Mobile-phone companies could become the credit companies of the future by offering customers the ability to pay for goods on the Internet while putting the charge on the customers' phone bills.
Adapting quickly to Vuitton's more subdued style, he tripled the brand's offering by adding fashion to the traditional leather goods.
The adidas Group is one of the global leaders within the sporting goods industry, offering a broad range of products around the core brands: adidas, Reebok, TaylorMade, Rockport and Reebok-CCM Hockey.
For this holiday season the start-up is offering artisanal goods.
This states that when it comes to offering services, the large productivity boosts common in goods-producing sectors are not possible.
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Some years ago, after flying back to New York on Virgin and having spent time shopping at Tesco, I speculated at the great competitive advantage that a company offering consumer goods and banking services might have.
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The pharmaceutical and financial-services industries, says Ms Alexander, which are subject to strict national regulation, can be confident that by offering goods and services for sale online they are staying within the law.
The developers make money through advertising and by offering users a way to pay for virtual goods in their games that could, for example, help them manage a virtual farm or defeat rival mobsters.
Those people who may once have been employed full-time making goods or offering a service may now not be injecting as much value into the economy if they are working part-time or working for themselves.
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Some consumer-behavior experts say it is likely the merchants who find it easiest to adopt checkout fees will be specialists and boutiques offering hard-to-find goods or services.
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