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...Founded by CEO Günther Fielmann in 1972, the publicly traded company can afford to be aggressive. While the total optical market in Germany grew 3.2% in 2008, Fielmann's sales jumped 7%, according to the Central Association of German Opticians. Total net profit soared 39% to $163 million. Company officials attribute the results to the company's size. Fielmann sources frames in bulk, from both cheap Asian manufacturers and designer brands, keeping costs low. Indeed, Fielmann's expansive mood shows that farsightedness can be a virtue: you can envision the day when the recession will...
...BILLION Total government aid GM will receive, including $9.5 billion from the Canadian government...
...BILLION Estimated total public price tag for the auto-industry bailout...
...Proportion of GM's total sales that were outside...
...over the years seen many of its able-bodied men leave to work in the more prosperous cities of Russia and oil-rich Kazakhstan - at least a tenth of the Tajik population of 7 million is migrant labor. Remittances sent home comprise some 40% of the country's total GDP, according to UN figures, and account for only slightly less in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Now, with the collapse of the Russian economy and the drying up of its construction boom, tens of thousands are returning to rugged homelands that offer few opportunities and to families that depended on their labor...