They are like branches of a head office that dictates most spending and provides or regulates most revenue.
The company, which closed a head office, also restructured its European operation.
Sure, of course, Apple building a new head office will indeed boost the US commercial property market.
Mr Cassidy cites the case of Nike, the sports-shoe giant, which recently eliminated Colorado from its list of possible sites for a new corporate head office after local people protested over the ploughing up of a scenic hilltop.
For example, how to improve the profitability of a minerals company, reorganise the head office of a major multinational, or improve the marketing effectiveness of a retailer of consumer goods.
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Overseeing this operation is a Des Moines head office employing 11, 700 people, up 129% since 2000.
Denmark's free-market government named Bjorn Lomborg , reviled by greens worldwide for not believing that global eco-disaster is round the corner, to head a new office of environmental assessment.
At all banks there is a struggle between head office, which wants to centralise processes, and local staff who are in thrall to the demands of local officials and industrialists and who disobey their branch managers on whom they depend for their promotions at their peril.
Meanwhile, song use was tracked by banks of secretaries filing index cards. (Secretary was about as high a job in the industry as a woman could hope for at the time.) Then in 1958, as record labels and studios began to line up along Music Row, BMI hired Preston to head a new office based in Nashville.
She was head of a government office responsible for overseeing Xiamen's trade when the smuggling ring was active.
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The month at Yamaichi typically began with a sales list from head office, says Toshiyuki Suzuki, now Merrill's Nagano branch manager.
The selection process is currently frozen because of a hoo-hah about the selection process for a new Commission office head in Athens.
As Bob Reischauer, a former head of the Congressional Budget Office, puts it, both sides are indulging in a game of chicken.
He has appointed a liberal outsider to run the CIA and a noted academic to head his office of legal counsel.
Strategic planning and loan approvals for all but the smallest deals must come from head office, a practice the big banks are only just beginning to rethink.
Mr Clark's probable replacement as head of a revamped Cabinet Office was thought to be Peter Mandelson, the prime minister's fixer, who has been notably unenthusiastic about the freedom of information bill.
The jury was told that no significant injuries were found on the back of his head, leading a home office pathologist to believe the fatal blow may have been struck as he lay on the ground.
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Up to 40 separate studies of defence expenditure are close to completion, which will be submitted to the NSC's small secretariat, led by the new national security adviser, Sir Peter Ricketts, a former head of the Foreign Office.
"We have asked the council for the draft budget and all relevant financial documents because we want to do a forensic examination at our head office of their finances to see where other savings could be made to avoid this, " he said.
Following this review, a number of redundancies at the head office and distribution centres have been made.
The Huntington office will get a head start on the next month's target.
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It is bankrolled by some of the main labour unions, and its head office is in a union building.
Union activists staged a demonstration on Saturday outside the head office of Railtrack, calling for the railways to be re-nationalised.
The difference is that Mr Kohl holds power but the president, as head of state, a ceremonial office, in theory holds none.
It took over a year to find a candidate to head up the new Office of Financial Research, created by the Dodd-Frank bill.
But exercising such power can be dangerous to the exerciser - Kumazaki was "promoted" to head a rural prosecutor's office following his successes in Tokyo.
That is despite praise across party lines for the excellent Doug Holtz-Eakin, Mr McCain's most prominent economic adviser and a former head of the Congressional Budget Office.
Sir John is a former head of the UK Meteorological Office, former chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and co-chaired one of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working groups.
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Such was the heady feeling of success that HMV would get together all of their store managers and head office staff for a three day "conference" every year, which was two and half days of fun and partying and a half day of presentations by the board.
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