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...A structural tailwind for Vietnam as a destination for foreign direct investment remains, said Mohamed Faiz Nagutha, south-east Asia economist at Bank of America Securities....
...The scheme is similar to one advocated by Brent Hoberman, chairman of Founders Factory, in a recent FT opinion piece....
...Another factory in the northern Vietnamese province of Vinh Phuc has been approved by the US company to make smartphones, Nikkei has learnt....
...A crowd of suits and red ties slowly makes its way through a welcome arch made from red balloons, towards a temporary stage bearing a huge red banner that reads: “Grand Opening Risever Machinery, LLC.”...
...Mr Brin, meanwhile, had been drawn to Google’s flights of tech fancy at X, the “moonshot factory” he helped set up to incubate its most ambitious new ventures....
...As with her handbags, Hearst is selling the collection direct to consumer via her website, and direct in person from her new Manhattan store, which opens in the Carlyle Hotel later this year....
...all it’s cracked up to be: “Terry Gou didn’t get where he is today by blithely spending money on huge factories....
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...Financially motivated enthusiasm for – rather than panic about – planned power interruptions to office, factory and household equipment may soon become more commonplace....
...That sort of rapid turnaround extends to shipping direct from factory to store, cutting the working capital costs that often consume many hardware start-ups’ funding, says Mr Casey....
...Steve Rivkin, a broker at Planet Realty LLC, estimates that East Rock’s older-style brownstones and Tudor- or colonial-style homes (originally built for shipping magnates and factory owners) sell for about...
...To be fair, many turbine manufacturers have announced plans to build factories in the UK....
...Terms were agreed for the ECB to begin direct supervision of big eurozone lenders from early 2014....
...Overall, Vietnam wants to increase direct investment in Myanmar from $500m to $2bn and to lift bilateral trade from $167m last year to $500m by 2015....
...Silentnight has also strengthened its online presence by allowing direct sales from its website, instead of only through retailers, from next month....
...GM has pledged, meanwhile, to inject €3bn-worth of patents, factories and non-cash assets into a European holding company, shielded from any US bankruptcy filing....
...However, Mr Rutherfurd warned that vehicle makers and dealers would increasingly direct marketing money to the internet, event sponsorship and other non-traditional outlets....
...And abandoned factories and warehouses have been converted into luxury lofts, outfitted with the requisite Wolf ovens and Sub-Zero refrigerators....
...Mr Katzenberg says direct-to-video films (about $30m to make) will be an integral part of the DreamWorks annual release pattern, in combination with one original film and one sequel....
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