Hints and tips:
...The charging system has “significant value for UPS, both in terms of saving money and being seen to be a leader in this area”, said Frank Proud, director at market research company Apex Insight....
...Office managers are the unsung heroes of the workplace, keeping printers running and supply cabinets filled. Staples, the US office goods merchant, wants to put them on a pedestal....
...The first half of the MoMA show tenders Rauschenberg at the very apex of genius in the mid-1950s....
...That is the dilemma for Office Depot, the second-largest US purveyor of paper, pens and other knick-knacks that desk jockeys pilfer from the office supply cabinet....
...Rivals Office Depot and OfficeMax merged last year, but have not given a plan for their 2,200 stores globally....
...“I still gotta get cabinets, flooring,” he says, inching his cart towards the car park. “I’ll be back. We’re not done.”...
...Ministers have talked about 2,000 new jobs, although many of these are construction jobs on new depots. The DfT has justified the decision on the basis of “best value for money for taxpayers.”...
...The French president told a meeting of the cabinet on Wednesday he would go “all the way to the end” and he ruled out further changes to the pension reform bill which is before the Senate....
...Cybersource, which was founded in 1994, listed on Nasdaq in 1999 as the dotcom bubble approached its apex....
...During the fourth quarter Lowe’s saw positive growth in sales of flooring and of cabinets and cabinet tops, a category that had seen sales fall for more than three years....
...Home Depot, the home improvement retailer, reported improvements in its fourth quarter sales of expensive items such as kitchen cabinets, mirroring results on Monday at rival Lowe’s....
...At Home Depot, the largest US home improvement retailer, customers are again buying kitchen counter tops and bathroom cabinets....
...Bazaarvoice now works with more than 500 brands belonging to companies including Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Boots, Argos, Lego and Procter & Gamble....
...Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, will report its first-quarter results Tuesday....
...Look at former chief executive Bob Nardelli’s introduction of Six Sigma disciplines at Home Depot, the DIY chain, in the US....
...and Apex Silver of the US....
...That said, the inventor of aspirin is hardly a high-risk proposition, and its Aspirin bond investors are unlikely to have to rush to the medicine cabinet....
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