As most small business operator will likely tell you, nothing is better for business than more sales.
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Not so for the small business operator who remains dependent upon a local customer base a customer base that needs money to spend in order to support these small businesses.
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The problem is that Senator Ayotte whose entire speech was crafted around the small business experience she shared with her husband failed to point out is that these more expensive regulations tend to apply to big industry not the small business operator.
The success of Virgin Mobile in the U.K. and Amp'd Mobile in the U.S. prove the so-called mobile virtual network operator business model.
After the deal closes, Glueck will assume the role of EVP of the Operator Business for Opera, as well as CEO of Skyfire, and will oversee the joint offerings for Opera across Opera Mini co-brand solutions for Operators and Skyfire's product lines.
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The company, which currently manages 226 aircraft, is the world's largest operator of private business jets.
Or, as an old Waste Management wag once complained to me: The most efficient operator in the business is a one-truck hauler where the owner drives the truck.
Micato Safaris is unquestionably the best large tour operator in the business, and one of the few that uses all of its own full-time, highly trained guides rather than subcontractors.
Micato Safaris is unquestionably the best large tour operator in the business, and one of the few that uses all of its own full-time, highly trained guides and drivers rather than hiring subcontractors.
His great strength is that he can speak from a position of authority, being that rare creature who has found success both as an intelligence agent and as the operator of an enduring business.
But part of the drag on margins was due to InPhonic's struggling Liberty Wireless business, a mobile virtual-network operator that InPhonic has now sold.
It was founded by the late Mr. Chng Kee, a former soya salesman, who ran the business with his wife, a soya production operator.
Private equity's biggest foray into the wireless telecommunications business sees it picking up a healthy American operator that could do with a little financial help in competing against heftier rivals.
"He's a very intelligent, exceptionally well-organized political operator who always has a number of business interests and he does them simultaneously ... many of the companies had contracts with federal government, contracts they are dependant on, " said Charles Lewis, founder of the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity.
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We also signed new operator partnerships and continued to build our data analytics business.
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Ameriprise, which was spun out of American Express in 2005 is a wealth management and mutual fund operator, but it has a significant home and life insurance business as well as an annuities business.
Since the financial crisis, several business schools have introduced ethics courses addressing the moral shortcomings of convicted Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff or added lessons on the social implications of the mortgage meltdown.
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While some people might not immediately associate blue-collar occupations with higher-level formal education, some of these managers and supervisors must have extensive knowledge of business or sciences to perform the tasks of, for example, power plant operator or agricultural manager.
Charlotte Wright, HIE's director of business and sector development, said the centre presented a great opportunity for the right operator.
Ashland, in the process of refocusing its business on mining, made a deal to sell its interest to a small French operator.
As the largest global mobile phone operator by revenue, Vodafone, whose earnings are driven by its European business, is particularly vulnerable to market share loss in Europe.
American Express says it is uniquely positioned to offer the service thanks to its "closed-loop" business model in which it acts as card issuer, merchant acquirer and payment processing operator.
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Humbled by his brief sojourn as a coal miner, he turned over his equipment to an experienced operator and retreated to the more predictable--and insulated--business of collecting a royalty on every tonne that came out of his ground.
Humbled by his brief sojourn as a coal miner, he turned over his equipment to an experienced operator and retreated to the more predictable--and insulated--business of collecting a royalty on every ton that came out of his ground.
So a good operator has to be bold in changing circumstances that could damage or kill the business.
"In addition, the company anticipates other costs to the business that are not possible to determine at this time, " the cruise-ship operator said in a statement.
Although the firm runs a successful telecoms business, Infostrada, as well as Omnitel, Italy's second cell-phone operator, Roberto Colaninno, the chief executive, and his team cannot claim credit for this.
At TNT, a Dutch postal operator, shareholders won a battle to get the firm to separate its express business from its mail division, but the company added unpopular anti-takeover mechanisms to the express part.
Separate from the appliances business, the joint venture--the Haier-Ruba Economic Zone--will be the operator of the park.
Becoming a multibrand restaurant operator, like Tricon Global (FORBES, Oct. 11) is an entirely unproven business model for McDonald's.
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