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...For Raymond Chandler, advertising agencies were the acme of the “waste of human intelligence”. But the century-old tradition may have died with Weldon....
...During the quarter, however, those businesses — including the brick maker Acme and flooring group Shaw — were able to raise prices and registered strong demand....
...As the companies invest more in their businesses, with the certainty or hope that Facebook, Ford or Acme will “migrate” their data and apps to servers in the datacentres, they raise more funds with equity...
...Earlier this year, Albertsons — which operates stores under its own name and banners including Safeway, Acme and United Supermarkets — agreed to purchase drugstore chain Rite Aid in a bid to head off the...
...Imagine we purchase a packaging company, Acme Spackle Ltd....
...Privately held Albertsons — which operates grocers under its own name and more than a dozen other banners including Safeway, Acme and United Supermarkets — will own roughly 71 per cent of the new group,...
...Given the scrutiny Mr Musk is under, we thought it would be helpful to run it through our acme guff-bot 3000 translation machine....
...When it comes to management challenges, fish fingers and circuses are at opposite extremes: one product is the acme of industrialised food processing, the other the ultimate expression of human creativity...
...The forum is thought of as the acme of corporate self-confidence. It is in fact designed to exacerbate executive angst. Every participant is afflicted by Stardust Memories Syndrome....
...Oracle continued to make large acquisitions to bolster its business, paying $2.1bn last month to buy Acme Packet, a provider of security communications technology, as it strives to move further into cloud...
...Taking out Acme Packet’s cash, Oracle said it was paying $1.7bn....
...The deal values shares in Acme Packet at $29.25, a 22 per cent premium to its closing price on Friday....
...- Why the Acme Brick Company et al are Berkshire’s secret weapons....
...Accordingly, Mr Lovejoy has established three supply chains – each built around Acme’s three factories in Chicago, Brazil and Shenzhen, China....
...This goes even for Apple, the acme of effortless cool....
...So less than four months after promoting Nexus One as the acme of its mobile technology, Google is now telling customers to buy another gadget direct from Verizon instead....
...And with a budget deficit of about 2.5 per cent of GDP, Brazil looks like the acme of fiscal prudence....
...There is more for the big supermarkets in exploiting that trend than in mounting a headlong assault on Tesco’s cannon, which would make the charge of the Light Brigade look like the acme of military genius...
...UK governance is not yet the acme of perfection, but the US might benefit by borrowing one other aspect of it....
...Shaw’s in New England, Jewel Osco in Chicago, and Acme in Phildelphia are all in reasonable shape. Those could go to Supervalu, bidding alongside Cerberus....
...Under the deal, Supervalu will take over 1,126 of Albertson’s best-performing supermarkets across the US, including the Shaw’s, Acme and Jewel names....
...This might suggest Acme Whistles will veer into dangerous waters without his hand on the tiller; after all, Acme boasts, with curious pride, that it supplied whistles to officers on the doomed Titanic....
...Albertson’s also said it is extending its RFID tagging test programme to its 140 store Acme division on the east coast, with 15 stores introducing the technology in 2005, followed by the remaining stores...
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