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- 1From:Michigan Lawyers WeeklyByline: Lee Dryden Results from a survey about the state of law firms nationwide don't paint the rosiest picture, but leaders of Michigan's largest firms are optimistic about the future. The 2016 Law Firms in...
- 2From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: MARINA STRAUSS; RETAILING REPORTER Lowe's Cos. Inc. was a sleepy small-town hardware store, rolling out steady growth for 33 years when Home Depot rocked the retail world with its big-box home improvement...
- 3From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: TARA PERKINS; FINANCIAL SERVICES REPORTER Robert Stanley knows a thing or two about banks. As treasurer of a Toronto-based industrial products company, Samuel Manu-Tech Inc., Mr. Stanley deals with five...
- 4From:The New York Times (Vol. 157, Issue 54419)LAST year, advertisements began appearing in magazines depicting sand, surf and, in one case, a model wearing a mysterious silver amulet. ''A lot of people, when they saw the campaign, thought it wasn't selling...
- 5From:The New York TimesTHE problem with doing something well is that people expect you to do even better next time. Corporate profit margins -- earnings as a percentage of revenues -- have been running at close to all-time highs, but they can...
- 6From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: Brent Jang WestJet Airlines Ltd. is aiming to ramp up flights to the U.S., Mexico and Caribbean over the next six years, WestJet chief executive officer Sean Durfy said yesterday. Calgary-based WestJet wants...
- 7From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: [c] 2007 Dow Jones & Co. Inc Ford Motor Co.'s chief executive officer, inaugurating the auto maker's second assembly plant in China, said the company will continue to look for ways to expand in what is...
- 8From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: Bloomberg Hochtief AG, Germany's largest construction company, will buy the real estate unit of Germany's state-owned railway operator for €1.64-billion ($2.36-billion), adding buildings for conversion...
- 9From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: GRANT ROBERTSON; MEDIA REPORTER The massive financial success of films like Ratatouille and Shrek the Third at the box office this year is proof that Hollywood's love affair with cartoons is still running...
- 10From:The New York TimesTHE Standard & Poor's 500-stock index is close to where it stood just before the bursting of the Internet bubble in March 2000. That makes some investors nervous: Could the market be forming another bubble? On the...
- 11From:Brand Strategy (Issue 181)At first glance McDonald's fast food and French gastronomy go together like ... well, they just don't go together. And yet, despite political antipathy between the two countries and diametrically opposed gastronomic...
- 12From:The New York TimesNorth Korea's tentative turn at opening markets is best captured in snapshots of happy South Koreans touring Pyongyang, a long forbidden city lampooned as ''a Stalinist theme park.'' This fall, a South Korean travel...
- 13From:International Business Times (U.S. ed.)The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Titan International, Constellation Energy, Sprint Nextel, Aetna, Pultegroup, Dow Chemical, LSI Corp, Teradyne, Liz Claiborne, Procter & Gamble,...
- 14From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: CATHERINE McLEAN; TELECOM REPORTER The iPhone will hit Europe this week, and at prices that are likely to put pressure on Rogers Communications Inc. to cut its cellphone rates if it wants to be the carrier...
- 15From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: HARVEY SCHACHTER; harvey@harveyschachter.com Salespeople talk of the process of bringing on prospects and turning them into customers as the sales funnel. Stephen Hay, co-founder of Web design house Cinnamon...
- 16From:The New York TimesTelefonica of Spain and a group of Italian investors agreed on Saturday to pay 4.1 billion euros ($5.6 billion) for a controlling 18 percent stake in Telecom Italia, allowing the Spanish telecommunications giant to...
- 17From:North Carolina Lawyers WeeklyByline: Bob Schultz A cooling housing market is no longer a threat lingering somewhere in the future. It is here. Even national builders are starting to see the effects. The good news is that you can still succeed...
- 18From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: TARA PERKINS; FINANCIAL SERVICES REPORTER David Taylor, the exuberant chief executive officer of Pacific & Western Credit Corp., has been wanting to break into the consumer lending business for a couple of...
- 19From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: JEFF GREEN AND HUGO MILLER; Bloomberg News FRANKFURT AND TORONTO -- Chrysler LLC, seeking to expand sales outside the United States, may develop a factory in Russia with Canadian auto parts maker Magna...
- 20From:Washingtonpost.comFor nearly 25 years, Bill and Kathy Rhee scratched out a living selling merchandise and novelties out of a bare-bones store at the District's Florida Avenue Market. There, they were two of several dozen merchants who...