Looking to stimulate growth, the company created a sales-and-distribution center in China with the goal of distributing global products locally.
Sun and Tu continue to work in cubicles at the center of the sales floor.
Participants ranged from people in the call center to those in sales.
The art was sold, and Hassan turned the suite into a sales training center and installed company executives in modest quarters across the campus.
Mr. Bakriniotis, who two weeks ago shut down a restaurant he ran in the center of Athens because of falling sales and rising taxes, said he doesn't want Greece to leave the euro.
Even though during the autumn of 2008 the center of the crisis was in United States, it was in Europe where handset sales growth turned negative first.
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But when he started Siebel Systems in 1993, he applied an Oracle tactic in reverse: to make the customer, not sales quotas, the center of the world.
At one of Gore's main rivals, Associated Air Center in Dallas, the company keeps track of its sales with little flags stuck into a wall-size world map outside its sales office.
Intel reported staggering 42% growth in data center revenues (including microprocessor and chipset sales) for the second quarter of 2010.
The HP training center for sales people, a 10, 000-square foot building in Plano, Texas, will open next month.
He spends the morning catching up on Renault business and then climbs into his black chauffeur-driven Vel Satis (a sales disappointment for Renault in Europe) for the 30-minute drive to the carmaker's technical center for some product-review sessions.
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