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...overhauls its product lineup, GM is also improving financially. Although the company has relied heavily on buyer incentives to hold on to its 28% market share, it is still turning a profit. In 2002 GM earned $1.7 billion on sales of $187 billion. By keeping production costs in check and reducing its pension liability with a more risk-averse portfolio, GM impressed investors enough to end 2003 with its stock price up 37%. GM also boasts the highest productivity of the Big Three, requiring 36.7 worker-hours to build a vehicle, compared with nearly 40 at Ford, according...
Wondering if you can trust a particular merchant? Bizrate.com compiles store ratings based on hundreds, thousands or, in some cases, tens of thousands of customer surveys. For the choosy buyer, Shopping.com provides consumer reviews of some of the most popular products...
...anything but his dust. He is responsible for nine of eBay's 23 merchandise categories--including motors, electronics, sports and collectibles, each with more than $1 billion in gross sales. He also proposed eBay's two most successful acquisitions: PayPal, known for simplified electronic transactions between buyer and seller; and Half.com a website that sells secondhand books, music and movies...
...marketed to young people who don't usually read. "Little More doesn't spend any money on the look or the binding of the book at all. They spend money only on the contents, and for the contents they spend as much as they can," says Mayumi Sato, a buyer for Shibuya's Parco Book Center. "They don't publish based on marketing data; they go by what they personally like," says Shingo Wakagi, a photographer whose book Young Tree was published by Little More...
Jaime Kubik, the buyer for Cardullo’s, said the weather has been a huge boon for the gourmet food shop...