The Press Wire

World’s Most Popular Online Music Store Kicks off with All Major Labels & Hundreds of Indies

MEXICO CITY—August 4, 2009—Apple® today announced the launch of the iTunes® Store in Mexico (www.itunes.com/mexico) with an incredible selection of Mexican and international music from all the major labels and hundreds of independent labels. Launching with a catalog of millions of songs, the iTunes Store in Mexico features Mexican artists including Paulina Rubio, Vicente Fernández and Zoé and a wide range of international artists including Shakira, Lady Gaga, Green Day and thousands more. With most songs priced at 12 pesos and most albums at 120 pesos, the iTunes Store in Mexico is the best way for Mac® and PC users to legally discover, purchase and download music online.

“The iTunes Store in Mexico is off to a great start with music from all of the majors and hundreds of indie labels,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “And the revolutionary App Store in Mexico gets bigger and better with great new apps using amazing new features, and we can’t wait to see what developers come up with next.”

The iTunes Store in Mexico joins the revolutionary App Store, which has more than 65,000 applications available to consumers in 77 countries, reaching tens of millions of iPhone™ and iPod touch® users around the world. Customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion apps and the recently released iPhone OS 3.0 software update includes over 100 new features like Cut, Copy and Paste; Spotlight® search; landscape keyboard and view; and expanded parental controls. Apps from the App Store work with both iPod touch and iPhone, including the new iPhone 3GS, the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet.

The iTunes Store offers music from all of the major labels and hundreds of independent labels including Warner Music, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music and Universal Music Group. All music on iTunes is available in iTunes Plus, Apple’s DRM-free format with high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings. iTunes customers can also choose to download their favorite songs from the world’s largest online music catalog directly onto their iPhone over their 3G network for the same price as downloading to their computer. A great selection of music videos is also available for purchase and download, with most priced at 24 pesos.

Apple has made it easy for music fans in Mexico to purchase and enjoy music with iTunes Gift Cards, which can be purchased at national retailers including Liverpool, Mixup, Office Depot, El Palacio de Hierro, Sanborns and also at iShop, iStore and MacStore locations. iTunes Gift Cards are available in denominations of 200, 300 and 600 pesos.

Available starting today, exclusively on iTunes, fans can Countdown to the release of highly-anticipated new albums from Nelly Furtado, Sean Kingston and Jesse & Joy by purchasing and downloading advance songs from the albums as they are released on iTunes. Fans can then buy the albums on their release date at a reduced price based on songs they’ve already purchased with Complete My Album. Also, exclusive iTunes Live Sessions are available from Mexican artists including Plastilina Mosh and Motel, and also from a wide selection of international artists. And the iTunes Podcast Directory features over 150,000 free podcasts, including featured Mexican podcasts from Televisa, MVS Televisión, El Universal and Grupo Reforma.

With Apple’s legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as the ability to turn previously purchased tracks into complete albums at a reduced price, and seamless integration with iPod® and iPhone, the iTunes Store is the best way for Mac and PC users to legally discover, purchase and download music and video online.

Pricing & Availability
iTunes 8.2 for Mac and Windows includes the iTunes Store and is available as a free download from (www.itunes.com/mexico). iTunes purchases require a valid credit card with a billing address in Mexico or an official iTunes Gift Card.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

Press Contacts:
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Apple
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Christine Monaghan
Apple
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August 26, 2009, 04:30 PM

by The alli Team

GSK stands firmly behind the safety and efficacy of alli. Our primary priority is patient health, and we want people to know that there is no evidence that alli causes liver damage.

The FDA is reviewing data from suspected cases on liver injury associated with the use of orlistat/alli. Any routine assessment from a regulatory body does not mean that a risk or causal relationship exists.

alli is a ‘non-systemically’ acting medicine – it is minimally absorbed in the blood and works locally in the gastro-intestinal tract. There is therefore no obvious biological mechanism to suggest liver damage can occur with alli.

Liver changes can have many causes. People who are overweight and obese are predisposed to liver-related disorders.

