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...giant L'Oreal. In February, Klein, noting the sums Arnault has been paying and the increasingly treacherous fashion market, also put his company up for sale. Potential suitors--LVMH and Gucci among them--have shied away from Klein's privately held company because its licensing agreements would deny a buyer dominant control of its product lines...
...said Ping, "they need to test [the new glues] in the R&D facility and then in the [manufacturing] plants." In all, the intellectual assembly line will move from CEO to management consultant to purchasing analyst to materials buyer to development tester to factory overseer before the new process for gluing the label to the bottle is complete. It is exceedingly unlikely that any of the 423-million-gallon daily drinkers will notice a thing...
...Ross then prints out the electronic form, attaches it to the receipts and NERF form. She tracks down the hypothetical foreign-student-book-buyer, who must sign the NERF form, makes a photocopy of the whole packet, and brings it to the chemistry department's business office for approval...
Saudi Arabia, for example, remains the key U.S. ally in the Gulf region, an important buyer of U.S. arms exports and an unpopular regime whose long-term stability is threatened by a hostile neighbor and rising Islamic militancy at home. The depressed oil prices of recent years have left its one-trick economy in the doldrums, further threatening the political survival of its pro-Western royal family...
...will have another way to make transactions. eBay and Wells Fargo are rolling out Billpoint, a service that allows sellers to accept credit cards without establishing merchant accounts. Instead of waiting to receive a check or money order, sellers will get immediate payment to their checking account once the buyer inputs his or her credit-card data. After the first three months, sellers using Billpoint will pay 3.5% of the purchase amount plus 35[cents]. Sales under $10 will get off a little easier and cost only 35[cents...