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You don't have to be a gangster to have a brush like this with your friends at the IRS. Late last year the Tax Court ruled against John Hewitt, founder of the Jackson Hewitt Tax Service chain.
Brands Inc. (NYSE:YUM) is an American quick service restaurant chain operating 37, 000 restaurants in 110 countries.
But achieving speed and friendliness of service across the chain has been a particularly elusive goal, at least in part because about 90% of McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. are owned by independent operators.
Demand is booming for services to get businesses up and running on the Web, linking their sites to other systems such as customer service and supply-chain management.
The problem in the army does not lie with the medical service it lies with the chain of command.
Mobile commerce is driving the requirement for mobile remote payments, creating new revenue potential for businesses involved in the value chain including Communications Service Providers, banks and credit card companies, transport operators and merchants and also postal operators who have diversified by offering banking services and mobile services through their vast networks.
So it recruited new customers like the 7-Eleven convenience-store chain and United Parcel Service.
Family Dollar Stores operates a chain of self-service retail discount stores primarily for low- and middle-income consumers.
Counsel for Sgt Nightingale, Simon McKay, said the emails appeared to show the Director of Service Prosecutions consulting the military "chain of command" - the Adjutant General's office - on whether or not to pursue the case against the soldier.
Consider this scenario, for example, that is more likely to happen because of the growing capacity of social technologies: What if a hospital chain, a food service company, and an analytics and social software firm joined forces to co-create a system that enabled hospital patients to chose meals and delivery times from customized menu offerings, based on their medical condition?
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Online music subscription service Rhapsody has bought Napster from retail chain Best Buy.
Buyers, district managers and vice presidents would review all aspects of the business, from the supply chain to marketing and customer service.
In the past, departments such as sales, marketing, customer service, public relations, and supply chain might each have had their own data sets, which they managed separately.
As COO, Cook was previously responsible for all of the company's worldwide sales and operations, including end-to-end management of Apple's supply chain, sales activities, and service and support in all markets and countries.
That differentiation is why a quick service restaurant operator like Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain can be down more than 8% from its Sept. 28 IPO price and the two that priced Wednesday can get huge first-day pops.
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For China to truly transition to a service economy and produce products high up the value chain with real innovation--as the government has made a priority in fields like aircraft, and clean technologies--it must have the business minds that can lead the way there.
The 90-store chain plans to open a new online service this summer that lets consumers create their own podcasts--audio and video shows designed to be downloaded onto a computer or portable media player--using a catalog of some 6, 000 songs, which Tower will provide free of charge.
Wal-Mart's Sam's Club chain of warehouses recently announced a new banking service for its customers.
The North Carolina-based price-point retail chain is looking for store managers, customer service representatives, and human resources coordinators, among others.
This approach has worked wonders for Naked Pizza, an all-natural restaurant chain that began using the social-media service five years ago.
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The safety of our service personnel is one that all in government and the military chain of command take extremely seriously.
Dixons, one of Britain's biggest electrical retailers, has launched a free Internet access service, as have such copycats as Tesco, a supermarket chain.
This level of customization will be accomplished thanks to PENTAX's unique supply chain management process, its team of committed customer service representatives and its progressive retail partners.
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Smaller manufacturers and service companies, such as Daiei, Japan's biggest supermarket chain, took on debt to expand and are now in trouble.
As organizations prepare for this transition, we encourage them to look at the opportunities afforded by the supply chain and by deploying software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in the cloud.
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The bottler, which operates in North America, Turkey, Russia, Greece and Spain, said it would refine its selling and service organization, lower its general and administrative expenses, make its supply chain more efficient and modify its defined benefit pension plans in the U.S. and Canada.
Unilever distributes its products to a variety of chain, wholesale, co-operative and independent grocery accounts, food service distributors and institutions.
As owner of the entire value chain, AXP has created a profitable niche for itself in the financial service markets, offering a great potential for profits.
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They suspect that even if the court finds the pair guilty, implying that the Libyan secret service ordered the attack, no one will seek to trace the order along the chain of command.
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