The safety of consumers is of utmost importance to GSK. We continually monitor and evaluate reports of adverse effects associated with use of all of our products, including alli.

GSK regularly communicates with independent regulatory bodies and provides them with comprehensive safety data on our products. Orlistat, the active ingredient in alli, is the most-studied weight loss medicine, with safety established through 100 clinical studies involving more than 30 thousand patients.

Conservative Activist Fred Tausch Continues Grassroots Effort
to Stop Wasteful Spending in Washington

CONCORD, NH – STEWARD of Prosperity founder Fred Tausch announced today that his fiscal discipline advocacy group has launched a new radio ad – “Join the Fight.”

Tausch, a conservative and a successful small businessman from Nashua, is looking to build on growing momentum in New Hampshire for his call to stop runaway spending in Washington and hold politicians accountable to the taxpayers. With 5,000 Granite State citizens having responded to his call for fiscal responsibility in the Nation’s Capital, Tausch is continuing efforts to bolster STEWARD – which stands for “Save The Economy Without Accumulating Record Debt.”

Script for “Join the Fight” radio ad (60 seconds):

Announcer: The Washington politicians are out of control.

Trillions in new spending. Massive government bailouts. Record debt. While taxpayers get stuck with the bill. Had enough?

Fred Tausch has. Fred Tausch is a fiscal conservative and a successful, small businessman.

Like you, he’s tired of the politicians in Washington wasting taxpayers’ money. That’s why Fred Tausch started STEWARD of Prosperity, a grassroots organization committed to restoring fiscal discipline in Washington.

Already 5,000 New Hampshire taxpayers have joined Fred Tausch’s group.

What does Fred Tausch and STEWARD support?

More accountability and transparency in government. Stop the bailouts. No more special giveaways. It’s time taxpayers came first.

If you agree with Fred Tausch and thousands of hardworking New Hampshire taxpayers. Join the fight. Add your name. Learn more about Fred Tausch’s conservative group at stewardofpropserity.org.

Paid for by Fred Tausch, Nashua, New Hampshire.

About Fred Tausch and STEWARD: Nashua resident Fred Tausch, a fiscal conservative and concerned taxpayer, is the founder of STEWARD of Prosperity – a grassroots organization dedicated to holding politicians from both parties accountable to the taxpayers. Tausch originally formed STEWARD in 2009 to raise awareness of the problems with President Obama’s stimulus package. Now that the stimulus is law, Tausch and STEWARD continue to encourage members and the citizenry at large to engage their elected officials through grassroots and online activism.

Through the group’s Web site – stewardofprosperity.org – Fred Tausch and STEWARD provide a public information resource center for working families, policy makers and the media. STEWARD seeks to hold the politicians and all government spending programs accountable to three benchmarks: absolute transparency; prudent disbursement of taxpayer money, with no waste and no pork; and gearing government spending decisions toward promoting economic growth.

Hamilton, Bermuda, July 22, 2009 — Bacardi Limited, the largest privately held spirits company in the world, today announced the Supreme Court of Spain has decided to hear its appeal in the case involving trademark rights to the Havana Club rum brand. The decision by the Spanish Supreme Court is a critically important and successful step in the case, as the Court is highly selective in what cases it reviews.

Bacardi, Jose Arechabala, S.A. and members of the Arechabala family sued Havana Club Holding, Havana Rum and Liquors, S.A., Cubaexport, and the Republic of Cuba in 1999 in Madrid’s Court of 1st Instance No. 54 to invalidate the Cuban entities’ transfer of the registration of the Havana Club trademark in Spain from Jose Arechabala, S.A.

Bacardi owns the rights to the Havana Club rum brand, having purchased the trademark from the original legal owners, creators and proprietors of the brand. The Arechabala family created Havana Club rum in 1935 in Cuba and subsequently sold their rum in Spain and other countries. In 1959, the Arechabala’s Havana Club brand and other assets were confiscated by the Cuban government without compensation. In the early 1990s, Cuba signed an agreement with French-based Pernod Ricard to exploit the confiscated brand globally through a joint-venture called Havana Club Holding.

