cent mark in more than 26 years. The last time ...

From BARRIE MCKENNA, Globe and Mail,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Michael Jackson,  McDonald's,  Microsoft Corporation,  White House

Wall Street insider trading probe widens

T hey spoke in code, on hard-to-trace prepaid cellphones. They adopted nicknames, like “The Greek.” And they made secret drops of bags of cash on busy Manhattan streets. U.S. prosecutors charged 14 people, including prominent Wall Street lawyers and ...

From BARRIE MCKENNA, Globe and Mail,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Axcan Pharma Inc.,  Raj Rajaratnam,  Galleon Group,  Martha Stewart,  HBO

Easy money trumps inflation fears at Fed

Walking an increasingly fine line between too much easy money and sustaining a fragile recovery, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has opted to keep pumping record volumes of credit into the world's largest economy. Ben Bernanke and his Fed colleagues ...

From BARRIE MCKENNA, Globe and Mail,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Reserve,  Ben Bernanke,  Ashworth, Inc.,  Simon Johnson,  International Monetary Fund

Big Business under siege

Newsflash: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, bastion of Big Business and free enterprise, drops its staunch opposition to climate change legislation and embraces a carbon tax. It is, of course, untrue. But for a brief interlude last month, that's exactly ...

From BARRIE MCKENNA, Globe and Mail,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  CNBC,  New York Times Company

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