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...They also supported victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, opening warehouses, mobilising staff and distributing goods while the Federal Emergency Management Agency remained largely paralysed....
...AB, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Janus Henderson and JPMorgan will also each be likely to have multiple funds distributing double-digit-percentage gains, Morningstar’s report notes....
...Achieving such a feat will rely on innovations dating back to the 19th century, whose far-reaching consequences were less apparent at the time....
...Netflix also competes against established studios such as Universal Pictures, Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, and Warner Bros....
...It all seems very last century, if not 19th century. Back then, Andrew Carnegie was determined to own coal mines and railroads as well as steel mills......
...Disney consistently earns pretax margins of more than 25 per cent. 21st Century Fox has pretax margins of about 17 per cent. Time Warner has pretax margins of about 18 per cent....
...Tontines were largely banned in the US a century ago, hundreds of years after the Brits outlawed them....
...As the British Empire expanded in the 19th century, the English planted their easels across the lands on which the sun would never set....
...AT&T could also favour that content on its own distribution network over programmes from rivals such as Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox....
...A century later, executives at some of the world’s biggest automakers are growing confident that they can pull off a similar trick for electric vehicles....
...He was replaced by Chase Carey, a former executive vice-chairman of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox....
...Not all of Hollywood is on board with the company’s approach to producing and distributing movies....
...TCI regularly took stakes in cable networks in return for distributing those channels and at various times has owned stakes in Viacom, Turner networks and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel....
...Photographs: AccuSoft Inc.; Artcurial...
...ValueAct is likely to support a more aggressive strategy for distributing TV shows directly to consumers or through Hulu, the streaming service it owns jointly with Disney and Comcast....
...The system functioned well enough during the 20th century when music was distributed by physical means such as CDs, cassettes and vinyl....
...The future of the electric cars looks brighter than at any time since the early 20th century....
...Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher....
...It produced one of the most iconic cars ever and, for a period in the 20th century, dominated the Indian auto industry....
...By the start of the 21st century, the library had become a cash machine, cornerstone of the company – and a prize coveted by rivals....
...However, many US managers coming to Europe are mainly distributing funds manufactured in the US, while just a tiny minority are setting up manufacturing centres here, says Mr Rajan....
...Walt Disney has also moved to cut costs at its studio, with Bob Iger, chief executive, saying during a recent earnings call that the cost of “distributing and marketing DVDs needs to be addressed”....
...However it believes that, unlike the aftermath of the last tech bust at the turn of the century, a quick rebound will follow as financial conditions improve....
...According to Prof Lanzolla, enthusiasm for cross-boundary convergence reached its zenith in the early years of this century and has now gone as far as it can....
...Mark Dion’s “Mobile Gull Appreciation Unit” is a kind of ornithological ice-cream van, distributing pamphlets on birds rather than cones....
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