Bacardi looks forward to full review by the Spanish Supreme Court.

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About Bacardi Limited
Bacardi Limited is the largest privately held spirits company in the world and produces and markets a variety of internationally recognized spirits. The Bacardi Limited brand portfolio consists of more than 200 brands and labels, including: BACARDI rum, the world’s number-one selling rum; GREY GOOSE vodka, the world leader in super premium vodka; DEWAR’S Scotch whisky, the number-one selling blended Scotch whisky in the United States; BOMBAY SAPPHIRE gin, the fastest-growing premium gin in the world; CAZADORES blue agave tequila, the top selling premium tequila worldwide; MARTINI & ROSSI vermouth, the world leader in vermouth; and other leading brands. For additional information, please visit www.bacardilimited.com.

ATLANTA, July 23, 2008 – The Board of Directors of The Coca-Cola Company elected Joseph Tripodi as executive vice president, Harry Anderson as senior vice president, Kathy Waller as controller and appointed Connie McDaniel as chief of Internal Audit.

Mr. Tripodi serves as the Company’s chief marketing and commercial officer. Prior to joining the Company in 2007, Mr. Tripodi was the senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Allstate Insurance Co. Previously, Mr. Tripodi was chief marketing officer for The Bank of New York. He served as chief marketing officer for Seagram Spirits & Wine Group from 1999 to 2002. From 1989 to 1998, he was the executive vice president for global marketing, products and services for MasterCard International. Mr. Tripodi has an undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard University and a master’s degree from The London School of Economics.

Mr. Anderson was named head of Global Business and Technology Services in June. Prior to this role, he served as controller for the Company. Mr. Anderson joined the Company in 2001, and in 2003, he was named vice president and director of Supply Chain and Manufacturing Management. He served as chief financial officer of Coca-Cola North America from 2004-2007. Before joining the Company, he served in roles of increasing responsibility at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., where he was executive vice president of Finance and Operations for Turner Entertainment Group. Prior to his roles at Turner Broadcasting, Mr. Anderson worked in Audit and Accounting Services at Price Waterhouse. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Alabama.

Before this role, Ms. Waller served as chief of internal audit. She is a Certified Public Accountant who joined the Company in 1987 as a senior accountant in the Accounting Research Department. Three years later, she became principal accountant for the Northeast Europe/Africa Group and, in 1991, she became marketing controller for the McDonald’s Group. Ms. Waller was then named financial services manager for the Africa Group and The Minute Maid Company in 1996. She served as the director of Financial Reporting from 1998 to 2004. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Waller worked for the firm now known as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Rochester in New York.

Ms. McDaniel, most recently head of Global Finance Transformation, has played an instrumental role in leading the finance transformation at the Company over the last two years. Previously, Ms. McDaniel served as controller, a role held from 1999 to 2007. Prior to that, she served in other critical leadership roles including division finance manager of Germany, division finance manager of the Southeast and West Asia Division, and director of Financial Reporting. Before joining the Company, Ms. McDaniel spent nine years at Ernst & Young. She has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Georgia State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Both Ms. Waller and Ms. McDaniel are vice presidents of the Company. Their new roles become effective August 1.

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world’s largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with nearly 500 sparkling and still brands. Along with Coca-Cola®, recognized as the world’s most valuable brand, the Company’s portfolio includes 12 other billion dollar brands, including Diet Coke®, Fanta®, Sprite®, Coca-Cola Zero®, vitaminwater, POWERADE®, Minute Maid® and Georgia® Coffee. Globally, we are the No. 1 provider of sparkling beverages, juices and juice drinks and ready-to-drink teas and coffees. Through the world’s largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy the Company’s beverages at a rate of nearly 1.6 billion servings a day. With an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities, our Company is focused on initiatives that protect the environment, conserve resources and enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate. For more information about our Company, please visit our Web site at www.thecoca-colacompany.com.