Eugene Lochman, who runs a pool business in the Dallas area, says that he has seen spending on pools and water elements triple since 2008.
This Los Angeles provider of pool maintenance and service was founded in 2009 has had 15 acquisitions to date, ranging from a one pool route to a pool business with 15 employees.
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She did business out of a pool house, drove an old clunker car, did the work of an entire team of people, and yet she made her business sound larger than life online.
Since opening its franchise business in 2012 the pool care franchise has made acquisitions in four states and has found acquisition to be a highly efficient and beneficial route to garnering clients in unexplored markets.
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The mounting investor exodus that has been discussed at SAC in recent days means potentially big changes in the economics of the firm's business, as outflows erode the pool of fees charged to outside investors.
Microsoft broadened the talent pool to support its own business and those of its customers.
Jewelry dealers are doing a brisk business in Jolo, and the growing pool of dollars is drawing swarms of money changers from Zamboanga.
Because the audience pool was small, repeat business was crucial.
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My father had used our house as collateral when he took out a loan to buy a business a company that manufactured pool tables and he had just shut the company down.
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Suddenly, just like the federal employees -- there are millions of them so they can drive a harder bargain with insurance companies -- you, as an individual or a small business owner, could be part of this pool, which would give you more negotiating power with the insurance companies for lower rates and a better deal. (Applause.) Right?
If we expect companies to do business and hire in America, America needs a pool of trained, talented workers that can out-compete anybody in the world.
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Sounds bad, especially if you see it through the eyes of Business Insider, which has been running a dead pool of the masthead for the last month.
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The presidential suite comes with its own outdoor pool and a large outside terrace perfect for business gatherings.
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Emerging markets provide significant scope for expansion for the retailer along with a huge pool of value conscious customers and its proven business model.
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Because of this bill, start-ups and small business will now have access to a big, new pool of potential investors -- namely, the American people.
Millions of trades occur in over 50 different and unique dark pools, internalizers and ECNS (all of whom have different (undisclosed) operating and business models) and no one can determine which dark pool did the trade.
With a sleek online storefront where customers can book fitting appointments, the goal, Mr. Ng says, is to give tailors better working conditions and better business by catering to Hong Kong's pool of young and Web-savvy expatriates, in part through its social mission of hiring youth with drug addictions to serve as tailor apprentices.
"But nonetheless, such is the thirst for a managerial talent pool that there remains tremendous demand for the Western business-school product, " Mr. Symonds says.
Yahoo also has access to millions of consumers via email and their popular homepage, along with relationships and information on a vast pool of local merchants through its Yahoo small-business group.
Mind you big box stores are still labour intensive, the only difference is, instead of a lot of people owning and running their own stores one entity owns and runs the place with low-skilled labour from the pool of people who have been run out of business.
Ranjit Khanna, head of the global nonresident Indian business at Coutts, said that according to industry estimates, the wealth pool of NRIs has grown at about 15% in recent years, compared with 10% growth for high-net-worth Asians as a whole.
But Comcast and its peers also face a long-term slowdown in the pay-TV business as increased competition and a soft economy see distributors sharing a smaller overall pool of total viewers.
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Business and industry need to work in tandem with our educational institutions to insure the pool of applicants is appropriately skilled for the jobs that are created.
Really, what Paul was saying was just that a great many of his business colleagues were dead and that this was a very murky, bloody pool that Berezovsky was swimming in.
It is clear that investing in women is an important strategy for job creation and economic growth, but the pool of talented women is still underutilized, underpaid, and underrepresented in business and society.
Nerine was discovered at the bottom of the pool by her sci-fi star husband, when he returned home from a business meeting.
The Healthcare Mandate enforces that all shall buy into the pool, so that poverty is less of a payroll headache for everyone in the business.
Dr. JOSEPH MASON (Associate Professor of Finance, Drexel University's LeBow College of Business): Some of the securities created can be safer than the underlying risk of the pool.
Depending on your agenda, the choices range from the private pool villas, ideal for those who prefer to sunbathe in privacy, to the more business-focused ultra-modern suites in the main building with sleek furnishings and luxe baths, with rain-drenching showers and deep-soaking tubs.
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