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...Last month Google won a legal victory when French judges ruled that the company did not dodge French tax laws and would not have to pay €1.12bn in back taxes....
...And even if distributors dodge the Central and South American political imbroglios and trade disputes that dog the trade, selling bananas is a low-margin business with supermarkets calling the shots....
...But Tesla has moved beyond simply demonstrating an alternative way of doing business. It is keen to bring the incumbents round to its way of thinking....
...In the past 12 months brands such as Unilever and Dodge have begun buying spots and today the top 100 advertisers in America use the site....
...“Maliki for a long time has wanted access to [dollar] reserves that Sinan was holding back to stabilise the [Iraqi] dinar,” said Toby Dodge, an Iraq specialist at the London School of Economics....
...In July, the Iraqi oil ministry denounced Chevron’s deal as “illegal and illegitimate” and said the company would be disqualified from doing business elsewhere in the country....
...Encouraging as this is, what about the rest of the economy? Manufacturing seems to be doing especially well, particularly given healthy exports, but what about the non-manufacturing bit?...
...When US suppliers such as Delphi or Collins & Aikman filed for bankruptcy in 2005, their European units carried on doing business after being sold or ring-fenced from their parents....
...Power’s latest initial quality rankings, one of the industry’s most influential surveys, put Jeep, Dodge and Chrysler all well below average....
...He is also doing a favour for European governments, whose banks would have been hit....
...Meanwhile, it is trying to get its US dealers to consolidate so it can sell all of its brands – Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep – through single outlets. There are lessons here for the airline industry....
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