Nikolai Maximov founded steel mini-mill developer Maxi Group and sold his controlling stake to billionaire Vladimir Lisin's NLMK in 2007.
MG, Riley and Wolseley, as well as Land Rover and Mini, the only Rover group brands that by then were really worth anything.
Also, in my mini scientific experiment with a group of small boys, the long, tall boards are not seen by people on the ground.
Season two of Showtime's Sleeper Cell: American Terror starts tonight, as well as HBO's Tsunami, the Aftermath mini-series focusing on a group of fictional characters caught up in last year's disaster.
With a blended learning approach, you can provide them with videos and interactive assignments at their primary locations, and then pull them together either in regional hubs or your main office for one-one-one and group discussions as well as mini-lectures.
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And last summer the group organized seven of its own mini festivals, each including a half dozen like-minded acts on the bill.
An even lower-cost group of domestic producers are the mini-mill operators, such as Nucor, which make steel from scrap metal instead of iron ore.
Every half-hour or so, a black-clad Apple employee would emerge from the massive, monolithic mother ship--kind of like a Steve Jobs Mini-Me--to indoctrinate a group of Apple fans on the intricacies of Apple's Time Machine backup software or other Mac marvels.
On that measure, MINI was the most successful brand in the BMW group, outstripping overall BMW sales that were up by 4% compared with July 2011.
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American steel is really two industries: a group of low-cost, non-unionised mini-mills and an array of unionised, capital- and labour-intensive integrated steel producers.
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Facebook has also garnered support for a new system-on-chip connection standard, rather affectionately named Group Hug, that would let owners swap in new mini systems from any vendor through PCI Express cards.
Like lots of good ideas, the Toscars had small beginnings - Young and a group of friends made a few parodies, held a mini screening and the winners were determined by which film got the loudest cheer.
He was invited to speak about his role in giving birth to Troopergate, the raucous mini-scandal that had erupted barely two months earlier when a group of Arkansas state troopers told stories about soliciting women and facilitating extramarital trysts for Clinton while he was governor.
Travel firm Minoan Group has signed a deal to run a nationwide network of mini-travel agencies across the UK post office network.
The first round of group matches will be played between 9-11 July, with the mini-league phase concluding on the weekend of 15-17 October.
The result is, there is now a vociferous group of shale-gas (and oil) enthusiasts who have created a mini-bubble in shale.
Mini-experiments do not need to be expensive, they just need to involve the target customer group and test assumptions you have about your business model.
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