Cotton processing equipment is a sizable segment of Dallas business economy.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

In addition, the merging of the stagnant Compaq computer assembly business with HP's lucrative printing and imaging division was criticized for obstructing the profitability of the printing / imaging segment.

After the succession, the INMARSAT space segment and operational business were transferred to Inmarsat Ltd., a UK company, with the IMSO overseeing the public services obligations of the company pursuant to an agreement concluded between IMSO and Inmarsat Ltd. An agreement between the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) and the IMSO was signed in Montreal on 20 September 2000 and addresses the relationship between ICAO and IMSO.

Institutional Securities has been the most profitable business segment for Morgan Stanley in recent times.

* 25px25px Business U. S. Route 40 ( Uniontown )- bypassed by a freeway through the more suburbanized areas of the small city, the original routing of US 40 has been turned into this downtown connector ; from its western expressway terminus, the route runs as a narrow four-lane street toward the business district, at which its eastbound and westbound lanes split to become East Fayette St and East Main St respectively ; the road then continues with a two-lane segment through hilly but populated South Union Township, before ending as US 40's freeway stretch transitions to a mountain climb

Although they share the same name and corporate headquarters, many of the same executives and other employees, and responsibility for liabilities arising out of activities in the industrial chemical business, the agricultural chemicals business is the only segment carried forward from the pre-1997 Monsanto Company to the current Monsanto Company.

" Another segment of the population would like to see less government and less restrictions on growth and development for the growth of business and the economy.

The leisure industry is the segment of business focused on entertainment, recreation, and tourism related products and services.

According to the same study, most of the visitors who come from the USA to the city go on business matters, whilst Chinese and Japanese tourists mainly take up the leisure segment.

" When using this definition, business intelligence also includes technologies such as data integration, data quality, data warehousing, master data management, text and content analytics, and many others that the market sometimes lumps into the Information Management segment.

She also starred in the final segment of the anthology film If I Had a Million ( 1932 ) as a rest home resident who gets a new lease on life when she is given a $ 1, 000, 000 check by a dying business tycoon.

An MFP ( Multi Function Product / Printer / Peripheral ), multifunctional, all-in-one ( AIO ), or Multifunction Device ( MFD ), is an office machine which incorporates the functionality of multiple devices in one, so as to have a smaller footprint in a home or small business setting ( the SOHO market segment ), or to provide centralized document management / distribution / production in a large-office setting.

Halliburton's major business segment is the Energy Services Group ( ESG ).

In the same year, the divisions Mobile ( small and medium-sized customers ), and Alert Services ( electronic surveillance of homes and businesses ) were created ( as of 2007 constituting the business segment Mobile and Monitoring ).

" These operations are reported as part of the North American business segment.

It was the longstanding view of a segment of the UFA that the Alberta government should enter the banking business directly by obtaining a bank charter from the federal government ( which has responsibility for banking under the Canadian constitution ).

Whilst customers have actively dealt with a business within a particular recent period that depends from the product sold, not-customers are either past customers who are no longer customers or potential customers who choose to do business with the competition, and non-customers are people who are active in a different market segment entirely.

The Repair, Replacement and Automation Services ( RRAS ) business segment moved to Cranberry Township earlier than other business segments to help alleviate space issues at the headquarters in Monroeville.

Customer segments are often selected as targets because they score highly on two dimensions: 1 ) The segment is attractive to serve because it is large, growing, makes frequent purchases, is not price sensitive ( i. e. is willing to pay high prices ), or other factors ; and 2 ) The company has the resources and capabilities to compete for the segment's business, can meet their needs better than the competition, and can do so profitably.

The implication of selecting target segments is that the business will subsequently allocate more resources to acquire and retain customers in the target segment ( s ) than it will for other, non-targeted customers.

The Office of Business Economics ( OBE ) of the U.S. Department of Commerce provides basic measures of the national economy and current analysis of short-run changes in the economic situation and business outlook.

