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...Kevin Stein, chief executive of the Ohio-based aircraft parts group, said that while he could not comment in detail on the company’s plans, it was interested in buying “good solid assets in the aerospace...
...You can almost hear the crackle of excitement among UK credit analysts after Bank of England governor Mark Carney yesterday fleshed out the central bank’s plans for buying corporate bonds....
...In other words, a big stein of fizzy beer often goes down more quickly than a half-pint of a more bespoke brew....
...carrying higher costs. 2) How can Wal-Mart afford to have such low prices and still be so profitable?...
...He says it is a “new frontier in traditional ad buying and selling”, where metrics such as impressions, clicks and key performance indicators that brands are used to buying against do not work on Vine, Snapchat...
...Video ads for Citi appear before the start of each episode and paid off in return-on-investment measures, according to Pete Stein, global chief executive of Publicis’ Razorfish, the digital marketing agency...
...“This type of arrangement, which requires the transfer of design information, is not feasible for American military firms,” Mr Stein added....
...So the buying spree has taken in large utility companies, manufacturers, insurers and much more....
...This enables Climate Corp to outcompete other insurers that cannot assess risk at that level of locale specificity, and enables farmers in Asia and Africa to take on the risk of buying seeds, labor and farm...
...Fed governor Jeremy Stein, in his first monetary policy speech since joining the board in May, said the central bank was targeting MBS as a means of putting more money in homeowners’ pockets....
...All of them would like access to the details about consumers’ shopping habits that can be gleaned by monitoring mobile payments – what are people buying, where and at what time....
...potential investors, amid market rumours that foreign investors such as Siemens, Philips, Amway and China’s Haier and private equity firms such as KKR, Blackstone, Affinity and Carlyle are interested in buying...
...When SM began building shopping centres outside Manila in the early 2000s, it chose locations where families of overseas Filipinos were buying homes....
...Mr Buffett himself has pointed to retail giant Wal-Mart as a family business that successfully opted for professional managers after the death of Sam Walton, its founder, in 1992....
...As leading retailers, including Wal-Mart and JC Penney, continue to grapple with the potential of the internet, the proliferation of smartphones has inevitably caught their attention....
...Mitsubishi Corp, which gets about 40 per cent of sales from commodities, climbed 3.9 per cent to Y2,462. In Shanghai, Jiangxi Copper increased 1.4 per cent to Rmb35.98....
...Large retailers including Wal-Mart and Best Buy have signed on to the experiment, which will offer stores a margin of 25 per cent over the wholesale price....
...In Japan, Nissan gained 5.4 per cent on the week to close at Y822, while in Hong Kong Li & Fung, which supplies retailer Wal-Mart, gained 3 per cent to HK$38.25....
...Greenpeace launched a campaign in 2008 to pressure US retailers to adopt more sustainable seafood buying practices....
...He continues witheringly: “One competitor said that centralised buying had saved them £40m, but their profit was nil.”...
...Wal-Mart is part of the picture but the world’s largest discounter doesn’t steal the show in Shell’s well-researched account....
...Meanwhile, Wal-Mart lost 0.3 per cent to $50.48, in the wake of a 2.1 per cent drop on Wednesday. The retailer warned of a “tough” Christmas with consumers delaying purchases.”...
...1,050 stores target the archetypal middle American family, have been mirrored across the US since the financial crash of last year, with consumers cutting back on non-essential discretionary purchases and buying...
...In August, sales rose by the most in more than three years, boosted by the cash-for-clunkers car buying programme and signs of extra spending by consumers....
...“They were seen as something cheap you might buy on the bottom shelf of Wal-Mart, and architects looked down at the idea.”...
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