Several businessmen testified that they showered Kilpatrick with trips, custom-made suits and jewelry because they wanted his help in doing business with the city.
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Matt Lauzon of Boston did the latter in order to hire a CEO in 2008 for Gemvara, an online custom jewelry business he started a year earlier.
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She told me her jewelry business is the most important business in her life.
Jewelry dealers are doing a brisk business in Jolo, and the growing pool of dollars is drawing swarms of money changers from Zamboanga.
In addition to her show business career, she is active in managing other businesses as well, including her jewelry line which has been on QVC for about 21 years and has been profitable since its inception.
Today Alukkas manages his Indo-Gulf jewelry business from the coastal city of Cochin in the Indian state of Kerala.
On this basis we expect to continue to grow our own jewelry and timepiece business despite challenging economic conditions in the U.S. and Europe.
And their spending on jewelry increased 27% in 2011, according to American Express Business Insights.
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In a sunlit room at a location in Manhattan that I will not disclose, reporters and editors from some of the most respected consumer and trade publications in the world had their first opportunity Monday to view hundreds of fine jewelry creations by the some of the top designers in the business today.
Business thrived as families came in to shop to purchase the heavy jewelry offered as bridal dowry, a practice common in many parts of India.
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Using business skills honed in the markets of the Gulf, Alukkas has built a jewelry retailer in India.
Originally from Quebec, Angers lived in Vancouver for 15 years where she ran an import and wholesale business, buying, designing and selling jewelry, handicrafts, and furniture.
In its most recent quarter, Avon posted a wider loss as it marked down the value of its Silpada jewelry business and restructured.
The campaign focuses on emerald jewelry, which coincides with Gemfields main business: the mining and marketing of emeralds from the Kagem mine in Zambia, which it has a 75 percent stake in.
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In Las Vegas small business vendors showcased the discounts they planned to offer as part of Small Business Saturday: a jewelry store took 20-percent off its products, a hair salon offered 20-percent off haircuts and threw in a complimentary book, a flower store offered 10-percent off its merchandise.
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