X-ray and ultrasound machines, helped by earnings from Mr Zhou's sideline business growing flowers and trees.
The only parts of the business growing fast are computerised games and learning toys, which are often sold by specialist stores.
Mail-Well veered from envelopes, a sleepy business growing 2.5% a year, into the slightly less soporific commercial printing market, growing at 6%.
New business has come from the Bahamas, Argentina, Oman and Indonesia, with underlying revenues in its local division in North America up by 33% in the first quarter, and Australian business growing particularly strongly.
For companies with already high payout ratios, this can be problematic, as a higher percentage of earnings paid to shareholders may crimp capital expenditures or research and development commitments that are needed to keep the business growing.
We have a company that I know you're going to be at tomorrow that is actually manufacturing steel still in the United States, and doing a great job at it, growing their business and growing the workforce.
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In Japan today about the only business still growing is the funeral business.
"It's a real business, a growing business, and it's only going in one direction, " said Dede Nickerson, head of production and strategic development for the China arm of Sony Corp.
Ullal said the security business is growing 25% to 30% annually and is increasingly a mainstream business for Cisco.
Mr. Ellena was literally born into the business, growing up near the French perfume capital, Grasse.
"We're still very much Japan-centric and yet our business is growing, " especially abroad, he says.
Its online advertising business is growing faster than those of its publicly held U.S. rivals.
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They may have fallen but more managers think their business is growing than shrinking.
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Business is growing: Chen says that some games are played as much as 10 million times a month.
We wanted to test and vet the business by growing it organically based on its merits in the marketplace.
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Meanwhile, even as business was growing at home, the other four had disagreements.
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Given the stability of the business at growing its cash flow, he believes the shares are undervalued at current levels.
"The business is growing healthily despite slightly weaker economic fundamentals, " she says.
With 350 outlets in all, this business is growing in double digits.
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The French have been in the business of growing grapes and making wine for a long time, and the Chinese are new at it.
We also believe YouTube is already a multi-billion dollar business, growing fast and with healthy operating margins, whose growth potential is not fully reflected in consensus.
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The country should import more grain in order to raise more livestock, and devote its own land to the more profitable business of growing cash crops for export.
In my experience, this can be tough, especially when a business is growing, but you need to determine what tasks you can delegate and what you have to keep.
And today the FT announces that Deutsche Bank will undertake a major restructuring, reducing risky business while growing safer, if more boring areas such as asset management and transaction banking.
It was that loan that allowed Frank and Donna to rehire some employees who had been laid off during this recession, and today their business is growing and thriving once more.
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As the credit boom reached its peak, the firm's credit-card business was growing by a dizzying 20% or more a year, with younger consumers with scant track records among the targets.
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In short, the payments business is growing very fast.
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Business is growing quickly: whereas in its first month in September 2004 eCourier delivered only 25 items with four couriers, it is now delivering around 15, 000 items a month with 90 couriers.
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