This is a service business and it is the quality of service that really counts.
While the manufacturing sector is suffering, the solar construction and retail service business is thriving.
The food-service business is all about service, not just food, and Sodexho knows how to deliver it.
We also believe the change in Service business model will lead to a more aggressive ARPU drop.
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Still revenue from its service business is expected to drop by 11% to 13% for fiscal year 2013.
My attention was piqued and as a service business, I realize I am potentially interested in engaging Pavestone myself.
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Bellon got a tip from an investment banker that Marriott International wanted to spin off its service business to focus on hotels.
When all is said and done, ClubLocal charges the local service business between 10% and 30%, depending on the transaction.
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This is not an isolated incident at this one company it is already happening everywhere in the service business.
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Since he had spent his career in technology, he thought it would be interesting if it was a service business.
Most rooms have balconies and views of the sea, plus there is a full service business centre and boardroom for meetings.
Conventional wisdom posited: Build up your service business and protect the franchise.
But if everyone in the service business stops offering full-time work, the competitive pressure to offer anything but part-time jobs will be gone.
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Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen started a data-center management firm called Loudcloud in 1999, later selling the service business to concentrate on automation software.
Those companies are now down 30% to 40% from their highs, two weeks after Netease reported a 20% decline in its short-messaging-service business.
With a few fairly brilliant algorithms, researchers hope to predict impending heart attacks or strokes, using the data to create a new service business.
Dell's existing service business is at the low end, little more than extended-warranty tune-ups and installing such off-the-rack systems as Microsoft's Outlook Express e-mail software.
The money television brings into professional sports transforms them from a one-off spectacle before paying customers at a specific place and time into a global service business.
It has added thousands of employees to Digital's service business.
Compass, the world's largest catering company, is No. 1 in the food-service business in the U.K., Germany and Spain, and Sodexho has the top spot in France and Scandinavia.
Illumina of San Diego, the leading maker of DNA sequencers, runs a service business that chief executive Jay Flatley has said has been seeing mainly infants and cancer patients.
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Frankly, I have seen management in a service business in China by Chinese companies, and I do not think foreign players, least of all those from Japan, can compete.
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Sure, some particulars may be different, but fundamentally, the right lens (as consultants like to say) is that of a traditional service business, which can be analyzed and optimized accordingly.
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First and foremost, what is required is the ability to manage Chinese officers and staff in a service business (not manufacturing) in the Chinese market in competition with Chinese institutions.
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Any other S corporation which is engaged in a professional service business if 75% or more of the gross income of such business is attributable to service of three or fewer shareholders.
"Under the leadership of Kaz, and Sir Howard Stringer before him, Sony gave me tremendous support to build a global team to coordinate and lead the company's network service business, " said Tim Schaaff.
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Rather than compete with makers of big DNA sequencing machines, PerkinElmer is creating a service business that will allow researchers to get human genetic data without owning their own DNA sequencers or high-powered supercomputers.
Qualcomm currently uses the licenses to support the service business of FLO TV Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and the sale follows Qualcomm's previously announced plan to evaluate strategic options for the FLO TV business.
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The service business may never go back.
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