With the new entity accounting for 25% of English-language book sales, the merger is sure to get a long, hard look from anti-trust regulators.
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In the past couple of years, Italian companies have become much more likely to produce quarterly earnings reports, set up investor-relations departments, put genuinely independent directors on their boards, release information in English, and make sales pitches abroad.
Robert Boutflower, the firm's private sales director, said English wine has lacked body in the past because of the cooler climate.
"The challenge has to do more with genetics, and the right balance for this fast growing bird, " says Martin Humphries, Feed Sales Director for an English specialist poultry feed supplier.
An ethnically Chinese sales manager, who spoke English with a distinct French accent, greeted me.
Most of the thematic areas support the development of the tourist industry and some are related to food, languages (English, Spanish and French), sales and customer services, receptionist duties, leisure and entertainment, tourist guide activities, environmental education, community development and computer programmes, among others.
Some sort of proportionality test seems likely, whereby English courts can assert jurisdiction only if a significant share of sales (10% is one figure being bandied about) are in England.
Since these marketers don't operate in English-speaking markets, their product names have had a minimal impact on sales.
The company, a division of Informa, the publicly traded Swiss publishing and events company, trains sales teams in a method developed 30 years ago by Neil Rackham, an English behavioral psychologist.
The February spike in U.S. auto sales was the topic that Thomas Rippe and Xu Qinduo at Beyond Beijing, the English-language arm of China Radio International, wanted to discuss with Tim Dunne , Director of Global Automotive Operations at J.
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