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...A shopkeeper at a convenience store said business was picking up, and new stores planned to begin operating in the coming months as pandemic restrictions were lifted and travel from mainland China and elsewhere...
...As minister of finance, you have a lot of expertise around you. But when it comes down to it, it is you who has to make that crucial decision that will affect a lot of people, often under pressure....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...Now influential voices on the right have joined them, claiming that corporate America is pushing a radical progressive ideology....
...Nor is he the bleeding-heart executive making progressive policy through his company’s benefits package....
...Digitising small businesses in emerging markets also has big implications for global corporations, said Shopmatic CEO Anurag Avula....
...While at times self-aggrandising, Zimmer can allow himself this attitude: he built a store into a multibillion-dollar corporation traded on the New York Stock Exchange....
...“This season will be crucial for a lot of the brands hit by Covid-19,” said Mr Pathak. “There will be an uptick in sales for sure, we just don’t know how big.”...
...But by the time Ndongala discovered Norman’s, mom-and-pop stores had been eclipsed as the driver of Nike sales by international chains and ecommerce....
...But nearing its peak meant there was a lot further for SocGen to fall....
...For many years, international sales even by larger studios have been haphazardly managed....
...We suspect the prime reason why people outside the UK will buy Liverpool shirts is because the team is winning big international competitions like the European Cup....
...However, Gilead has what AZN doesn’t - a lot of cash ($24bn as of Q1)....
...Xiaomi Corporation SECTOR: TECHNOLOGY / HQ: BEIJING, CHINA Huawei’s horrible year has been a windfall for China’s other big smartphone maker....
...First, the industry obviously needs international travel to resume and ports to reopen to ships....
...But the course of the pandemic will have a big impact on the relative income of big urban city centres....
...Last year, China Rapid Finance Ltd, Qudian Inc, Hexindai Inc, Jianpu Technology and PPDAI Group Inc went public in the US....
...Wind and solar power accounted for a puny 4.4 per cent of global electricity in 2015, and big battery systems can only store enough power to satisfy a few seconds of global electricity demand, says the International...
...Iclisoy’s main competition is not necessarily the big corporations but rather the ranks of independent players who make their wares in small batches and sell them online and at local farmers’ markets....
...Luxembourg is the size of a small asteroid, but the Grand Duchy has big ambitions in outer space....
...Not just individual bloggers and other self-publishers, but also companies and corporations....
...“I went to a meeting and found a lot of people felt the same way.”...
...This is the kind of progressive social policy that this Government is proud to pioneer....
...“Most of the services in these big blocks are way beyond the affordability of social housing tenants.”...
...“It’s not a commercial exercise,” says Karl Heinz Salzburger, who heads the international division of Vans-owner VF Corporation. “We don’t sell any products here.” So what is it?...
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