Caffè e Gelato (Potsdamer Platz Arkaden Center, gelato-berlin.de) with pronto table service is immediately visible on the Arkaden's first floor as is Salomon Bagels (salomon-bagels.de) from where you can keep track of the festival action below.
The world's secondlargest sporting-goods maker, Adidas-Salomon A.G., said it would narrow its product range and streamline management to raise per-share earnings by 15percentt a year, starting in 2001.
The global sportswear and sports equipment maker Adidas-Salomon met its 2002 targets of 5percentt growth in sales and a 5percentto10percentcent gain in net profit, the company said.
One need only recall that in 1985 Phibro-Salomon (before its merger into Travellers and in turn into Citigroup) reported a 1984 writeoff of $307 from its oil investments in the Beaufort Sea (" Phibro-Salomon in Red: Huge Oil Wrte-Off Cited," L.A.Times 02.20.85) underlining that oil profits are not a one way street- being a sum that had a vastly different connotation then, than it would have today.
The German sportswear and equipment maker Adidas-Salomon said yesterday that it had completed an offer of 400 million euros ($435 million) in convertible bonds.
Adidas-Salomon said Wednesday that it will buy shoemaker Reebok International in a $3.8 billion deal, giving the company about 20% of the U.S. market and putting it in a position to better challenge leader Nike.
How important is the two-party system, specifically?Salomon Orellana, a political scientist at the University of Michigan, thinks it plays a big role.
SALOMON SMITH BARNEY, a unit of Citigroup Inc., New York, said it would acquire part of a portfolio of foreign currency loans and security worth about $156 million held by the Export-Import Bank of Korea.
When Leagas Delany chose San Francisco over New York for its first United States office in 1996, it did so in part to be nearer to a big client, Adidas-Salomon, which bases its American operations in Portland, Ore.
* CHARLOTTE SALOMON, Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, (212) 423-3200 (through March 25).
