As a rule of thumb, products that speak to basic needs are more recession proof.
This strategy has resulted in a recession proof model that generates consistent customer traffic and repeatable revenues.
The expectation for cosmetics stocks was that they would decouple from retail trade and thrive as a recession proof industry.
If not quite recession proof, weddings are recession resistant.
"I wouldn't say it's recession-proof, but Seattle's going to weather the recession a lot better than most markets, " said Stephanie Hession, a real-estate economist with PPR.
"We're pretty close to recession-proof, " suggest Chris Bradford, a local attorney and blogger in Austin.
Shelby Akins , however, works in sales for a medical device company, a relatively recession-proof industry.
The candidates will tell us how their policies can prevent and recession-proof small businesses.
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Nonetheless, snagging a recession-proof government job--where layoffs are scarce--is a time-honored strategy during a downturn.
In part, this is because of its concentration on selling basic foodstuffs, which are largely recession-proof.
Meanwhile in Kilrea, a family firm has been looking for new ways to make the business recession-proof.
Teaching, as a "recession-proof" job, has traditionally attracted more recruits when the employment market becomes more difficult.
Much of the extra revenue (such as increased pension contributions) will be recession-proof.
At least four airports in the United States proved to be recession-proof: Atlanta, JFK, Denver and San Francisco International Airport.
Mr. RICHARD DEVLIN (President, Midwest Bartenders School): Bartending is a recession-proof industry.
Mr Mandell thinks the modesty of such purchases makes his business recession-proof.
They used to say in Britain that if you want to own a recession-proof business you should buy a pub or become a bookmaker.
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It was a miserable scorecard in what is supposed to be a recession-proof industry that escaped the credit and liquidity problems plaguing other financial institutions.
Exports have held up fairly well, a resilience that owes much to the presence in Ireland of American drug and medical-equipment firms, whose output is largely recession-proof.
The same is true for the Washington, DC, area, where an all-but-recession-proof economy based on the federal government has already managed a return to pre-downturn output levels.
Once among the most recession-proof economies in the country, the Big Apple's dependence on financial bonuses has made it increasingly subject to the market's boom and bust cycles.
Yes, deposits in Chinese banks, and in recession-proof US stocks.
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Self storage owes its growing appeal to a perception among investors that the industry is recession-proof because people need storage in times of personal upheaval, natural disasters or a move.
There's a cult of the superb, small and artisanal, people like winemaker Manfred Krankl, and a drumbeat of demand for the enduring and recession-proof, like the jewelry of Fulco di Verdura.
Vault.com developed a list of recession-proof jobs by examining all the 1.2 million jobs it aggregates through its partner site simplyhired.com and then determining the ones that were available in the greatest number.
With the current recession that started a year ago, spending patterns ought to change--even though health care is viewed as "recession-proof" and is still forecast to have grown north of 6% again in 2008.
Diversity has probably helped: besides its traditional strengths in electronics and software development, Cambridge has a healthy (and relatively recession-proof) medical-technology sector, and has branched out into biotechnology over the past couple of decades.
The world has watched admirably at the "wonder from down under, " a seemingly recession-proof economy that avoided a downturn after the global financial crisis and that has not experienced two successive quarters of negative growth for20 years.
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