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Ethanol is Rapidly Becoming One of the World's Biggest Eaters
When it's all piled together into heaping, rolling mountains by grain elevators, corn begins to create its own landscape: simultaneously yellow and orange, gathering in folds like sand dunes and about as numerous in its grains. Such mountains are impressive, and so is the U.S. farming industry...
Tags: Food, Biofuel, Industry, Corn, Ethanol, Guardian, Food & Beverage, Strategy, Automotive, Manufacturing, Management, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2010-01-25
U.S. Retail Industry Sales Seen Up 2.5 Percent For 2010
By Nicole MaestriSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales should rise 2.5 percent this year, signaling that store chains have made it through the worst of the downturn as improvements in the housing and job markets bolster shoppers' confidence, a trade group forecast on Tuesday.The 2010 forecast from the National...
Tags: Retail Company, Industry, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Costco Wholesale Corp., TJX Companies Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
News items 2010-01-25
Avoiding the Guesswork with a Build to Order Business
While the retail industry is stocking up for the holiday rush and the fashion industry is busy making predictions for next year?s trends, Rickshaw Bags isn?t concerned with either. That?s because they make their bags to order ? a zero inventory model that sets Rickshaw apart from its competitors.
Tags: Industry, Strategy, Management, SMB, Richshaw Bagworks
Videos 2009-11-23
Polaris Industries Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Okay. Your first question comes from the line of James Hardiman with FTN Equity Capital. James Hardiman - FTN Equity Capital Congrats on a great quarter, a great year, and we certainly appreciate all the disclosure. A couple of questions for you, on...
Tags: Industry, Polaris Industries Inc., Call Transcript, Earnings, Strategy, Management, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2010-01-28
USG Corp. F4Q09 Earnings Conference Call
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator Instructions Our first question comes from Dan Oppenheim from Credit Suisse. Please go ahead. Dan Oppenheim - Credit Suisse Thanks very much. I was wondering if you could talk briefly, talk about what you've done on the operational side and reducing the...
Tags: USG Corp., Industry, Earnings, Strategy, Management, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2010-01-27
Kelly Services, Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Our first question today comes from Toby Sommer representing SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Toby Sommer - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey I have a question for you about gross margins. In the quarter, were any of the restructurings, would they be captured in that, is there any charges?...
Tags: Compensation, Industry, Margin, Call Transcript, Earnings, Worker, Kelly Services Inc., Strategy, Benefits And Compensation, Management, Human Resources, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2010-02-05
Retail Jobs Exist Despite Recession: Q&A With ShopTheJobs.com
Two recruiting veterans launch a new job-placement firm and share with BNET Retail their outlooks on the industry's job picture. by Ian Ritter
Tags: Talent, Hiring, Job, Recession, Industry, Leasing, RR, BS, Deals, Capital Structures, Recruitment & Staffing, Workforce Management, Real Estate, Strategy, Finance, Business Operations, Management, Ian Ritter
Blog posts 2010-01-27
Obama's State of the Union: The Energy Industry's Policy, Investment Barometer for 2010
President Obama's State of the Union is just hours away, which can only mean one thing: lots of last minute pleas and suggestions as to what he should include and keep out of his address to the American people. Top on the list for energy industry folk is climate-change legislation,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Industry, Natural Gas, Obama, State of the Union speech, ExxonMobil, Anadarko, T. Boone Pickens, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2010-01-27
Shock of the Year: Plastics Industry Fumes at Audi's Eco Cops Super Bowl Ad
How's this for obvious reaction of the year: the plastics industry is unhappy with a new ad that takes aim at single-use plastics products while promoting Audi's clean diesel car. German automaker Audi AG, which aired its Green Police ad during the Super Bowl on Sunday, ruffled...
Tags: Advertisement, Industry, Audi AG, Plastics, Automotive, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2010-02-08
Mortgage Industry Group Short Sales Own Headquarters
The Mortgage Bankers Association is the trade association for the lending industry: they put out weekly stats about mortgage application volume and refis, advocate fair lending, and lobby for their members, a group that includes law firms, tech companies like IBM, and, of course, mortgage bankers and brokers. ...
