Word: retail
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...case of Kingdom Come, Ballard had to look no farther than Shepperton, hard by the M25 and Heathrow. "I've seen the southeast of England transformed from a realm of Georgian restorations, Gothic quadrangles and village greens into a world of motorways, surveillance cameras, business parks and vast retail operations. I've seen the proliferation of St. George's flags, as the white middle class retribalizes itself. It's not racist, yet. But we've had waves of immigration in recent years, and the whites are now saying, 'Remember us?' Politics has become a public utility, like sewerage...
...professor of politics and author of two books on Brazil's political parties. "There is more money around and it is reaching more people." The purchases made by those people, economists say, are helping breathe life into the economy, especially in the places where it was suffering. While retail sales in the south actually dropped 0.29% in the year ending May 2006, they rose 16% in the impoverished north and northeast thanks largely to the injection of Bolsa Familia cash, says Marcelo Neri, director at a Rio business school and author of a recent report on inequality. "In some places...
...meaning," says Ian Railton, Italy-based head of Whirlpool's Ikea account team. The 14 people sweating it out in the Romanian sun certainly share an incentive to work well together. Normally, these designers, project managers, salesmen and marketers manage a multimillion-dollar relationship between Ikea and Whirlpool, the retail chain's exclusive supplier of kitchen appliances. Such strategic partnerships require cohesion, but there is a limit to how much colleagues can bond by e-mail or phone. So now, for three days, they are donning hard hats and tool belts, and building wooden wall frames for some...
Here, in the very heart of Veritas, if there is at least one truth commonly realized, it must be that a community as vibrant, diverse, and intellectually stimulating as ours has virtually no chance of survival without the presence of the greatest number of retail banking institutions possible. Unfortunately for those misguided entrepreneurs who pursue some non-banking related venture in the Square, the nurturing and manifestation of our collective destiny through this pervasive banking presence cannot come without a price...
Lenovo is almost as entrenched in China as the Great Wall, with more than 9,000 retail stores and other sales outlets, giving it an indisputable advantage over its competition in the world's fastest-growing economy. Lenovo owns 35% of the market, according to tech consulting firm IDC. (Dell, the largest foreign player, is No. 3, with 10%.) Chinese consider Lenovo one of the country's most trustworthy brands and a symbol of Chinese entrepreneurship...