NEW YORK: For one night last week, the Snapple Beverage Company occupied one of Manhattan's most prized pieces of real estate - the lights atop the Empire State Building.

The building's lights shone "Snapple yellow on August 13, the second day of the beverage group's annual sales meeting. New York's Conventions Exhibitions Meetings and Events committee awarded the privilege to Snapple to thank the company for bringing its meeting to the city, still recovering from the economic fallout after September 11. The building's ...