It has been chosen as a European city of culture in 2013, and is building two new museums and a business quarter in the renovated docks.
At the same time, generic drug manufacturer Ranbaxy posted record revenue for the last business quarter, growth fueled largely by sales of generic atorvastatin in the United States.
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Most of them were mid-level employees who had to report to beleaguered managers whose focus was not a change in business strategy but rather in making it through each business quarter unscathed by failure to meet expectations.
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The update did not give any information on the wider group's performance or results for the UK business, but Barclays said it would provide a full third-quarter business update as originally scheduled at the end of the month.
Unterberg, Towbin, who closely follows the wireless business in China, says that pressure will likely continue on shares of HRAY through the first quarter but that business will begin to recover in the second quarter.
The television business drove the quarter's performance as revenue there grew 5 percent, offsetting declines elsewhere.
He says they are in almost every sector of government, with vast majority of business new every quarter.
However, related after-shocks affecting fourth-quarter business could have serious repercussions.
United Tech was active in its aerospace business during the quarter, agreeing to acquire aircraft part maker Goodrich and cutting an expanded deal with Rolls Royce on next-generation engines for mid-sized jets.
This is unlike the case witnessed in all its competitors like Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley who posted considerable growth in their debt trading business for the quarter which saw a marked improvement in the debt markets from growing optimism on recovery plans for the Eurozone and the prospect of a sustained US economic recovery.
In the June quarter, our automotive business was down significantly from the March 2011 quarter due to lower automotive production activities including supply issues from other manufacturers associated with the earthquake in Japan.
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According to Hou, the Web portal Sina, for example, saw its quarter-over-quarter wireless business drop by 15.5%.
We expect the company to make significant progress in ramping up mobile ad business in the fourth quarter.
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And in Q3, our mobile phones business delivered a solid quarter with sequential sales growth and improved contribution margin.
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Researchers at Gartner predict that by 2014 around a quarter of business apps will be created by workers who are not part of IT departments.
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While the domestic portion of IBM's revenues grew just 2% in the last quarter, business in India, China, Korea and other parts of Asia grew 20%.
According to Hou, the Web portal Sina (nasdaq: SINA - news - people ), for example, saw its quarter-over-quarter wireless business drop by 15.5%.
Such civil business accounts for a quarter of its sales.
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Output growth slowed to a halt in the second quarter, business surveys point to further weakening during the second half of this year, and the labour market has softened.
So my family watched from afar as the business they spent a quarter of a century building grew to the second largest book retailer in the nation, then fall apart.
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He, like everyone else, started at the bottom of the family business, made the same as everyone else and received the same raises and bonuses, those depending on the business of the previous quarter.
Toyota Motor Corp. enjoys the most-faithful buyers in the auto industry, with some surprising vehicles garnering the largest percentage of repeat business in the second quarter of 2012, according to a just issued report compiled by Experian Automotive in Schaumburg, Ill.
In the retail business, less than one quarter (23%) of CEOs hold M.
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Proper QA has seen a shift towards mobile during 2012 and it now accounts for a quarter of their business.
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After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans built a free wireless Internet network for the central business district and the French Quarter.
Starting from the first quarter, the business segment financial disclosure will reflect the organizational changes, which took place in December, 2011.
Some of the business model changes are already paying off with the servers and networking business doing well in this quarter.
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But it said that traffic was down 28% on last year's third quarter, although business travellers were returning faster than leisure flyers.
Now its awareness has more than doubled among its business audience - and a quarter of all adults have heard of it.
On Friday, the German business-software company confirmed its full-year forecast, but business development in the first quarter fell short of analysts' expectations.
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