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Driving Sustainable Growth at an Inflection Point

Brimstone Consulting

This pivot required the organization to change its business model from wholesale agricultural commodities to the production and retail of consumer goods. While the organization had strong core values and a revitalized product, its retail strategy and brand were underdeveloped.

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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. Capital/Financing. Cash Flow Management. The following is an example of business topics consultants assist clients with. Business consulting topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following are as follows: Business Consulting Topics. Corporate Filing. Sales/Marketing. Vendor Relations.

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

MishTalk

Retail sales also grew more slowly than expected in April, and the furniture market stalled as fewer families moved into new homes. The unregulated shadow banking sector has played a strong role in the recent credit boom, with the share of credit growth financed by the sector rising from 11 percent in 2006 to 32 percent in 2013.

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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. Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet.

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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. Why the downbeat mood? Toyota and Yamaha have found motorbike customers through such social group structures.

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How to Become a Successful Freelancer

Harvard Business

“It takes time to get a consistent cash flow going. Find an accountant who can help you set up your finances and make tax filing easier. I wanted to focus solely on retail and consumer goods — the industry where I had the greatest experience — and I couldn’t always do that,” she says.

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