It is privately owned by the families of Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel through Alticor which is the holding company for businesses including Amway, Amway Global, Fulton Innovation, Amway Hotel Corporation, Gurwitch Products, Hatteras Yachts and manufacturing and logistics company Access Business Group.

Home Delivery Network Limited ( HDNL ) is the Group's logistics arm, the result of the merger between Business Express and Reality, the former Littlewoods and Shop Direct delivery companies respectively.

From there one can pay professional advisors to set up IBCs ( International Business Corporations, or corporations with anonymous ownership ) or similar structures in OFCs ( Offshore Financial Centers ).

Business value can be returned as quickly as the first data marts can be created, and the method gives itself well to an exploratory and iterative approach to building data warehouses.

In the book " Golden Rules of Business Success " written by Fan Li ( or Tao Zhu Gong ) during the Spring and Autumn Period, there are some parts mentioning the art of beekeeping and the importance of the quality of the wooden box for bee keeping that can affect the quality of its honey.

Business insurance can take a number of different forms, such as the various kinds of professional liability insurance, also called professional indemnity ( PI ), which are discussed below under that name ; and the business owner's policy ( BOP ), which packages into one policy many of the kinds of coverage that a business owner needs, in a way analogous to how homeowners ' insurance packages the coverages that a homeowner needs.

Business cycles can cause short-term drops in output called recessions.

Columbia Business School students can combine an MBA with one of ten other professional degrees.

; Contingency Fee Based Audit: Business Process Outsourcing BPO, telecom consultant companies can provide a contingency fee based independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the compliance of telecom service providers with telecommunication contracts and State and Federal Tariffs.

The Book of Business can be an Excel spreadsheet compiled manually, that details every single line item charge associated with all corporate telecom, network and wireless payables, or it can be constructed by Electronic Data Interchange ( EDI ) feeds using TEM ( Telecom Expense Management ) software.

* Reconcile the Book of Business, Telecom Contracts and the State and Federal Tariffs to identify any areas that can help lower a company's communications budget.

They can also be known by such names as College of Business, College of Business Administration, School of Business, or School of Business Administration.

Each year, well-known business publications such as Business Week, The Economist, U. S. News & World Report, Fortune, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal publish rankings of selected MBA programs that, while controversial in their methodology, nevertheless can directly influence the prestige of schools that achieve high scores.

Business etiquette can vary significantly in different countries, which is invariably related to their culture.

A Dominica-based International Business Company ( IBC ) can, for instance, be formed over the Internet, and the government has also granted operating licenses to several Internet gambling companies.

This can be found under " ISM Reports On Business " on the ISM home page.

Blackboard can be used for K-12 education, Higher Education, Business, and Government collaboration.

More recently a market driven global standard, XBRL ( Extensible Business Reporting Language ), which can be used for creating financial statements in a structured and computer readable format, has become more popular as a format for creating financial statements.

Starting January 10, 2008, eBay said sellers can only accept PayPal as payment for the categories " Computing > Software ", " Consumer Electronics > MP3 Players ", " Wholesale & Job Lots > Mobile & Home Phones ", and " Business, Office & Industrial > Industrial Supply / MRO ".

By the mid-1900s, Marlin had a bottling company, stock pens, a brickyard, a turkey-processing plant, ( building can still be seen on Williams Street / South Business Highway 6 ) a saddlery, a water crystallization plant, and a pottery plant.

Research by Dr Mark Batey of the Psychometrics at Work Research Group at Manchester Business School has suggested that the creative profile can be explained by four primary creativity traits with narrow facets within each

That's why the FDA, the American Medical Association ( AMA ), and the National Better Business Bureau ( BBB ) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $610 million or so paid to medical charlatans annually.

* The Certification of Competency in Business AnalysisTM ( CCBA ®) designation is a professional certification for business analysis practitioners who want to be recognized for their expertise and skills by earning formal recognition.

movement was fueled by a sense that many participants in the early punk rock scene were, in the words of The Business guitarist Steve Kent, " trendy university people using long words, trying to be artistic ... and losing touch ".

scene was partly a response to a sense that many participants in the early punk scene were, in the words of The Business guitarist Steve Kent, " trendy university people using long words, trying to be artistic ... and losing touch ".

Three months later, it sold Cray's Business Systems Division, responsible for the CS6400 SPARC / Solaris server, to Sun Microsystems for an undisclosed amount ( widely believed to be $ 50 million ).

