advantage as a host of local companies rushed to fill the gap in the market, especially outside France. Perrier struggled to regain its market dominance. Even before the benzene scare, its biggest still

During 2013, the gap between Carrefour and arch-rival Leclerc narrowed dramatically, and the smaller group came close to seizing first place. By year-end however, Carrefour had recovered at least some

American-born Maureen Chiquet, recruited from Gap Inc's Banana Republic in 2003, was appointed as global CEO in 2007. In a surprise development, she was ousted as CEO in Jan 2016, apparently as a result

and finally topped Gap in 2009. Inditex was already bigger than Gap by store numbers. By early 2018, the group's portfolio housed 7,475 outlets worldwide. Zara is by far the most widespread brand, accounting

As a result, the group rapidly closed the gap with arch-rival Coles in the first half of the decade, finally overtaking its traditional competitor at the end of 2006. It has maintained its lead ever since,

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forcing the company to find new golden drugs to fill the gap. Early in 1998, the group announced that it was in merger talks with American Home Products (now Wyeth), a development superseded only a

MTV, Hummer and Gap in just its first nine months. It produced excellent work through the following two years. However 2002 proved a little more problematical. The departure of the Gap account was related

To fill the gap in its knowledge, it agreed an alliance in 1962 with New York agency Sullivan Stauffer Colwell & Bayles (SSC&B). Founded in 1946 by Raymond Sullivan, Donald Stauffer, Robert Colwell, and