But when was the last time you heard of a single business venture that has the potential to revamp an entire country?
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In 1994 it formed a joint venture with PepsiCo to distribute its single-serve juices in soda machines and grocery stores.
In 1994 it formed a joint venture with PepsiCo to distribute its single-serve juices in vending machines and grocery stores.
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While each partner brings high quality relationships with equipment suppliers, the joint venture will not be bound to any single vendor for new nuclear development, and will be able to make use of the best available technology for each element of the nuclear new-build programme.
The risks are too high for the banks, while the returns are too low for venture capitalists, and the tiny size and illiquidity of single island stockmarkets makes it difficult for them to cash out again.
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They frequently depend on venture-capital funds which are dwarfed by the cost of even a single utility-scale power plant.
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There will be many more bumps ahead: European, Chinese and Korean steelmakers are objecting to the joint venture, which they say will concentrate too much power in the hands of a single firm.
One reason seems to be that these efforts have generally relied on a single silver bullet, such as tax breaks from the government or small-business incubators set up by venture capitalists.
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