Section Five deals with procedure, providing that " Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business ," although a small number may adjourn and compel the attendance of absent members.

The Aytoun campus will be closed during 2012 when the new Business School opens on the All Saints Campus.

Business plans may be internally or externally focused.

Business plans that identify and target internal goals, but provide only general guidance on how they will be met are called strategic plans.

Business supporters, determined to defeat the Democratic-populist William Jennings Bryan, were more than happy to give, and Hanna actually refunded or turned down what he considered to be " excessive " contributions that exceeded a business's assessment.

In 1984 the British Virgin Islands, trying to recapture some of the lost offshore business, enacted a new form of companies legislation, the International Business Companies Act, under which an offshore company which was exempt from local taxes could be formed.

# In North America a business school is often understood to be a university graduate school which offers a Master of Business Administration or equivalent degree.

" Chico's own piano composition " I'm Daffy Over You " would be played again in their next feature film, Monkey Business, by Harpo on the harp.

Business partners had no control over research or the disposition of its results, but they were well-situated to be early adopters of any benefits of the research.

At the 1961 Governor's Conference on Business, Industry, Education and Agriculture in Columbia, S. C., he declared, " Today, in our complex society, education is the cornerstone upon which economic development must be built -- and prosperity assured.

Business schools or MBA programs may be accredited by external bodies which provide students and employers with an independent view of their quality, and indicate that the school's educational curriculum meets specific quality standards.

Business cards are to be handed out formally following this procedure: Hand card with writing facing upwards ; bow when giving and receiving the card ; grasp it with both hands ; read it carefully ; and put it in a prominent place.

After his 1999 inauguration, Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown continued his predecessor Elihu Harris ' public policy of supporting downtown housing development in the area defined as the Central Business District in Oakland's 1998 General Plan.

Business intelligence ( BI ) is defined as the ability for an organization to take all its capabilities and convert them into knowledge.

# Business Modeling: The information flow among business functions is defined by answering questions like what information drives the business process, what information is generated, who generates it, where does the information go, who process it and so on.

* Business improvement area, a defined area within which businesses pay an additional tax or fee in order to fund improvements within the area

It is defined as low-density, geographically spread-out patterns of employment, where the majority of jobs in a given metropolitan area are located outside of the main city's Central Business District ( CBD ), and increasingly in the suburban periphery.

Business agility requires SOA services to be controlled by the business goals and directives as defined in the business Motivation Model ( BMM ).

Business Portal: A web-based information dissemination system where access is defined by user roles.

Electronic Document Delivery ( for Business Portal ): enables scheduled e-mail delivery, according to defined rules, of electronic documents, such as Invoices, Credit Notes, Debit Notes, Finance Charges and Returns in various formats.

Although a work holiday is given to employees of the federal and many municipal governments, the Government of Ontario has not defined this day as a statutory holiday and it is not mentioned in either Ontario's Employment Standards Act or Retail Business Holidays Act.

Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR has been defined by Lord Holme and Richard Watts in The World Business Council for Sustainable Development ’ s publication ‘ Making Good Business Sense ’ as “… the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as the local community and society at large ".

All South African newspapers of the 1980s were aimed at racially defined markets, either black ( Sowetan ) or white ( Business Day ).

Business taxable income in most states is defined, at least in part, by reference to Federal taxable income.

Part 1 of the Act places a legal obligation upon emergency services and local authorities ( defined as " Category 1 responders " under the Act ) to assess the risk of, plan, and exercise for emergencies, as well as undertaking Business continuity Management.

To create an architecture that employs a business rules engine it is essential to establish the integration between a BPM ( Business Process Management ) and a BRM ( Business Rules Management ) platform that is based upon processes responding to events or examining business judgments that are defined by business rules.

In Singapore, the Central Area or Central Business District ( CBD ) contains the core financial and commercial districts, including eleven urban planning areas, namely Downtown Core, Marina East, Marina South, Museum, Newton, Orchard, Outram, River Valley, Rochor, Singapore River and Straits View as defined by the Urban Redevelopment Authority ( URA ).

" problem of Original Accumulation presented itself first to those authors, chiefly to Marx and the Marxists, who held an exploitation theory of interest and had, therefore, to face the question of how exploiters secured control of an initial stock of ' capital ' ( however defined ) with which to exploit – a question which that theory per se is incapable of answering, and which may obviously be answered in a manner highly uncongenial to the idea of exploitation " ( Joseph Schumpeter, Business Cycles, Vol.