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1. Omniseek: Personal Finance: Beverages may get their fizz back
personalfinance.omniseek.com/n - [Cached]Published on: 1/24/2000 Last Visited: 9/27/2006
But as we kick off the new century, things look a little brighter, and analyst Roy Burry of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. says that Monday's earnings reports should show some upside. -
2. www.gazettevirginian.com
www.gazettevirginian.com/archi - [Cached]Published on: 9/1/1999 Last Visited: 3/27/2008
Roy Bury, an analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman, said experience with past price hikes indicates this increase of about 8 percent is likely to decrease demand by only about 2 percent. -
3. Reading the Tobacco Leaves...
www.cleanlungs.com/settlement/ - [Cached]Published on: 6/11/1999 Last Visited: 9/22/2007
To maintain their financial strength, cigarette companies have to "minimize negative impact of the necessary price increases, to the extent more are necessary," said Roy D. Burry, a tobacco analyst with Brown Brothers Harriman.
The companies have so far been successful in shifting the settlement's cost to consumers, according to Burry. "We had the big list price increases, but they were phased in over time," he said. He added that Philip Morris Inc., the largest U.S. tobacco company, is still discounting prices on brands and will probably ease out of that strategy by the end of the year.
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Burry sees strength for the industry in a lack of new competition.
While the master settlement agreement between the participating tobacco companies and 46 states forbids many types of advertising and marketing, the industry was already protected from new competitors, he said.
"You haven't got the brand names, the production capacity, and all that stuff," Burry said.

