Until January the company's "ring fence" kept foreign investment below 20%, and the scarcity value of Western shares gave them a 40% to 50% premium above their Moscow price.
Western Union's value proposition to a local operator: Rather than sign 200 bilateral agreements to offer remittances in 200 different markets, "connect into our global network, and we will allow that local service to become a global service, " says Matt Dill, general manager of Western Union Mobile.
Since then, Western Wind has substantially increased in value by bringing its Windstar development into commercial operation, and by making substantial progress with Yabucoa.
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Thanks to a concerted effort by our industry association--the National Association of Software and Service Companies--by individual companies in our industry and by the government of India, we mounted a campaign to enhance awareness among prospective clients in Western countries of our sector's value proposition.
Levering the balance sheet pulled in the roof of the whole western economy and now going too far up the value chain and being the brand just might pull in the walls.
The example of Senegal (and, indeed, the strongly worded, morally neutral advertising campaigns conducted in many western countries in the 1980s), shows the value of early action as surely as do Dr Anderson's models.
Western firms are countering the Indians' move up the value ladder by moving their own operations there or buying up rivals.
And all of us, Western and Arab, Christian or Muslim, who put the value of tolerance, respect and peaceful co-existence above those of sectarian hatred, should join together to defeat them.
Each caller is assigned a unique ID which can be used to receive a reward from Western Union, should the corporate client determine that the information has value.
We got into it because we were doing a traditional value play, buying the spinning disk drive maker Seagate and Western Digital.
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New construction is going on in the north and western part of Zurich and high property prices in the rest of city mean people look there for value.
Whereas in previous decades these traits gave clusters advantages over the big industrial sprawl of competing western economies, these days the processes are too inefficient to be competitive in all but the highest-value segments.
First from high prices dissuading new buyers (as seen in Western jewelry demand since 2005) but more significantly from state interference in a market averaging 36% compound growth by value each year since 2001.
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