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Industry Focus – Retail: Less Than Six Degrees of Separation

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R etailing involves buying large quantities of goods and selling them in smaller quantities to consumers for a profit. Retail accounts for more than $2 trillion in total GDP impact with consumer spending accounting for more than two-thirds of the U.S. By the BF Staff From the March/April 2016 Issue. Credit: City of Cape Coral).

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The Future of the New-Home Design Studio

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Specifically, today’s consumers want the same on-demand, omni-channel, interactive, customer-focused purchasing experience they've been getting from other retailers for years. Home Builders' Design Studios Go for a Retail Spin. Most retailers would be out of business if their online product catalogs followed that model.

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Top 10 PVC Pipe Manufacturers in India

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Profit: 461 Cr. (FY Profit: 40,889.30 The organization has been giving unrivaled quality PVC-U and CPVC Pipes and Fittings, the whole way across the country through our 18000 or more immediate and aberrant retail outlets. Profit: 350 Cr. Profit: 805.4 Profit: 249.6 Revenue: 2958 Cr. Total income: 5633 Cr. (

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March / April 2016 Issue (Volume 49, Number 2)

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Retail: Shopping for New Jobs | The retail industry has an impact on more than just the clothes in our closets and our daily coffee fix. The World Comes to New Mexico | New Mexico is growing as a leading center of commerce, drawing in manufacturers to produce their goods with access to more markets around the country and the world.

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How Working with a Design-Build Construction Firm Can Boost the Bottom Line

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An architect may dream up an architecturally significant commercial construction project, but once a commercial general contractor takes a look at the drawings and the proposed site, a different reality may have to be addressed. It’s not really a secret, but architects, engineers and commercial general contractors don’t always see eye to eye.

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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

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“Eleven million people in this country are paying more than half of their income for rent, and these are low-income people,” says Richard Burns, CEO of the NHP Foundation, a national not-for-profit provider of affordable housing. Many of these people are one medical bill or one car breakdown away from being homeless,” Burns adds.

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Business Report: Nebraska – Community Development Block Grant Funds Expansion in York

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a non-profit development organization, which, in turn, will make a loan to the company. York County’s workforce draws from seven counties giving its businesses access to a labor pool of 210,698. Black Hills Energy is the retail supplier for natural gas services, with Kinder Morgan as the transmission provider.