On the manufacturing rung he employs 370 cutters and polishers in South Africa and Mauritius, who handle smaller goods, and 19 master craftsmen in Antwerp and New York, who work on the larger diamonds.

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All the branded makers have to do is handle the logistics, badge the goods and send them off to the shops.

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The harbour management team oversees the day-to-day running of the commercial port facilities at St Peter Port and St Sampson's Harbours, which handle more than 97% of all goods imported and exported, as well as the marinas.

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Most of the big online sites on the planet use Akamai to deliver all sorts of digital goods faster than the regular Net can handle: Yahoo, iTunes, Microsoft, MySpace.

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But in an interview with Forbes, Korsmo made it very clear that among the issues regulators are zeroing in on is the way some charities handle the accounting of gift-in-kind goods, as donated materials are called.

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