"What we aren't willing to do is let online-only retailers use our brick-and-mortar stores as a showroom for their products and undercut our prices without making investments, as we do, to proudly display your brands, " according to the letter, which was signed by Target Chief Executive Gregg Steinhafel and Kathee Tesija, Target's executive vice president of merchandising.
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But Annwen Jones, chief executive of Target Ovarian Cancer, said many women and GPs were unaware of them.
It's a clear vote of confidence when one company buys another and asks the chief executive of its target to take charge of the merged firm.
Retailer JC Penney hired former Apple and Target executive Ron Johnson with high hopes that he would save the lumbering middle-class department store from its continued slide.
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This reliance on has-been brands could explain why former Target executive Michael Francis left JC Penney after only eight months and was just named chief global brand officer of DreamWorks Animation SKG ( DWA), according to the Wall Street Journal.
In 1989 he was recruited for his first chief executive job, at Target Therapeutics, which then made catheters for minimally invasive liver surgery and later for brain surgery.
Shona Robison (SNP) asked why the executive had not met its 2001 target on waiting times for breast cancer treatment.
Speaking at a scientific meeting last week, CBD executive secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf acknowledged that the 2010 target had been "a mistake", partly because many governments did not have the capacity to turn them into reality.
The cost cut target was set out by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer in a memo sent to each of the company's 57, 000 staff this week.
At Nordstrom, where the family controls 24% of the stock, Chairman and Chief Executive John Whitacre, an outsider, will probably target the most promising successor from a cluster of relatives--five co-presidents, all family members.
An early target was a Republican, Essex County executive James Treffinger, who would be sentenced to 41 months in prison for covering up the awarding of contracts in return for campaign contributions and paying campaign workers with taxpayer funds.
And a relief well being drilled to staunch the flow is on target to be finished by early August, a senior BP executive has said.
The target growth rate for the company of which he's chief executive, Health Management Associates , is two to four hospitals a year.
The CCC's chief executive, David Kennedy, told the BBC that it would be a mistake to target imported emissions in official analysis.
Or that he still has never heard from the Securities and Exchange Commission about whether he is a target of its investigation into this other scandal that resulted in one AIG executive being sentenced to prison.
Bolton NHS Trust chief executive Lesley Doherty said measures have been put in place to strengthen and support meeting the target.
The Housing Executive said it intended to use its land assembly powers to work with private developers to target investment towards urban areas.
"Being able to provide our customers with the best overall efficiency of any retail EV has always been a key target for the Spark EV engineering team, " said Pam Fletcher, GM executive chief engineer for electrified vehicles.
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Google's expansion can also net more data about consumer behavior, which can be used to create more personalized services and target individuals with more relevant advertising, said Narayanan Shivakumar, a former Google engineering executive.
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"The holy grail is a heat-resistant varietal that provides quality coffee, " says Patrick Criteser, chief executive of Coffee Bean International, which supplies the private-label coffees to such retailers as Target and Kroger and is part of World Coffee Research.
Using a similar tactic, Travelers Group Chief Executive Sanford Weill was in Tokyo in June to pen a deal with Nikko Securities and said his next target may be a Japanese insurer.
The Scottish Executive said the site near Elgin will provide 10% of the new renewable energy generation needed to meet its target for 2010.
"We can target and regulate genes inside any cell in any organism, " boasts Edward Lanphier, founder and chief executive of Sangamo.
Boingo Wireless Chief Executive Dave Hagan said last month that his company was developing a Wi-Fi program for Verizon Wireless that would target Android users, for instance.
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