Any and every process, however owned or managed, where the output is valued more highly than the input makes the society richer.
Owners of small family-owned businesses going through the succession process should make every attempt to include the entire family in the discussion to avoid or reduce familial discord.
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Companies like CyberSource, First Data and PayPal (now owned by eBay) are happy to process credit card transactions for a fee.
The bank, which is now largely owned by the Irish taxpayer, has begun a consultation process with unions on the terms of a severance programme.
Unlike NYSE's Archipelago deal, which was negotiated privately with the aid of only one investment bank, Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), Nasdaq was involved in a bidding process for Instinet, which is 62% owned by Reuters.
Vivendi is a media, telecoms and Internet company still in the process of emerging from its origins as a state-owned water-and-waste utility.
Sterlite, which is 54%-owned by Vedanta, has always insisted that the plant used a smelt process that was internationally accepted.
As part of the acquisition, Kingdom Holding is in the process of trying to sell all of the hotel stakes formerly owned by Kingdom Hotel Investments.
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Establishing a wholly-owned company in China where a company has complete control of the decision-making process and does not have to deal with a Chinese partner can be very tempting.
So a handful of company- and franchise-owned stores now have been built with a slightly larger footprint that opens up the production process to view by customers, gives them a screen to monitor the progress of their specific order, provides them a huge chalkboard where they can comment and, in many cases, includes a large-screen TV to watch while they wait, as well as limited seating.
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The SBA has responsibility under section 15(g) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 644(g)) for overseeing the federal small business procurement goaling process, including the government-wide, cumulative 3 percent goal for participation by small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans in federal contracting and subcontracting.
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