Blundy, who was often in the U.K. for his music-store business, had been looking for a new venture in fast fashion, and he wanted a vertically integrated business like Bras N Things.
FORBES: Meet Brett Blundy, Flogger of Lingerie, Jewelry, Adventure and Pies
It's ironic that Anschutz is in the rock 'n' roll business at all.
"They didn't understand how much demand they would create with this new product, " says John Spooner, an analyst with Technology Business Research of Hampton, N.
According to the report, issued Wednesday by House Committee on Small Business Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez, D-N.
That sums up the business of Arrow Electronics of Melville, N.
Nokia's N-gage mobile games business also suffered setbacks.
More slimming-down came in 2002, when Johnson spun off his old pet food business (9 Lives, Kibbles 'n Bits), StarKist tuna, infant foods and store-brand soups into a new company and handed it to Del Monte.
Setting up ICICI's leasing business from scratch and helping then executive chairman N.
The company was formed two years ago when a group of people came up with the idea for the business after being spurred on by U.N.
"I know that there is a lot of buying online, but I like crawling through the stacks and holding a book in my hands, " says Jim Nottingham, a business development consultant who lives in Millwood, N.
Kyoto II -- 2008 will see the start of the business end of negotiations over replacing the U.N.
Tigerlabs ended up using the robot, which it named Einstein, to drum up business by taking it for walks around Princeton, N.
Picco then left the U.N. and set up a private consulting business in midtown Manhattan.
With great fondness he recalls one conversation with a colleague, after a long successful day of business golf and dinner at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.
WSJ: When Golf Was Like 'Mad Men' | Golf Journal by John Paul Newport
Aside from convenience stores and some niche sellers, the territory's supermarket business is controlled by two huge chains: Park'n Shop, the stores owned by Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa Group, and Wellcome, which belongs to Asia's biggest grocer, Jardine Matheson-controlled Dairy Farm.
His father, a furrier, lost his business in the Depression and moved the family to Newark, N.
The past three months haven't been easy for small-business owners like Violet Sanabria, whose flower shop in Hoboken, N.
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which were unanimously endorsed by the U. N.
FORBES: Shell, Corporate Social Responsibility and Respect for the Law
Elizabeth diGiacomantonio recently parted ways with the co-founder of her three-year-old business, Walk Up Press, a letterpress and design studio in Brooklyn, N.
WSJ: Splitting With Your Company's Co-Founder Is a Tricky Task
It is a long way from the original dream of click 'n borrow, but then the Internet was never going to change business in predictable ways.
Marc Okon, who has worked as a stockbroker, entrepreneur and business consultant, has a friend from his old neighborhood in Bayside, Queens, N.
But, even setting aside the difficulties of learning how to run a retail business, such a site would face problems of protocol worthy of the U.N.
"In the business community, there is optimism, there is big buoyancy, " said Sartaj Aziz, PML-N's senior vice president who served as finance minister in Mr. Sharif's two previous governments.
"This is the worst time we've ever had in the business, " says Matt Bjornson, third-generation co-owner of Bjornson Oil Company in Cavalier, N.
应用推荐