Not enough, admittedly, to feed through into either private business investment (flat) or retail-sales growth (falling).
Like other foreign firms it cannot set up wholesale or retail distributors to sell its full range.
Some say that fashion, luxury or retail brands have it easier when it comes to building a global brand.
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Unlike in manufacturing or retail, many of the assets you have are uniquely fluid and highly portable, highly poachable.
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Like famous Hamptons faces before them publicist Lizzie Grubman or retail entrepreneur Jeff Goldstein they have become recognizable to many locals and business owners.
But rarely have hackers breached a bank itself rather than the partners or retail outlets that often store large caches of those card numbers.
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Even companies slated under traditional industries on our list, like finance or retail, are finding their niches by applying technology to long stagnant business models.
There often is debate about whether, if we went the national consumption tax route, a value-added tax (VAT) or retail sales tax (RST) would be better.
Women, because of their lesser use of Web banking and sales, suffer from more old-fashioned fraud caused by stolen credit cards or retail employees, he says.
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We are hiring into our operations organization, where they are managing teams in our fulfillment centers, our consumer business, or retail, where they're learning vendor and inventory management.
With the purchase of any ticket, fans received a voucher that could be used on any food, beverage or retail purchase over the course of the two games.
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"We have long wanted to have a presence in York, but have not been able to find a site or retail-led scheme which we felt was viable and deliverable within our time scales, " he said.
In a consumer or retail business, people like personality, they want to engage with personality and so when that faceless corporate that is very conservative, very risk-averse, never makes any noise, finally does something wrong my view is that people are a lot harder on it.
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Note that stock based compensation and corporate expense are not allocated to the geographies or retail so that the numbers do not add up (as you can see by the companies total operating margin declining 620 basis points in the fiscal third quarter but all of the geos are less than that).
For years, we've seen jobs suburbanize in regions across the country, so move away from city centers and further out into metro regions and jobs that pay lower wages, like construction or retail, are among the most suburbanized, and so is manufacturing, which is an industry that's been hit really hard over the last decade.
The predicts a number of national or regional retail chains could fail in the next 12 months.
The bank has written off more than twice as much as RBS UK Corporate or UK Retail divisions.
You can find almost EVERY game on their list cheaper at Gamestop, craigslist or even a retail store like Walmart or Target.
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It defines a large shopping centre as a town or city containing over 400 shops, in particular comparison, convenience or service retail uses.
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Dell says that in 18 months from now he intends to have two or three retail partners in each of the 20 countries with the highest GDP.
"We are in discussions with five or six retail operators and half a dozen leisure operators at the moment about the remaining space, " he added.
Why would a Merrill Lynch or other retail brokerage facilitate something that would surely alienate management causing them perhaps to lose access for their research department?
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Despite hopes bandied about by businessmen, there never was much prospect of this leftist government bringing economic reform to India's statist financial sector or protected retail industry.
When the first copies of Enjoy Detroit came off the press, Katsiris himself flogged them at 30 or so retail stores in Manhattan that specialize in vinyl.
You don't really have to be a bookstore owner or a retail owner of a local store to see that that's - it just seems a little weird.
Mr Hopkinson put the "significant rise" of demolished properties down to the government's abolition of empty property rates relief last April and the state of the market in locations where there is little or no retail demand.
The response from Mr Singh should be a push to explain to Congress and the country how reforms to land ownership or government efficiency or the retail sector would help to improve the mood and hence India's economic fortunes.
Three areas where Goepfert finds useful readings of dumb money (or small retail investor) sentiment are in purchases of odd lots (less than 100 shares) of stock, flows into bearish and bullish Rydex funds and in what he calls the R.
There has been a vast amount of talk - for as long as I can remember - about creating a financial instrument (so-called mutual paper) that would serve as a proxy for equity capital for building societies and that could be sold to investment institutions or even retail investors.
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