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THE INTEREST GRAPH

Sunglasses and socks were popular in our June issue:

“Making

everything

simpler is my

policy.”

“It’s like the

blind leading

the blind.”

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“I would

never bet

against Toni.”

KAZUHIRO TSUGA’S TURNAROUND

eff ort at Panasonic (June, p. 22) prompted

Jacob Geertsen to list further problems at

the Japanese giant: “The lack of making

Panasonic a cool marketing brand name;

Panasonic, now just a supplier with no brand

(at least with punch), didn’t understand how

to make a name or innovate for the people.

Tsuga should look at Akio Toyoda or risk

getting eaten slowly by the South Koreans

and Chinese brick by brick.” Andreas Nik

on Facebook was more supportive: “Keep

going, Tsuga. Panasonic just needs marketing,

intense marketing, nothing else.” Deoki Deora

had this meaty Web posting about Indian hotelier Anil Patodia’s Byke chain

(June, p. 44): “I have stayed in Byke Matheran with my family and everyone en-

joyed the stay. The rooms, staff , food and the hospitality in general were superb.

Very good chain of hotels and the best for vegetarians.”

CORRECTION: A column head in our Global 2000 list (June, p. 21) mistakenly said

the ranking was for 2015. It is for 2016.

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