As at end March 2011, the Big Five provided custody for 16.9 percent of total of brokerage industry individual customer equity holdings.
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Customer lines at other Equity bank branches often snake out the front door.
Since most customers listen to and trust peers more than advertising and collateral, a glowing recommendation is incredibly powerful in sustaining customer loyalty, building equity in your brand, and strengthening your community.
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This means that marketing is no longer viewed as merely a tool for building market share or short-term revenues, but is instead considered a strategic investment in building critical intangible assets, such as customer relationship and brand equity, which produce important long-term profits.
He also placed an emphasis on customer care, incentivizing midlevel managers with equity and pushing decision making as close to the customer as possible.
Stone said the Hoku contribution will come through a combination of cash on hand, existing credit lines, customer payments, and possibly an equity sale.
First, credit life insurance is a type of insurance policy that banks will try to sell and they will try hard to sell thanks to big commissions for these products when a customer takes out a loan or opens a home equity loan.
Most businesses have built up years of equity in their landline numbers-their primary identities in the customer world.
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"Basically, they are purchasing a very strong customer base and a global network, " says Vik Grover, an equity analyst with Needham.
Hedge funds, of course, have become a highly desirable customer segment for Wall Street, accounting for 10% of commodities revenue and 30% of equity trading commissions.
Other Kenyan banks, particularly Kenya Commercial Bank, also are expanding their customer bases by targeting small borrowers in the informal economy, but none have caught up with Equity, which pioneered the idea of signing the unbanked in Kenya and fortified its position with the nation's largest network of storefront banking agents.
Picture People, which is owned by private-equity firm Blackstreet Capital, says it has had positive same-store sales growth and customer traffic in the latest year, and had not seen a slowdown.
Crew places second behind L.L. Bean on the customer loyalty index for retailers, according to Brand Keys, a New York-based firm that measure brand equity.
"When we started with stock footage licensing, the main customer was the student-athlete who just wanted to buy the game and save it, " says Thought Equity Motion CEO Kevin Schaff, whose company has handled digital content for NBC Sports and the Big Ten Conference, among other properties.
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