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65 unusual facts about Business


Abe Cherian

He expanded the service to provide for B2B and B2C, including Business Entrepreneurs and marketers.

American Journal of Business

It is currently sponsored by 10 universities accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, including Ball State University, Bowling Green State University, Central Michigan University, Cleveland State University, Miami University, Northern Illinois University, Ohio University, the University of Toledo, the University of Akron, and Western Michigan University.

ASCII Corporation

On November 26, 2001 CSK Corporation and Unison Capital Partners L.P. announced the approval of transferring the control of its subsidiary ASCII to Unison Capital Partners L.P., effective on 2002-03-30, as part of the strategy to focus the CSK's group operations on B2B businesses.

B2B

Business-to-business, commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer

Business architecture

Business Architecture articulates the functional structure of a enterprise in terms of its business services and business information.

Business architecture is the bridge between the enterprise business model and enterprise strategy on one side, and the business functionality of the enterprise on the other side.

Business-to-government

These can be state, local or federal contracts and some may be grandfathered in by other entities (i.e. California's MAS Multiple Award Schedule will recognize the federal government contract holder's prices on a General Services Administration Schedule).

Business, Innovation and Skills Committee

The Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that came into existence on 1 October 2009, replacing the Business and Enterprise Select Committee, which was dissolved on 30 September 2009.

Business.hr

Like their only Croatian competitor Poslovni dnevnik, the paper also runs the business.hr website, which re-published feature articles from the print edition, along with short current news items and a full overview of daily stock market indices from the Zagreb Stock Exchange and other stock exchanges from the region.

Business/IT alignment

S. De Haes, and Wim Van Grembergen, “An Exploratory Study into IT Governance Implementations and its Impact on Business/IT Alignment”, Information Systems Management, Vol.

Wim Van Grembergen, and S. De Haes, “A Research Journey into Enterprise Governance of IT, Business/IT Alignment and Value Creation”, International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance, Vol.

S. De Haes, and Wim Van Grembergen, “Exploring the relationship between IT governance practices and business/IT alignment through extreme case analysis in Belgian mid-to-large size financial enterprises”, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol.

S. De Haes, and Wim Van Grembergen, “An Exploratory Study into the Design of an IT Governance Minimum Baseline through Delphi Research”, Communications of AIS, No. 22, 2008, pp.

Business/SPEA Information Commons

The new library's design won a 1983 National Exhibit Award from the American Association of School Administrators, a 1983 Design Award from the National School Boards Association, and a 1984 Merit Award from the Minnesota Society of Landscape Architects.

Cecil Chisholm

Thomas Cecil Chisholm (1888 - 24 November 1961) was a British journalist, publisher and author noted for his 1914 biography of Sir John French, and books on Repertory theatre, Economics, and Business.

Chicanos Por La Causa

Business lending, commercial development, and employment & training.

Coopérative de Pêche de Guyane

Coopérative de Pêche de Guyane (CODEPEG) is a fishing enterprise in French Guiana.

Cosumnes River College

In September 1975 the Business/Social Science building was dedicated, which included computer laboratories.

Curly Watts

Opposition from his old-fashioned parents Arthur and Eunice led to tension between the couple, and Shirley left when Curly threw out the guests at his surprise party so he could revise for upcoming HND exams in Business Studies.

Dietitian

Business dietitians serve as resource people in food and nutrition through business, marketing and communications.

Divesh Shah

His mental calculation workshop offers a package of Business, Economics, Mathematics, Science, Hindi and many more subjects for tuition.

Divitas Networks

The start up manufactures and sells a suite of server and client software designed for enterprise customers.

Elon University School of Law

Established in 2006, the School features concentrations in Business, Litigation, Public interest, and General practice.

Enterprises in the Soviet Union

Enterprises and production units engaged in economic activities that are generally undertaken by business-enterprises in capitalist systems.

Executive Order 13303

In effect, EO 13303 provides an extraordinarily broad legal shield for any and all contractors and mercenaries working in Iraq on behalf of US corporations in any oil related enterprise.

FilmTack

The new slogan "Empowering Window Films Businesses" was unveiled in 2011, to reflect the corporate focus on B2B Business with major private-labels and tint shops in the window film industry.

Frank Appel

In this position, he was responsible for Global Business Services including Legal Services Insurance and Risk Management, Corporate Procurement, Information Technology, Corporate Real Estate, Finance Operations, DPWN Business Consulting and Global Customer Solutions at DHL.

G2B

G2B is an acronym for Government-to-business.

Garden City Community College

Associate of Applied Science is a terminal degree designed to provide students with occupational skills in a variety of areas; these areas include Mass Communications, Agriculture, Business, Environmental Technology, Personal Service, Hospitality Management, Health Information Management, Information Technology, Industrial Technology, Flight Instructor, and Public Service.

