“The National Retail Federation (NRF) will continue its constructive dialogue with the Administration and Congress on the Affordable Care Act, in order to address some of the serious implementation challenges confronting our ...
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NRF expects sales in the months of November and December to marginally increase 3.9 percent to $602.1 billion, over 2012’s actual 3.5 percent holiday season sales growth. The forecast is higher than the 10-year average holiday sales ...
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Editor's note: The following blog was written by James Moore, owner of?Moore's Bicycle Shop in?Hattiesburg,?Miss. Moore is the new president of the National Bicycle Dealers Association. When I opened my bike shop in 1984 an eight-year-old ...
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US-based life insurer MetLife has finalized acquisition of a 64.3% stake of Chilean pension fund administrator, AFP Provida from Spanish bank BBVA, in a deal worth approximately $1.54bn. From the sale of AFP, the Spanish bank received ...
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Arthur J Gallagher, a US-based insurance brokerage and risk management services company, has acquired RJ Dutton of Overland Park, Kansas, a provider of employee benefit consultation and brokerage services across the country. Financial ...
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San Francisco-based private equity investment firm Hellman & Friedman has acquired Chicago-based insurance brokerage firm, Hub International, from Apax Partners, in a transaction worth approximately $4.4bn. Commenting on the transaction, ...
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One thing every office needs is place for employees to sit. If you’re a startup on a budget, you can avoid facing these wide open spaces by applying for furniture credit. It’s true that furnishing an office isn’t cheap. ...
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At the SAE 2013 AeroTech Congress and Exhibition on Tuesday, September 24, Mark Vedder from NuSil Technology's Aerospace and Defense team spoke on "Improving Aerodynamics with Exterior Silicone Ice-Release Coatings in Icing Conditions with ...
US-based insurer MetLife, Bank for Investment & Development of Vietnam (BIDV), and Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam Insurance Corporation (BIC), have reached an agreement to form a life insurance joint venture (JV) in Vietnam. ...
The AEPC-ATDC SMART Bhawan the 4th permanent campus building in NCR was inaugurated at the hands of Dr. Kavuru Sambasiva Rao, Hon’ble Minister of Textiles, Government of India; at Faridabad – Haryana. The AEPC-ATDC Bhawan and ...
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Mobile technologies are presenting great opportunities and challenges to even the savviest of IT. Smartphones and tablets are replacing personal computers at an accelerated pace. Corporate executives, employees, business partners and ...
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J. R. Harris, better known as "Junior" in the flooring industry with his big cowboy hat and boots, was honored as the second recipient of the Chris Davis Award for his numerous contributions to installation. Junior was instrumental in ...
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Sun Life Financial's US business group has introduced a new Stop-Loss Cancer rider, to help employers better protect themselves and their employees against the costs of cancer treatment. The insurer said that the rider offers an enhanced ...
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Cargill, a US-based agribusiness company, has inaugurated a $250m poultry operation in Lai’an, Anhui province, China, as part of its efforts to support the modernization of agriculture and food safety in the country. The project ...
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison chose not to deliver a keynote to a full conference space of Oracle OpenWorld 2013 visitors today, apparently choosing to watch an Oracle-sponsored America's Cup boat race rather than share his speech on the ...
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