Apple's fecundity - born of continual and artful innovation in every aspect of its business - has foisted profound changes not only upon infotech but upon many adjacent industries, for example, at the height of his creative and promotional powers, Jobs orchestrated Apple's over-the-top entry into the cellular telephone business with the iPhone, a lozenge of glass and aluminum encasing a do-everything digital device. Jobs says. "We think about creating new innovative products that will surprise and delight our customers. Happy and loyal customers are what give Apple its 'power.'
A decade later, the company has 11 giant papermaking machines, 5,300 employees, $1 billion in annual revenue and a huge facility under construction. Reported profits last year rose a whopping 349 percent to $175 million. Nine Dragons is now one of the world’s fastest growing paper companies. By 2008, Nine Dragons could be No. 1. “My goal is to make Nine Dragons, in three to five years, the leader in containerboards,” Ms. Zhang says emphatically “My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.”
Donatella is just as famous for her celebrity entourage and glittering parties. Even Prince Charles attends Donatella's parties for the famous and elite throughout Europe. Branching into other fields, the company has created the grand, luxurious Palazzo Versace resort on the Gold Coast of Australia. Another growing symbol of the Versace style, the world's tallest hotel, the Burj al-Arab in Dubai, boasts a broad collection of Versace furniture and beddings in its expensive and lavish rooms.
"The power of Steve Jobs" By Brent Schlender, Fortune, November 27th 2007
"Blazing a Paper Trail in China" By David Barboza, The New York Times, January 16, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatella_Versace (accessed: May, 10th, 2008)
The black words are my own words to connect the text
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