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Cross, the company that developed the ballpoint pen and the mechanical pencil, opened its first-ever retail store this weekend at Zero Brattle...
...read with interest the letter titled “Bookstores, Not Publishers, To Blame For High Prices” (April 19). Textbook prices are high, but the selling price of a book begins with the publisher cost. The publisher sets the baseline cost to a retailer which includes a mark-up to cover the publisher’s costs of development, royalties, marketing, printing and a profit. The campus bookstore is a retailer and will take the publisher’s cost and add a mark-up that hopefully covers the store’s costs of ordering, receiving, selling...
Quincy succeeded in purchasing TRCs amounting to a little more than two percent of its annual electricity usage, at a one-time cost of $399. This comes out to a premium of one cent per kilowatt-hour on top of the retail rate of electricity of roughly five to 10 cents per kilowatt-hour. This simple calculation yields some huge insight—if the University were to supply all its electricity using renewable energy, it would have to either purchase TRCs or invest in a wind farm of its own. Quincy’s Wind Project combines both TRCs...
...have a very exclusive product here and we feel that the market is the right fit,” Kerry Barnes, the director of retail stores for Adidas, said last night at a promotional party for the new store...
...communal approach has helped him build the Philippines' equivalent of Wal-Mart Stores. SM Group is a retail giant, with 38,600 employees and annual revenues of $1.7 billion. Despite that success, Sy's children realize that the all-in-the-family management style is becoming outdated. Like so many of Asia's big business clans, a generational shift and the stresses of running an increasingly complex company are forcing the insular Sys to open up more to outsiders. "For my father, the organization is the family," says Sy's eldest daughter Teresita Sy-Coson, known as Tessie...