In those example companies Marketing delivered 60-80% of the new business pipeline which resulted in closed business.
In 2009, it shuttered the underperforming EXPO business, closed 15 underperforming Home Depot stores, and canceled plans to open approximately 50 new stores.
Such a move would have "given out a signal to Brazilian business" that the UK was closed for business and would have been a "retrograde" step, he added.
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Labour has said a commitment to hold a referendum at a future date would cause uncertainty, telling international investors that the UK was "closed for business".
Earlier this year, the BBC reported that Jersey-based Play.com was shutting down its online retail business after the government closed the Low Value Consignment Relief (LVCR) loophole.
He told the House of Commons that a delay in the local polls would damage the tourist industry, giving an impression to the outside world that Britain was "closed for business".
It has all the characteristics of being a social business yet operates within closed walls, a contradiction that is working for them right now but might not as other companies offer customers more.
But Mr Miliband said the promise of a referendum in five years' time could jeopardise the UK's business prospects and lead to "five years of businesses seeing a closed-for-business sign hanging around Britain".
The other big message is about the marketing and international branding of Wales and in one line it says there is a perception of Wales being closed for business and that's a damning assessment.
Brown closed his business before moving to New York, giving up the lucrative world of re-selling tickets for the precarious one of freelance writing, but his ticket broker instincts kicked in as he contemplated with despair trying to find an apartment.
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Several business owners reported that they closed up shop early so their employees could attend Wednesday's rally.
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Amid the pressure to get sums right, many funds have closed to new business, as Equitable Life did in 2000.
Whether General Kriangsak could have closed down a business that has become an important part of tourism is anyone's guess.
Inter Ocean Re, a Bermuda reinsurer trafficking mostly in finite deals, announced last month that it was closed for new business.
David Spector, a former venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital, recently bought patents from closed online jeans business INDi for his yet-to-launch e-commerce company.
Marketing can bring it all together because marketing is at the center of driving closed-loop business processes and ROI measurement spanning the entire customer lifecycle.
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LAHC's funds are closed to new business, Swiss Re can make good money from running the policies off, without the trouble of hunting for customers.
Beleaguered insurer Equitable Life, which closed to new business after losing a landmark legal case, may face further challenges from disgruntled policyholders, a senior lawyer has warned.
Most passengers don't take the danger seriously, but I did witness one woman eyeing her neighbor across the aisle, who was finishing up her business after the door had closed.
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Analysts will watch closely to see if the computer-maker met its expectations for the year, which it raised last quarter on a forecast for stronger business spending as the year closed.
As was the case for the Irish portfolios the BNP loans are also primarily in the U.S. The BNP energy business, which will be closed on in the second quarter, is headquartered in Houston.
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In a few short years, Gill, the Yale-educated son of the famed New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, closed the consulting business he started after he was laid off, got divorced and was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Chris Headdon was Equitable's finance director during the crucial years when it ran into difficulties, and he was its chief executive from 8 December, 2000, when Equitable Life closed for new business, until the board was replaced in March 2001.
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The growth and opening up of many countries that were previously closed to international business have substantially increased the size of the international market, from being confine to North America, Western Europe and Japan to embarking most parts of the world.
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They offered us space and facilities, but what we tenants did behind closed doors was our business.
Daniel Wu, who owns a store several miles from Kim's shop in Brooklyn, saw his business spike when a nearby Blockbuster closed.
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