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Driving Sustainable Growth at an Inflection Point

Brimstone Consulting

After a decade of growing organic herbs and vegetables and raising farm animals, a family-run New England farm decided to pivot and produce high-end functional CBD products. This pivot required the organization to change its business model from wholesale agricultural commodities to the production and retail of consumer goods.

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Asset Management – Valuation (Part 2 of 4)

Tom Spencer

There are a couple of reasons for this: Asset managers can see cash flow and earnings fluctuate wildly with markets. For alternative asset managers such as hedge funds, their cash flows may be cut by more than half as profits fall and they collect a smaller fee from their profit participation agreements.

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Starting A New Company? Do You Need Help? It Is Available

Business Consulting Agency

Retail/E-Commerce. Product Development. Capital/Financing. Cash Flow Management. Business consulting topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following are as follows: Business Consulting Topics. Corporate Filing. Sales/Marketing. Employee relations/Human Resources. Vendor Relations. Labor Unions.

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Housing Starts in China Plunge 25%; Did China's Property Bubble Finally Burst?

MishTalk

Economic data released on Tuesday also included a deceleration in industrial production, with growth in steel and cement output slowing to a crawl. Retail sales also grew more slowly than expected in April, and the furniture market stalled as fewer families moved into new homes. Did China''s Property Bubble Finally Burst?

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3 Things Driving Entrepreneurial Growth in Africa

Harvard Business

Even a star company like Nigeria’s online retailer Jumia ( known by some as the potential “African Amazon” ) is struggling to return profits to early investor Rocket Internet, of Germany. Factors of Production. Today his Nice Rice Mill processes 70% of the region’s rice production. Why the downbeat mood?

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better. Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end.

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