The government also allows for a touring fund for Scottish arts organisations, for the very expensive business of taking Scottish culture on the road to overseas audiences.
The business of publishing road atlases and maps, previously dominated in North America by players like Rand McNally and AAA, was a data-scarcity-driven business (real-time position and road condition information was too expensive to collect and deliver to the point of use).
This is especially important for the enterprise, where a majority of business processes do not necessarily take place on the road or in the field, and where many processes require more user input than is possible on a tablet or smartphone.
It seems odd to pay a worker compensation because his firm has succumbed to competition from imports, but give him nothing if it has been put out of business by a company up the road, or failed to adapt to changes in technology or in customers' tastes.
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"There's no way that I could have done the hard part of the dues-paying days without Merle's driving and help on the road and taking care of business, " Mr. Watson told Bluegrass Unlimited magazine in 1997.
It will see about 100 homes built, a new business park and link road as well as the relocation of the nearby Gloucestershire College campus.
He also explained why he went on the road to talk about the art and business of beauty.
Google, Microsoft and many of the other companies that business travellers rely on when on the road are charting a similar course.
The chief executive of Santiago, Chile-based Sociedad Qumica y Minera de Chile S.A. spends half his time on the road, drumming up business for this manufacturer of specialty fertilizers and chemicals.
McKenna talks of overcapacity and of the probability that somewhere down the road, the launcher business will have yet another shake-out.
Imagine if you never had to drive you could sit in the backseat and get emails, texts, and early business calls taken care of, as you need not worry about focusing on the road.
But now there's an expanding market of tourists and business travelers wanting to check their e-mail while on the road.
Business leaders and several politicians have been critical of the number of legal delays to the road, saying it is vital for the north east of Scotland's economy.
Costanza Castelnuovo-Tedesco, SAP's vice president of global advertising and branding, says the company turned to mobile marketing as a way of reaching its target audience of C-level execs and "senior business decision makers, " who are early adopters of technology and are frequently on the road.
Is there some whiz-bang, brand new, knock-your-socks-off technology coming down the road that will be affecting how millions of businesses are doing business in the next five years?
Much of India's call-centre industry, which employs roughly 300, 000 agents, is located outside the ring road that encircles Bangalore, in a string of smart new business parks with tidy lawns and private security.
The AARP roadies--senior citizens who roam the country visiting grandchildren--won't be down for another hour, so now it's all hardworking business types sipping coffee at the too-small tables, preparing for another day of work on the road.
Further down the road, said Brass, the group would be moving more of its Shenzhen business to new facilities in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Forum Energy and MRC Global had garnered good investor feedback during their road shows, but Forum was the bigger draw, with a more diversified business of subsea and land-based products and success at new product development.
Kris Clark, proprietor of the George Hotel in Inverary, said the blocked road was again costing money and affecting business, and longer-term improvements were needed.
Rather than lamenting the fall of American dominance or putting up regulatory road blocks to prevent the sale of the NYSE, it would be better for business leaders to spend their time doing something about the root cause of the problem and rethinking how their organizations are being managed.
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Next door to a Safeway supermarket on the Edgware Road in London, a group of British accountants and tax experts has built a business service called GlobalExpense that handles employees' expenses over the internet.
Some of the dissidents seem to have deliberately eschewed the business of talking to go-betweens and forming political front groups, as they regard this as the first step on the road to being seduced away from violence, just like the Provisional and Official IRA before them.
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