Word: retail
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...normal growth rate. Some of the increase included sales of old Coke still on store shelves, but most of it was the new drink. That amounts to a lot of bubbles in a business in which every percentage-point increase in the market share adds $280 million in retail sales on a yearly basis. Coke claims its surveys show that 120 million Americans have tried the drink if only out of curiosity, and 75% of those say they will buy the new Coke again...
...taxpayers to deduct those funds from their federal total. For those who itemize their deductions, especially if they live in a state with high taxes, the largest single write- off on their federal return is often the combined total of state and local taxes on income, real estate and retail sales. Residents of New York State who took the deduction in 1982, for example, saved an average of nearly $1,300 on their federal tax bill. Not coincidentally, the Empire State also imposes the nation's highest state and local tax rates...
...future looks bright for the firm. They have written books to accompany Digital's courseware and have basically taught AT&T's salesmen, "salesmen who before were just selling telephones," how to use their minicomputer, the UNIX PC. In fact, many retail stores selling AT&T computers now use the demo the two wrote to show off the features of the UNIX...
...South Africa in 1897, and today has $400 million invested in the country, principally two main subsidiaries: Mobil Oil Southern Africa (MOSA) and Mobil Refining Company South Africa. MOSA sells fuels, lubricants, asphalt other products, owns about 1211 service station and has about 20.7 percent of the country's retail gasoline market share, according to company figures. Through the refining company, it owns 65,000-barrel-a-day refinery at Durban and 47 percent of a South African refining company. Some 3182 of Mobil's 178,100 worldwide employees are South Africans: of those 3182, 1014 are Black. I most...
Today, Harvard is planning to built 50 units of affiliate housing and ground level retail space at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Banks Streets. A noticable departure from Pusey-era architecture, tentative plans for the proposed structure at 8:10 Mt. Mt. Auburn St. call for a return to the traditional Georgian Revival style. That is, if the community allows Harvard proceed...