After nearly two decades at Coca-Cola Company, where he rose to be chairman and president of its Japan operations, the last thing on the mind of Mr Masahiko Uotani was a career in cosmetics.
Instead, as chief executive partner of BrandVision Inc, a company he founded upon his retirement from the Coke company to help Japanese firms go global, he was happy enough being an outside marketing adviser to the nation's oldest cosmetics maker.
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