Italy has a smaller number of global multinational corporations than other economies of comparable size, but there is a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, as in the Northern " industrial triangle " ( Milan-Turin-Genoa ), where there is an area of intense industrial and machinery production, notably in their several industrial districts, which are the backbone of the Italian industry.

Zug is a low tax region, and is headquarters for a number of multinational enterprises.

The list of Trotskyist internationals shows that there are a large number of other multinational tendencies that stand in the tradition of Leon Trotsky.

The manufacture of cosmetics is currently dominated by a small number of multinational corporations that originated in the early 20th century, but the distribution and sale of cosmetics is spread among a wide range of different businesses.

Novartis International AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number two in sales ( 46. 806 billion US $) among the world-wide industry in 2010.

Whilst the British Army has the capability there is no standing UK Corps organisation, forces being allocated through a number of multi-partite arrangements to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) and European commitments, providing much of the headquarters capability and framework for the multinational Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.

However, the market for SSL certificates, a kind of certificate used for website security, is largely held by a small number of multinational companies.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies.

( g ) a Canadian ownership levy to assist in financing the acquisition of the Canadian operations of one or more multinational oil companies, with the objective of achieving at least 50 per cent Canadian ownership of oil and gas production by 1990, Canadian control of a significant number of the major oil and gas corporations, and an early increase in the share of the oil and gas sector owned by the Government of Canada.

The city is home to a large number of local and international banking offices, law firms, multinational companies and consumer services.

NTU has established industrial links with a number of national and multinational companies including Microsoft, Toyota, Boots, Experian and Rolls Royce

The former comprises a number of national chains, often owned by international conglomerates, like Thomson Holidays, now a subsidiary of TUI AG, the German multinational.

This was the first instance of Militant's demand for the nationalisation of usually a specific number of multinational companies, which were said to control 80 percent or more of the economy, under workers ' control and management, and the establishment of a socialist plan of production.

This has served to attract a large number of multinational companies.

In the 1990s he worked with artist David Torn and a number of Japanese musicians, and formed the multinational New Wave band, NiNa.

One hundred seventy-eight of the attacks were bombings against a multinational oil pipeline in Colombia — constituting 51 % of the year ’ s total number of attacks.

The main reason for the increase was an upsurge in the number of bombings of a multinational oil pipeline in Colombia by two terrorist groups there.

A number of multinational retailers have established themselves in Midleton including Tesco, Lidl, McDonalds, Boots, Aldi, Gamestop and Subway.

As well as continuing to develop the SEED projects, Franks has worked as a communications consultant for a number of multinational corporations in recent years, working on their female employee development programmes, and advising on market positioning strategies-particularly for female consumers.

The majority of businesses are in the small and medium enterprise bracket, but a number of international companies are established in Lenzburg, such as the multinational ABB and the meat processing plant Traitafina.

Palmela is home to many multinational industrial plants like Volkswagen or Coca-Cola, and a significant number of foreign families live in the area.

SCIP supports a number of different modes, including national and multinational modes which employ different cryptography.

After a number of successful albums, and just as his Afro-Cuban band had attained a remarkable following, most of its members left it to form Tipica 73, a multinational salsa conglomerate.

As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.

Initially, there were 25 franchises, but the number of different operating companies is smaller as some firms, including First Group, National Express Group and Stagecoach Group, run more than one franchise.

Economies of scale is a practical concept that may explain real world phenomena such as patterns of international trade or the number of firms in a market.

A number of business ideas, such as soap making, wholefood retailing, aquarium maintenance, and hotel operation have been identified as suitable for adoption by social firms employing disabled and disadvantaged people.

A major change in the structure of Zambia's economy came with the Mulungushi Reforms of April 1968: Kaunda declared his intention to acquire an equity holding ( usually 51 % or more ) in a number of key foreign-owned firms, to be controlled by his Industrial Development Corporation ( INDECO ).

:* Non-increasing returns to scale-The lack of increasing returns to scale ( or economies of scale ) ensures that there will always be a sufficient number of firms in the industry.

Hence, if firms are to produce at a level that equates marginal cost and marginal revenue, the model of perfect competition must include at least an infinite number of firms, each producing an output quantity of zero.

Agro-processing involved a large number of small, inefficient, and often family-run firms as well as a small number of large, efficient, and usually foreign-owned firms.

The 19 buildings include the offices of Daimler-Benz themselves ( actually their subsidiary debis, whose 21-storey main tower rises to 106 metres and is the tallest building in the new Potsdamer Platz development ), also offices of the major British professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berliner Volksbank ( Germany's largest cooperative bank ), and the remarkable 25-storey, 103-metre-high Potsdamer Platz No. 1, known as the Kollhoff Tower by architect Hans Kollhoff, home to a number of prestigious law firms.

To ensure a reliable supply of parts, he organized a number of subsidiary firms like the National Coil Company, the Michigan Screw Company, and the Atlas Drop Forge Company.

The result was an increase in inventories and severe cutbacks in production at a number of electronics, automobile, and textile manufacturers, as well as at the smaller firms that supplied the parts.

Smalltalk-80 was the first language variant made available outside of PARC, first as Smalltalk-80 Version 1, given to a small number of firms ( Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Tektronix, and DEC ) and universities ( UC Berkeley ) for " peer review " and implementation on their platforms.

In this context, two things are assumed constant by definition of the short run: the availability of one or more fixed inputs ( typically physical capital ), and the number of firms in the industry.

Recent research cautions that localization is not always advantageous for firms operating in the region, and its effectiveness depends on a number of contingent factors.

A major switch in the structure of Zambia's economy came with the Mulungushi Reforms of April 1968: the government declared its intention to acquire equity holdings ( usually 51 % or more ) in a number of key foreign-owned firms, to be controlled by a parastatal conglomerate named the Industrial Development Corporation ( INDECO ).

* British Invasion, which saw a number of 2000 AD artists and writers working for the big American firms during the 1980s.

The fewer the number of firms in the industry, the easier for the members of the cartel to monitor the behaviour of other members.

Given that detecting a price cut becomes harder as the number of firms increases, the bigger are the gains from price cutting.

The greater the number of firms, the more probable it is that one of those firms is a maverick firm ; that is, a firm known for pursuing aggressive and independent pricing strategy.