The company acquired the retail chains Smart Group Holdings, Cashbuild, Checkers and Stuttafords and in the same year, Wiese led the company to open its first retail outlet in Scotland.
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Collective intelligence is a measure of how smart the group is, as a whole.
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Joan Weiner, a faculty advisor to the Smart House group since 2007 and a Philadelphian for more than 20 years, believes that projects like these have the potential to help the public accept new sustainable technologies.
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Cody Ray, President of the Drexel Smart House Group, who is currently completing his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, detailed the many projects that he and other students across disciplines have played a role in developing and executing.
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It began as a conversation between Mitchell and architect Frank Gehry who acted as guest critic to the car's development by the Smart Cities research group at MIT.
The smart phone market is expected to take off much faster in Europe than in the U.S., according to Alison McKenzie, research manager in charge of IDC's smart handheld devices group in London.
But a group of smart people was able to sit down, talk candidly, recognize where they disagree.
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Just around the corner is a group of smart young women, sitting at a trestle table in the middle of the street, next to their tents.
"We're very excited to be working with Verizon to bring even more compelling offerings to LG Smart TV, " said Sam Chang, general manager of LG's Smart TV Innovation Development Group.
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Whether the rest of Silicon Valley or the world knows it, AOL is quietly becoming a group of smart, focused individuals who care deeply about design and making products that matter.
Yankee Group says smart phone sales will grow from 11% of the market in 2006 to 20% in 2010, while IDC says the number of units sold in the U.S. during that time will increase by nearly 700% to 54 million units.
Leeds is impressed by Quora, but sees a lot of questions there go unanswered, which is likely a function of Quora being a narrow community so far: a group of smart, tech-industry types hovering around Silicon Valley topics like the startup racket and programming.
There is a huge group of very smart and articulate people reading forbes.com blogs.
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How useful is it to have a group of really smart people brainstorm for a day?
It was a regular reminder that we had recruited a smart, talented and committed group of fellows.
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Tunney views the approach as a smart way to attract a diverse group of supporters.
Boosting the group of late: smart phone growth, an extension on dividend tax rates and a compromise on net neutraility.
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The rapid growth has not only brought together a large group of talented and smart engineers, it has brought together innovators from diverse backgrounds.
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For the purpose of American buyers and readers, it was the Penske Automotive group that brought the Smart Fortwo to market in 2007 and began the process of leasing 100 electric-drive train Smart fortwo cars in 2011.
Within seconds, it was clear that the group was split about how smart I was.
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Some of Dean Foods competitors are Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Smart Balance (SMBL ), Smithfield Foods (SFD), and Whole Foods Markets (WFM).
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The Swatch Group's support for smart watches is significant, since this conglomerate of Swiss watchmakers accounts for some 25% of global watch sales by value.
"We are facing an extinction crisis, " said Jane Smart, director of the biodiversity conservation group with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
But Ray Gogel, president and chief operating officer of the CURRENT Group, who previously ran smart grid projects for Xcel, worries there's too much focus on the "edge" of the grid, where consumers connect.
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Using smart drafting, the team developed a core group of homegrown talent in Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley and Cole Hamels.
To test out the theory the group created a virus for a smart tag that used only 127 characters, uploaded it and watched it in action.
Smart Balance on Aug. 3, acquired Glutino Food Group, the leader in the gluten-free food chain.
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