The Small Business Administration ( SBA ) provides guidance and advice on sources of technical information relating to small business management and research and development of products.

This system provides long- and short-term credit to farmers and their cooperative marketing, purchasing, and business service organizations.

* Application service provider, a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network

Accounting that provides information to people outside the business entity is called financial accounting and provides information to present and potential shareholders, creditors such as banks or vendors, financial analysts, economists, and government agencies.

It provides investment products and services and attracts the majority of the corporate business deals in The Bahamas, most recently acting as financial advisor and placement agent for the largest Initial Public Offering ( IPO ) ever in The Bahamas with the IPO of Commonwealth Brewery, a Heineken subsidiary.

It provides knowledge and skills to interpret and use statistical techniques in a variety of business applications.

The specter of having such laws suddenly brought down upon a business provides incentive to stay in the good graces of political officials.

For example, a calendar provides a way to determine which days are religious or civil holidays, which days mark the beginning and end of business accounting periods, and which days have legal significance, such as the day taxes are due or a contract expires.

CRM software provides a business with the ability to create, assign and manage requests made by customers.

In the Inmon vision, the data warehouse is at the center of the " Corporate Information Factory " ( CIF ), which provides a logical framework for delivering business intelligence ( BI ) and business management capabilities.

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative ( DCMI ) incorporated as an independent entity, separating from OCLC, in 2008 that provides an open forum for the development of interoperable online metadata standards for a broad range of purposes and of business models.

Combined with Decree No. 91-337, it regulates disclosure, although the decree also applies to any person who provides to another person a corporate name, trademark or trade name or other business arrangements.

The CISA Review Manual 2006 provides the following definition of risk management: " Risk management is the process of identifying vulnerabilities and threats to the information resources used by an organization in achieving business objectives, and deciding what countermeasures, if any, to take in reducing risk to an acceptable level, based on the value of the information resource to the organization.

* Expatriate insurance provides individuals and organizations operating outside of their home country with protection for automobiles, property, health, liability and business pursuits.

Mauritius provides an environment for banks, insurance and reinsurance companies, captive insurance managers, trading companies, ship owners or managers, fund managers and professionals to conduct their international business.

The BMM is a metamodel that provides a vocabulary for corporate governance and strategic planning and is particularly relevant to businesses undertaking governance, regulatory compliance, business transformation and strategic planning activities.

Libertarian economist Peter T. Leeson attributes this increased economic activity to the Somali customary law ( referred to as Xeer ), which he suggests provides a stable environment to conduct business in.

Some even use the term to refer to capitalist economies such that the state provides substantial public services and regulation of business activity.

* Provides information to, or testifies before, any public body conducting an investigation, hearing or inquiry into any violation of law, or a rule or regulation issued under the law by the employer or another employer, with whom there is a business relationship, or, in the case of an employee who is a licensed or certified health care professional, provides information to, or testifies before, any public body conducting an investigation, hearing or inquiry into quality of patient care ; or

In addition to its investment activities the IFC provides a range of advisory services to support corporate decisionmaking regarding business, environment, social impact, and sustainability.

* Strategy, including: Funding sources ( individuals, corporations, foundations, donors / governments, endowments, sales / events ) and business model ( independent research, contract work, advocacy ); The balance between research, consultancy, and advocacy ; The source of their arguments: Ideology, values or interests ; applied, empirical or synthesis research ; or theoretical or academic research ( Stephen Yeo ); The manner in which the research agenda is developed — by senior members of the think tank or by individual researchers, or by the think tank of their funders ; Their influencing approaches and tactics ( many researchers but an interesting one comes from Abelson ) and the time horizon for their strategies: long term and short term mobilisation ; Their various audiences of the think tanks ( audiences as consumers and public-this merits another blog ; soon ) ( again, many authors, but Zufeng provides a good framework for China ); and Affiliation, which refers to the issue of independence ( or autonomy ) but also includes think tanks with formal and informal links to political parties, interest groups and other political players.

A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the deceased and their families.