George H. Love

His process improvements included focusing on industrial sales rather than private distribution, major changes in the safety requirements of coal mining, removing primitive implements such as mules and picks with modern mechanical equipment.

Global Open Water Swimming Conference

The conference offers four central themes: Training, Business, Racing and Lifestyle with each presentation geared towards providing different perspectives on these themes.

Government-to-business

Government-to-Business (abbreviated G2B) is the online non-commercial interaction between local and central government and the commercial business sector, rather than private individuals (G2C), with the purpose of providing businesses information and advice on e-business 'best practices'.

Harkness Tower

The next level of sculpture consists of allegorical figures depicting Medicine, Business, Law, the Church, Courage and Effort, War and Peace, Generosity and Order, Justice and Truth, Life and Progress, and Death and Freedom.

Henry Ejdelbaum

ASC Finance for Business specialises in obtaining business finance for SME's.

AIMS Accountants for Business is a network of professional accountants specialising in the accountancy needs of independent businesses.

In 2005 Henry was interviewed on the 5 Live Radio show for his company AIMS Accountants for Business.

ASC Finance for Business has four core products range: Business Finance, Property Finance, Asset and Working Capital Finance and Corporate Finance.

Henry's brother Joe started ASC Finance for Business in 1968 when he realised there was a need to raise funds for SMEs.

HM Prison Send

HMP Sends Education Department runs Key Skills courses and NVQs in Business Administration.

Komercijalna banka Skopje

Today Komercijalna Banka A.D. Skopje is a universal bank licensed for performing all types of banking operations, combining the functions of commercial banking, savings deposits and investments, as well as banking services provided to the citizens and enterprises in the domain of domestic and international payment operations.

Leafly

Leafly has mobile applications for iOS devices as well as a B2B iPad application for dispensaries.

Lifestyle business

Some types of enterprise are more accessible than others to the would-be lifestyle business person.

Lloyd Levitin

Professor Lloyd A. Levitin (born 1932) is an American businessman, former business executive, and currently professor of clinical finance and business economics at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

Mayflower Declaration

The document also contains a list of goals for the Christian Peoples Alliance in the policy areas of Education, Health, Welfare, Employment, Housing, International Policy, Economics, Defence, Business, the Environment, Crime, Transport, Regeneration, Discrimination, Culture and Sport, and Agriculture.

Michigan Journal of Business

The Michigan Journal of Business is a biannual peer-reviewed open access academic journal published by undergraduate students at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business (University of Michigan).

Monash University, Berwick campus

Monash University, Berwick Campus is a campus of Monash University located in Berwick, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. It offers degrees in Business and Commerce, Nursing and Education.

Nathusius Investments

Nathusius Investments Sp.z o.o. is a media investment company with a focus on diversified b2b publishing and event activities based in Warsaw, Poland.

Ouachita Hills College

As a tutorial center of Griggs University, it offers students several degrees in Biblical Studies, Theology, Business, Christian Media, and Education.

Rasmus Refer

Rasmus Refer (born January 18, 1970) is a Danish entrepreneur and business owner best known for founding the B2B search engine Masterseek.

Rozenburg

Beginning in the same period, most of the island was given to industrial enterprise, part of the Port of Rotterdam (Botlek and Europoort).

Schuyler F. Otteson

Schuyler Franklin Otteson was a past dean of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Searching for a Successor

They both hit the wall but Gladstone's side was padded and the hat turns out to be Scrooge McDuck's who thinks that it's time to choose a successor so he decides to give a Business both to Donald and Gladstone.

SM-sarja

However as ice hockey evolved in Finland some teams started to be handled like Businesses.

Sovereign Base Areas Customs

Not to set up or permit the establishment of civilian commercial or industrial enterprises except insofar as these are connected with military requirements, and not otherwise to impair the economic commercial or industrial unity and life of the Island.

Spreadmart

Typically a spreadmart is created by individuals at different times using different data sources and rules for defining metrics in an organization, creating a fractured view of the enterprise.

St. Peter's Boys Senior Secondary School

The academic side of the school popularly referred to as the 'Class Side', is the site of classroom blocks, science laboratories, a computer laboratory and the administration block.The classroom blocks houses the General Arts, Business and Science classes.

Steen Hildebrandt

Steen Hildebrandt emphazises the importance of the social and ethical profile of organizations and enterprises, and he has focused on the introduction of spirituality and religion into the field of modern professional management.

Syed Ahmed

He then attended the Hammersmith College, where he achieved a BTEC in Business and Finance.

Think: act

The original think: act magazine addresses decision makers in companies and is thus clearly focussed on B2B-relations.

Wandering WiFi

Wandering WiFi is a wireless internet service provider, providing wi-fi hotspots and related network management services and software to businesses in many industries including retail, hospitality, healthcare, enterprise, automotive, transportation, education, government and restaurants.

