The company helps groups collect payments for a wide variety of causes, including weddings, party buses and local projects.
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Its loan portfolio includes, among other things, investments in high-end kitchenware maker Sur La Table, a crane rental company, restaurant groups and software makers.
Shell Oil Vice President Paul Goodfellow said this is the first time the company and environmental groups have reached agreement to create an entire system for reducing the effects of shale drilling.
The changes were designed to focus the company on creating groups of products that work together to meet the needs of specific end markets, such as the way Intel bundled a laptop processor with wireless networking technologies to create its Centrino brand.
The company worked with privacy groups during the development of these features, he said.
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LB, which is already a joint-stock company, but two groups of Sparkassen would still own most of the bank.
The moves are part of a reorganization of the company into three new groups: Web security, WAN optimization and cloud services.
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Thus, the company needs to get Groups right, or go home.
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Aside from Viva, he runs PT Mahaka Media, a listed media company, which he groups under a larger Mahaka Group umbrella of listed and unlisted companies.
It put John Compton, the current head of Americas Foods, in charge of all the company's global groups, making him an heir apparent in the newly created role of president.
Megaupload, digital rights groups and the company left holding the data have called for it to be released to users.
Despite the costs of rebranding, which include everything from focus groups to new company stationary, some companies feel that their badly wounded reputations leave no other option.
Find ways to show top talent that they are important to the company, such as focus groups, one-on-one meetings with senior leadership, or even mentoring programs to promote development.
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Foxconn said workers who agree to move to a different location are given clear timetables for when they will return to their original factory, but labor-rights groups say the company often gives only vague schedules, and many workers are forced to stay longer than they planned.
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The company also reached out to privacy groups and advisors for advice, these people said.
We have individuals from our company involved in many different trade groups and business consortiums that are developing industry standards and protocols for sustainability.
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The company has trained additional beach cleanup groups in Southern California and on the East Coast to collect and sort the plastic themselves.
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The lower sales number can also, in part, be attributed to the company's shift in product groups to high-end products, away from low-quality printers.
Walls to your house, company, school, and new groups are forming.
Members and privacy groups have criticized the company and its 23-year-old founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, for implementing programs that make personal member data accessible to advertisers.
Tim Williams from the company said it was aware some groups were not getting money that they might really need, and everyone wanted to do something to address this.
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The company has a six-month program to identify leaders early on and accelerate their development in managerial roles by having them work in small groups to solve real company problems.
As the company acquired more and more dealership groups starting in the late 1990s, it retained the existing local brand names for 15 groups, like the Maroone Automotive Group in South Florida.
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For the sake of better brand positioning and better efficiency, Yang announced in the same e-mail that his company will split into two new groups: Lenovo Business Group (LBG) and Think Business Group (TBG).
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Today the largest money managers have access to powerful law firms, public relations specialists, industry lobby groups (the Investment Company Institute, in particular) and such cozy relations with regulators that they can be assured, except in the most blatantly mismanaged cases, that they can conceal any unethical or illegal practices in which they engage.
The company also got venture capital from such groups as BV Capital and TPG Ventures.
Gromek made smart cost-cutting decisions, combining the company's 19 brands into three groups with shared marketing and supply operations.
He says he was a regional vice president at TIAA-CREF, a company that provides retirement plans for nonprofit groups.
Cove, which was a stealth company, was developing collaboration tools for groups.
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