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Biotech / Medical : GUMM - Eliminate the Common Cold -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sun who wrote (758)	8/6/1999 9:44:00 PM
From: out_of_the_loop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5582

I thought there were good things in the interview but it was quite light on Zicam and concentrated mostly on gums that have been made by GumTech. In addition, I do not think I heard the word "nicotine". They are very careful not to hype, in contrast to previous GUMM executives. Interesting facts included that Acutrim is the #2 selling diet product in the country. Also, they believe they are several years ahead of any other US companies wanting to develop specialized gum products. There are some European companies that do similar things. Other big companies will not compete unless products have over $50-100 million potential, so they won't compete until GUMM has already established products - an interesting catch-22 that may actually work for, rather than against GUMM. Networks of distribution for Zicam include 16 master brokers with their 200-300 sales people under them. In Israel, they have over $1 million in gum sales (no time period given). In general, I think the interview was typical of the new GUMM executive stance - very conservative.

To: sun who wrote (758)	8/6/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: DanZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5582

Sun, The apostrophe is part of the error message and I don't think it uses it as part of the URL. I clicked on the link in your last post and still get the same error: Cannot open 'http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/interviews/aug/6/gumm.ram'. Please verify that the path and filename are correct and try again. Suggestion: Check the web site or content source for information about playing this content. When I click on the link wallstreetreporter.com, Windows Media Player version 6.01.05.0217 automatically starts. The status bar displays "Opening" and then "Locating Server". That's when I get the error. It's possible that I need Real Player to hear the interview, but the error message suggests a connection problem to the URL. I haven't had this problem with Windows Media Player before. Thanks for your help. Dan