With the Ford Falcon having posted its lowest-ever sales result in 2012, and falling out of the top 20 sales charts by one spot, the new year is a good time to pause, reflect, and ponder again if Australians really are missing out on a good ...
More frugal consumers are evolving the way they shop in response to the austere economic environment, Sainsbury's CEO Justin King has suggested. Sainsbury's booked a 0.9% increase in third-quarter like-for-like sales excluding fuel this ...
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Even before considering the extreme nature of its sub-arctic climate,Fairbanks International Airport is unique in many ways.While serving a local population of only 82,000,the airport offers non-stop passenger service to Europe,Asia and ...
Sales of electric cars in the UK are expected to rise from 3,000 to 6,000 in 2013, according to a report from Next Green Car. The report said that the focus will be less on electric cars and plug-in hybrids, as new low emission petrol and ...
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1. What's "guanxi"? Guanxi is regarded as the central idea in Chinese society with long historical and cultural roots. It is understood and utilized by virtually every Chinese person in greater or lesser measure. Understanding how the ...
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A fully integrated national advertising campaign for the launch of the all-new Honda Civic began April 20.The strategy developed by Honda's long-standing agency of record,RPA,demonstrates the idea that we're all different and there's a ...
Video-conferencing is yesterday's news. VC-on-mobile is the tech of the future. But the CIO of DDB Mudra Group is doing it here and now. New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Vizag, Trivandrum. If this list is exhaustive to ...
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The high-performance Mini Paceman JCW has been officially revealed ahead of its world premiere at the 2013 Detroit motor show in January. The three-door Mini John Cooper Works Paceman will launch in Australia from the middle of next ...
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Naxi, an ethnic group with a history of about 1,700 years in China, is a branch of ancient China's Qiang group and mainly dwells in Naxi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province. "Naxi" became a unified name after the foundation of the People's ...
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The India Analytical Center at AkzoNobel's Bangalore lab will leverage global and local resources to provide analytical services to fulfill the needs of all coatings businesses in India. AkzoNobel employs approximately 150 research, ...
Textured Jersey Lanka PLC(TJL),Sri Lanka's premier manufacturer of knit fabric,demonstrated its operating excellence by doubling net profits for the quarter ended 30 September 2012(2Q FY2012/13),as per the financial results released to the ...
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You may not have heard, but BMW now offers its luxurious 5 Series sedan as hybrid. We recently spent a few days with a BMW ActiveHybrid 5 to see if it lives up to the promise and share our first impressions. The car was borrowed from ...
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Owning a home used to be the standard investment for retirement.You bought when you were in your'20s,then sold in your'60s.Forty years of steadily increasing value meant a nice chunk of money to reinvest and live off of when you stopped ...
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ATLANTA–Acuity Brands,Inc.is delivering high quality direct ambient LED lighting with an architectural focus through its new product Peerless Mino by Peerless Lighting.A suite of three distinctive 2'x 2'direct ambient LED ...
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Beginning with the new year, federal law will require all light bulbs to be 25 percent more efficient, leaving Edison's beacon of late night fun out in the dark and flipping the switch to its more frugal counterparts, notably the ...
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