Many of the companies hailed from overseas, as the firm has expanded to focus on startups from abroad.
The big opportunity, according to both Mr Zetsche and Tom LaSorda, Chrysler's boss, lies overseas, where the firm is little more than an asterisk on the sales charts.
During Mr Nardelli's time at Home Depot, the firm expanded rapidly overseas and saw profits rise, although market share at home in the US slipped.
First the good news, says Larry Harding, president of High Street Partners, a consulting firm for companies with overseas operations.
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Information released by the Italian police suggests they are also investigating the role of a group of Spanish companies and an overseas office of an Italian law firm.
Last year Tung's firm, now Orient Overseas (International) Ltd.
In late October Union Bank of Switzerland was lead manager for Nichiei in the largest pure overseas share issue ever by a Japanese firm.
She also invited Felix Brambilla, president of Overseas Travel International in Miami, a firm that acts as the U.S. arm for 2, 000 international travel agencies.
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The firm is India's largest overseas corporate investor, but has been caught up in a five-year tax battle.
On top of this, investors must weigh the likely success of Wal-Mart's expansion overseas where, in the longer term, the firm will have to find the bulk of its growth.
The firm plans to begin marketing the fund to overseas investors in June.
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To qualify for liberation from U.S. paper shufflers a foreign firm must establish that its shares mostly trade overseas.
The longtime technology investor points to startup consumer electronics company, Sling Media, as an example of a firm that has California headquarters but relies on overseas operations for a big chunk of its engineering work.
Countries such as China and India have proven this fear to be a reality, with 158, 000 IT jobs in North America and Europe exported overseas in 2010 alone, according to global strategic advisory firm, The Hackett Group.
Currently, the firm is hoping to release it into less restricted overseas markets by the year's end, but analysts here in America are questioning its ability to pass through all the red tape required for it to hit our shelves.
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Edinburgh online dating firm Cupid has more than doubled sales in its new overseas markets.
He now helps run a 400-employee firm with offices in the U.S. and overseas.
The firm is to be listed in Johannesburg, and possibly overseas, sometime next year.
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In the financial space, banking firm ING is carving out ING US as it unloads overseas operations as stipulated by its 2008 bailout by the Dutch government.
"In the past, Nokia could afford to ignore the U.S. because there was so much growth in markets overseas, " said Daniel Hays, a telecom consultant with the firm PRTM.
According to Mintel, a market research firm, there are about half a million people traveling overseas in some form of volunteering activity from the UK alone and over two million across Europe.
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In 1998, looking to turn itself into a global firm, Razorfish, based in Manhattan, quickly established an overseas presence ( see story )--six foreign offices--by acquiring web development shops in Britain and Sweden.
He added that the firm was also "actively pursuing inquiries" into Savile's overseas assets, which it believed were administered in Guernsey.
He also oversaw some of China's biggest overseas share sales, such as that of phone operator China Unicom and oil firm Sinopec.
The brokerage firm CLSA said that November marked the first month in which weakness in overseas demand was truly felt, compounding what previously had been mainly a domestic slowdown.
Punj Lloyd got its first overseas break as a sub-contractor to PT Trihasra Bimanusa Tunggal, an Indonesian firm with Suharto family ties that had the contract to build a 130-mile pipeline for Pertamina, the state-owned petroleum firm.
But a small New York firm started by two Indian expats, Trikona Capital, was one of the first overseas investors snooping around for deals in India, and it was the first to list an Indian real estate fund publicly.
"You've essentially got two split markets, " where farmers sell to the government but consumers buy from overseas, said Thomas Pugh, a commodities economist at Capital Economics, a London-based research firm.
So can U.S. subsidiaries of overseas companies, if the money they donate was earned in the U.S. The parent firm, however, cannot direct which candidate or party gets a donation.
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