Wayne Lai

He is best known for his role in Journey to the West and its sequel, The Gentle Crackdown (co-star with Halina Tam), Off Pedder and Some Day (co-star with Teresa Mo), Rosy Business and No Regrets (co-star with Sheren Tang).

He has achieved much praise for his roles, especially in the TVB drama Rosy Business creating a big trend in Hong Kong in 2009.

West London College

Programmes are offered in the following subject areas: Business, Marketing, Finance, Accountancy, Computing, Fashion, Tourism and Hotel Management.

Westmount, London, Ontario

The top three occupations of Westmount residents are: Sales and Service occupations, Business & Finance, and Administration.

Wim Van Grembergen

Van Grembergen authored and co-authored many publications in the Business/IT alignment, Governance and Performance management.


Arcadia Group

Arcadia Group Ltd. is the largest business interest of retailing magnate Sir Philip Green, and is owned by his Monaco resident wife Tina to enable the company to avoid paying U.K. tax.

Aurora Village–Wells College Historic District

Its significant business entrepreneurs included men such as Henry Wells, founder of American Express and Wells Fargo, whose operations created new express mail and banking services that spanned New York state and reached to the developing state of California.

Brian Jean

Jean has a Bachelor of Science degree from Warner Pacific in Portland, Oregon, a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Bond University in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Bryan Wiedmeier

Bryan J. Wiedmeier is in his fourth season with the Cleveland Browns, having joined the organization as Executive Vice President-Business Operations on January 11, 2010.

Cal Nichols

He sold substantially all of Gasland's petroleum marketing business in 1996 to Husky Energy, but retained Gasland Properties Ltd., he has therefore shifted his focus to developing that company's various holdings.

CFBN

The station, owned by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, aired a business news format syndicated from Canada's Business Network, as well as some travel and weather information reports for Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Chaim Shemesh

In 2002 Shemesh joined the leading record company ‘NMC’ as a content VP, where he managed the company’s marketing and public relations and developed new business modules to the music industry (on-line music downloading web sites, artist management systems, etc.).

Chapin Hall

He moved to Pine Grove (now Russell), Warren County, Pennsylvania, about 1841 and engaged in the lumber business and mercantile pursuits.

Churchover

Within the parish boundaries is Coton House: A mansion house dating from 1787, now used as a business training school.

Cleveland Stokers

They sold the Stokers to a group led by Cleveland attorney Howard Metzenbaum and business partner, Alva "Ted" Bonda, the first week of January 1968.

DeMaurice Smith

Although Smith lacked football experience, his ties to presidential power and business experts helped give him an advantage over other potential candidates like Troy Vincent, Trace Armstrong, and sports attorney David Cornwell.

Demetrius Comino

After graduating with a first class honours degree in 1924, Comino served a three-year apprenticeship with British Thomson-Houston in Rugby before leaving to establish a printing business, Krisson Printing Ltd, near Oxford Circus in central London ("Krisson" being Greek for 'better').

Dumpy's Rusty Nuts

Despite the group's longevity, they became for a time a favourite target for mockery from the British music press, especially Melody Maker, where their name was often invoked as the epitome of failure in the music business in the humorous section "Talk Talk Talk" written by David Stubbs.

Edward Nicholas

In 1625 Nicholas became secretary to the admiralty; shortly afterwards he was appointed an extra clerk of the privy council with duties relating to admiralty business.

Elizabeth Ho

Ho first studied business at the University of Southern California, but left for a year and returned to enroll in the school's theater program, earning a Bachelor of Arts in theater.

Elliot Mazer

From 1989 to 2005 Mazer served as Senior Vice President of New Business Development for Radio Computing Services, Inc (RCS) in White Plains, New York.

Enterprise digital assistant

An enterprise digital assistant (EDA) is a handheld computer, born of the personal digital assistant popularity which was adapted for extensive, more robust usage within the SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) and Enterprise business applications as a data capture mobile device.

Gary Vandy

In the business over 40 years he co-founded Studio Center in 1973 with Steven Cuiffo, a 24 track automated recording, sweetening and digital mixing facility which produced such hits as "Do You Wanna Get Funky with Me" by Peter Brown and "Get Off" by Foxy and other major artists for TK Records and other record labels.

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

Guttman Community College

Guttman offers 2-year associate degree programs with majors in Business Administration, Human Services, Information Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Urban Studies.

J. Barry Griswell

He has been inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the United Way of Central Iowa Alexis de Tocqueville Society award, a 2004 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a 2004 recipient of the Central Iowa Philanthropic Award for Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser, and a 2006 recipient of the Business Committee for the Arts Leadership Award as well as a 2008 recipient of the American for the Arts Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award.

