The unit is the main holding company for Apple's business outside of the Americas.
This might happen when a Shariah-compliant company in a Shariah-compliant mutual fund acquires a forbidden company, the main business of which is in a forbidden industry such as finance or hog farming.
The main business of a company called Command Security Corporation, based in upstate New York, was hiring out security guards, and an association with Rudy Giuliani offered an obvious chance to heighten its profile and trade on his name.
Bakrie is actually the listed holding company for a number of operating companies in the conglomerate's three main lines of business: rubber plantations, telecoms and oil-industry infrastructure.
Medical devices and pharmaceuticals are the company's two main platforms for extending its business as it moves forward.
The company is made up of two main types of business - luxury goods and sports and lifestyle brands.
Starting Jan. 1 Nokia will reshuffle the entire company to create a new business group around Internet services and software, separate from the main phone business.
The company's biggest problem has been its flexible-packaging business, the smallest of the three main product groups, which has been hit by fierce competition in Europe and by poor management.
Its main business is Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company, which is one of the largest medium-duty diesel engine manufacturers in China.
The main reason a business should care about thought leadership ties back to how their company is viewed by the marketplace.
And it might just work, if BP can avoid getting dragged into a morass of tangential health claims like the ones that sank just about every company that manufactured or installed asbestos products as a main line of business.
The finance minister, Amit Mitra, an economist and former boss of India's main business lobby, stands in an office in Writers' Building, once used by the East India Company.
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