Scoring a few quick laughs in an interview by mocking your competition is a tradition that has a long and noble history of coming back to sink its teeth into a CEO’s posterior. Take for example Time Warner’s CEO Jeff Bewkes, who was asked by The New York Times in 2010 what he thought of the threat posed by Netflix. Bewkes said: "It’s a little bit like: is the Albanian army going to take over the world? I don’t think so." Well those Albanian tanks are surely rolling down the high street now.Citizens of China, Crimea, North Korea and Syria are unable to sign up, but anybody else can access its huge library of content for a modest monthly subscription. It’s a pure numbers game, with over 100m subscribers worldwide and an extra 4m expected to sign up in the third quarter.Taste Holdings swallows a bitter pill The exceptionally tough economic conditions and vanishing disposable income are hitting the consumer right in that most sensitive of areas, the stomach. Famous Brands announced last...
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