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...The setting is Los Angeles, a low-rise beige-out of warehouses and mini-marts....
...Still, with the country’s mini marts and convenience stores poised for aggressive growth around the country this year — CP All Group is set to operate 11,000 stores by the end of the year — changing people...
...Wal-Mart owns Asda; Apple claims to have 6500 employees in the UK; BMW still has significant operations associated with its Mini brand; AT&T claims to employ almost 1500 people in the UK....
...It is more important to work with local retailers and distributors to get the product out to the mini-marts, small eateries and street stalls where lower income Indonesians spend their cash....
...The rebound in the world’s second-largest economy was largely the result of government efforts to shore up growth with looser monetary policy and a “mini-stimulus” of investment in infrastructure such as...
...And I know their trade has suffered badly since Sainsbury’s opened up a mini-mart, six months ago....
...The working-class Harehills neighbourhood in Leeds is an unlikely crossroads for global criminality – a jumble of down-market stores, pungent take-aways and immigrant-owned mini-marts featuring adverts...
...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....
...Colgate-Palmolive launched a disposable breath-freshening mini-toothbrush system in March that took 3 per cent of the total toothbrush market in the last week of the month....
...Dell, which is offering its Inspiron Mini 9 netbook for $299 in a Cyber Monday sale, is suffering from an image problem in retail stores, according to Thomas Weisel, with respondents reporting high rates...
...Apple has been promoting the touch’s capabilities beyond music and video, with adverts showing its attributes as a games console and a mini-computer....
...Wal-Mart and Tesco are opening mini-stores across the American West in a bid to draw customers who have had enough of giant supercentres....
...And hard work can reap material rewards: Jerónimo the newspaper vendor has saved enough to build a house and a mini-mart....
...Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the mini-classic Nickel and Dimed (2001), has brought out a collection of her most biting journalism and certainly thinks so....
...On the more positive side, HSBC is busy building its “sustainable” image on one mini-site that is packed with engaging case studies, and another that hosts a lively forum....
...The greening of Wal-Mart continues apace, represented in its most banal form by the mini-sized business cards made from recycled paper that its executives now wield....
...Wal-Mart reported a 6.8 per cent preliminary gain in same-store sales for April compared with last year....
...Prof Warrian calls it the Wal-Mart of Canadian steel companies....
...Wolfson Microelectronics rose 3.2 per cent to 207½p after its chip was included in Apple’s new ultra-compact iPod Nano, the successor to the iPod Mini....
...Instead, the autumn back-to-college marketing campaign this year included more slickly produced lifestyle imagery, stressing goods such as a mini-cube-shaped MP3 player....
...The city's Audubon zoo and the Wal-Mart car park have been converted into command centres....
...This year, for example, Glassworks, a London-based house, became one of the few non-US companies to win a visual effects Emmy for its work on Dreamkeeper, a US television mini-series based around Native...
...Wal-Mart TV reaches 133m people a month and its imitators are sprouting up around the world....
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