J. Howard Marshall

Throughout many of his endeavors, Marshall turned most of his business associations into friendships; including J.R. Parten, Fred Koch and his sons, Oscar Wyatt and E.O. Buck.

Leonis C. Malburg

As mayor, Malburg has been credited with overseeing the successful implementation of public policy that led the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation to name Vernon the "Most Business-friendly City" in L.A. County.

LIBT at Brunel University

LIBT students complete a one or two-year university transfer programme and, subject to meeting the required progression criteria, transfer into the second year of Brunel University’s three-year undergraduate BSc degree programmes in Business & Management, Information Systems & Computing and Economics & Finance.

Lion Brewing and Malting Company

Robert Cock, a "first settler" who accompanied Governor Hindmarsh on HMS Buffalo, and for whom Cox's Creek was named, has been reported as founder of the malting business.

Mallorca – Suche nach dem Paradies

The focus is put on the ruthless real estate agent Rolf Stein (Klaus Zmorek), who's business activities aren't always legal.

Marcel Desoutter

41 of this type and the improved Desoutter II were produced, but the business folded in 1932 after its main customer, National Flying Services at London Air Park, Hanworth, went into liquidation.

Milton Moore Snodgrass

Currently Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Mirae Asset Group

Park earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Korea University and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2002.

Mohsen al-Sukkari

Mohsen al-Sukkari, is an Egyptian former police officer who, on 28 July 2008 murdered the well-known Lebanese artist Suzanne Tamim in Dubai, UAE on orders of Egyptian business tycoon and member of the Egyptian Parliament Hisham Talaat Moustafa in return for $2 million paid by Moustafa, according to statements made by the murderer to the investigators in Cairo.

Nadine Ramkisson

During this time, she interviewed many of show business' hottest stars, such as Wyclef Jean, Destiny's Child, Shaggy, Usher, Denzel Washington and many more actors, singers and athletes, often receiving very positive feedback from them.

Old Scona Academic High School

Numerous student-run clubs are available at Old Scona Academic, such as Multicultural Club, Speech & Debate Club, Go Club, Business/Finance Club, Hip Hop Club, Bollywood club, Reading Buddies, and Discussion Club.

Omkar Goswami

He has held the position of Chief Economist with the Indian business association Confederation of Indian Industry from August 1998 up to March 2004,.

Panorama Developments Ltd v Fidelis Furnishing Fabrics Ltd

Bayne used the Fidelis' paper and represented that he wished to hire a number of Rolls-Royce's and Jaguars for the business while his managing director was away.

Pierre Daura

From 1925 to 1927, Daura and Gustavo Cochet, an Argentine artist, designed and made batik material for couturiers, until fire destroyed their studio and business.

Pooler, Georgia

Godley Station, the center for business development, has been successful in attracting large companies such as JCB to the area.

Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences

Degree programme in International Business (BBA), Master's Degree programme in International Business Management (MBA) and Degree programme in Nursing (RN).

Silliman University College of Business Administration

The Silliman University College of Business Administration is one of the constituent colleges of Silliman University, a private research university found in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

Symyx Technologies

In 2008, Symyx sold non-RTECS portions of the occupational health and safety (OHS) component of the MDL business to ChemAdvisor, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

TallyGenicom

Tally AG was founded in 1948 by Philip Renshaw, focusing on design, development, manufacturing, distribution and servicing of printers for high-volume industrial and business applications.

The Big Give

Donations from the public were doubled by a number of sponsors, including Arts & Business, Reed Specialist Recruitment, Reed Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Candis Magazine and Ethiopiaid.

TTK Group

The TTK Group is an Indian business conglomerate with a presence across several segments of industry including consumer durables, pharmaceuticals and supplements, bio-medical devices, maps and atlases, consular visa services, virtual assistant services and health care services.

Village Diner

Manufacturers offered prefabricated models with lessons in management, giving entrepreneurs the chance to get into the restaurant business with less capital than it usually took.

Vivartia

Vivartia is the result of the merger of Delta Holding S.A., which included Delta Dairy Products, Goody's, Flocafé and Mechelany foods as well as a dozen other major Greek food and beverages related corporations of the nutritions field, with the snack and bakery business lines of Chipita.

William Coe

William Robertson Coe (1869–1955), English-born American insurance and railways business executive and philanthropist

Willmott Dixon

Major projects include Woolwich Central, the largest ever development by Tesco's in-house development business Spenhill, comprising an 80,000 sq ft supermarket and 259 homes over 17 storeys.

World Business

World Business was a weekly half hour features programme on CNBC presented by Raya Abirached.

World Football Insider

It was launched by Around the Rings, the number-one publication in the world covering the business and politics of the Olympic Movement, in June 2009.

Xanadu Houses

Masters's business partner Tom Gussel chose the name "Xanadu" for the homes, a reference to Xanadu, the summer capital of Yuan, which is prominently featured in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan.