Yes, but can we afford it?
“There’s a certain price to be paid for the kind of prosperity we enjoy today.”
Irish President Mary McAleese, discussing the challenge of how fast-changing societies full of time-starved two-worker families can maintain traditions.
Maybe a vanilla raspberry beer?
“We’re directly competing for a share of the stomach with all the vodka flavors.”
Molson Coors chief executive Leo Kiely, explaining that the fickle tastes of younger consumers is one of the causes of the company’s $30.2 million first quarter loss.
Not-so-sweet nothings
“Maybe we could take off the ‘R’ and call it a ‘Sample,’ but we’ve always called our product the ‘Sampler.”‘
Elise Macmillan, co-founder of the Chocolate Farm, a Denver based chocolatier that has received a cease-and-desist demand from Russell Stover Candies to stop using the word “sampler.” It has for decades claimed exclusive use of the term as it applies to chocolates.
