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...The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone, Bantam Press RRP£18.99/Little, Brown RRP$28, 384 pages Seventeen years ago, as Jeff Bezos’s Amazon.com raised $8m in venture capital...
...Shares in Sears Holdings lost 6.4 per cent to $40.16 after the operator of department stores in the US and Canada announced the sudden departure of Lou D’Ambrosio, its chief executive....
...However, LMC forecaster Jeff Schuster expects GM to report global production of 9.23m vehicles this year, more than VW....
...GM’s July sales included a 25 per cent advance for its four remaining brands, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC....
...“The numbers have come in stronger than we expected, said Jeff Schuster, executive director of global forecasting at JD Power. “We can safely say that the industry has turned the corner.”...
...The squeeze on the industry was underlined over the weekend when Georgia-based Bill Heard Enterprises, General Motors’ biggest Chevrolet dealership, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection....
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