The DVD rental business was the clear driver of results as their other divisions experienced revenue declines.
Normally, business investment is the key driver of the business cycle.
But just like today and the Web, there was a business driver behind the changes too.
The business would have kept its driver, the driver would have some income, and the family would have gotten paid its support.
Of that, at least, surely the tough-talking Sir Alan, who has described his own target market as the "truck driver and his wife" and business as "all about the punters", would begrudgingly approve.
As that replacement demand becomes an even greater driver of the iPhone business than it was just a few years ago, it means the rocket ship ride that was the iPhone will slow.
At the meeting a taxi driver said the late night and weekend services would harm his business.
He was fiddling through a restless retirement in Nashville in 1991 after selling his thermoplastics business to Exxon, when the driver's side window of the car stopped fitting flush into the door.
According to McGoey, the key information these hijackers would have needed is Social Security numbers (often the unique identifier for business use), driver's license numbers, and date of birth or birth certificates.
Ms Lagwinowicz, and Mr Dmytryszyn, 38, are accused of driving the business analyst's body to a nearby roadside, placing her in the driver seat of her red Ford Focus and setting the car alight with petrol.
Cintas would gain no benefit from these drivers changing how lost business was accounted for, only the driver himself.
Add to the carnage the threats of tightening credit, more business failures, higher unemployment and a shriveling of consumer spending, the key driver in America's GDP.
And yes, it still owns the legacy search engine business, which is an important driver for companies like Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Yahoo!
Creating more wealth isn't the driver This consummate dealmaker is motivated by unfinished business.
And that presents a chicken-or-egg problem given that high unemployment is the key driver of economy uncertainty, especially among small business owners.
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While China is a big growth driver for the retail side of the iPhone business, the enterprise is also growing increasingly fond of the iPhone.
Randy Bishop, a former business owner and truck driver, ran for the state Senate last year as a Republican and identifies as the Tea Party leader in Traverse City.
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Some tough love, resources, and air cover from the CEO will transform marketing from an order taker to a business driver.
The American Express Global Business Travel Forecast 2013, released in October 2012, notes that economic growth from Argentina to Poland -- and the business people looking to capitalise on it -- will be the main driver for executive trips in 2013.
The top driver, selected by 72% of all respondents, was to make better informed business decisions.
Tuesday's detentions are a possible setback for the French bank, which has described Russia as a key growth driver to help offset shrinking business at home.
And with the U.S. right about 10 years out from when the housing bubble really started picking up speed, he expects that business to be a big growth driver.
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"In the eyes of brand decision makers, she was a personality who happened to be a very good race car driver, " says Dan Migala, who runs a sports business newsletter called the Migala Report.
And even as business slowly improves in the United States, HSBC is still looking to emerging markets as its real growth driver.
Without abandoning the traditional tasks of controlling costs and increasing efficiency, IT must be increasingly viewed as a driver of greater business innovation and impact.
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Since marketing is increasingly recognized as a revenue driver, are we losing sight of other metrics that help us measure the growth and health of the business?
It was a pitch-perfect sky blue day when the driver arrived to chauffeur me around town in the 2012 Bentley Mulsanne for a full day of New York business on a Monday in August.
The bundled software includes PhotoDeluxe Business Edition, OmniPage LE for OCR, PageKeeper Standard, and HP's own TWAIN driver (PrecisionScan), which does a good job of automatically making adjustments (exposure, color balance, and the like) when scanning color photos.
U.S. business leaders are more tightfisted than earlier this year, worrying some folks that a major growth driver of the shaky U.S. economy will screech to a halt if companies hoard cash instead of spending it on new plants, equipment and technology.
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