Tags: MBA, Industry, Sales, Mortgage Bankers Association, Real Estate, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Alison Rogers
Blog posts 2010-02-08
January Tech Job Cut Announcements Take a Rebound
January job cuts were up sharply from December, largely due to Verizon's announcement of new layoffs. by Erik Sherman
Tags: Job, Layoff, Industry, Telephony, Labor Relations, Sales Strategy, Recruitment & Staffing, Workforce Management, Human Capital Management, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Human Resources, Sales, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2010-02-03
Biodiesel Industry's Future (and Tax Credit) Tied to Senate Jobs Bill
U.S. biodiesel producers are relying on the very folks - that would be Congress -- who added to their financial woes at the close of 2009. Not exactly the spot a struggling industry wants to be in. Their future -- or demise -- hinges on the restoration...
Tags: Job, Tax Credit, Industry, Biodiesel, U.S. Senate, Biodiesel Industry, Grassley, Taxes, Personal Finance, Telecom & Utilities, Automotive, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Kirsten Korosec
Blog posts 2010-02-09
Solar Power is Better for Heat than Electricity, says GlassPoint
Here's the thing about the sun: when you walk outside, you tend to feel warmth, not a shock of electricity. It just happens that the modern world runs on electricity, so the solar industry has long been focused on figuring out how to convert the sun's heat into electrical current....
Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, Industry, Natural Gas, Telecom & Utilities, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2010-02-04
Strong $A Worries Tourism Operators
The strong Aussie dollar remains a cloud on the horizon for Australia's tourism operators.New research by the Tourism and Transport Forum TTF has found the industry sees better times ahead, staying optimistic for the fourth straight quarter, but any pick-up is expected to be slow.The outlooks for domestic, international...
Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Industry, Survey, Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Management, AAP
News items 2010-02-05
Aussie Tourism Weathers Global Downturn
Australia's tourism industry has weathered the global financial downturn of 2009 better than expected, with new data showing international visitors only slightly down.Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS data out on Monday showed just 1700 fewer international tourists visited Australia in 2009 compared to 2008, defying an estimated worldwide drop...
Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Financial, Australia, Industry, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Strategy, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Management, Finance, AAP
News items 2010-02-08
Week in Renewables: IPCC Trouble, Tesla IPO, Fuel Breakthroughs
Transparency became a pressing issue for climate change campaigners over the past week, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC was hounded by critics of its reports. It emerged that a claim in the organization's 2007 report that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 was...
Tags: Electric Car, Industry, Climate Change, IPCC, NYT, Venture Capital, Investment, Strategy, Automotive, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2010-01-31
AirTran Holdings Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Bill Greene - Morgan Stanley. Bill Greene - Morgan Stanley I’m wondering if we could just talk a bitter more about the capacity plans. If I look at the RASM commentary that you made perhaps it’s...
Tags: AirTran Holdings Inc., Industry, Call Transcript, Earnings, Morgan Stanley, Strategy, Management, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2010-01-27
Week in Renewables: Risky IPOs, Solar Gasoline and the Nuclear Renaissance
Will electric car companies, as the Economist suggusts, repeat the beginning of the internet era, in which Netscape triumphantly held a massive IPO? Tesla Motors' upcoming IPO, along with the rise of cleantech as an alternative to the traditional world of energy, suggests parallels. But if the...
Tags: U.S., China, Electric Car, Industry, Clean Technology, Tesla Motors, L.A. Times, IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Automotive, Financial Services, Finance, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2010-02-08
Archer Daniels Midland Company F2Q10 (Qtr End 12/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions And our first question comes from the line of Robert Moskow from Credit Suisse. Robert, you may proceed. Robert Moskow - Credit Suisse Hi, thank you. Very strong quarter, congratulations. Steve Mills Hi, Rob. Thank you. Robert Moskow - Credit Suisse I had a question...
Tags: Archer Daniels Midland Co., Industry, Call Transcript, Earnings, Pricing Strategy, Credit Suisse Group AG, Pricing, Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2010-02-02
US Airways Group, Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Jamie Baker – JPMorgan. Jamie Baker – JPMorgan A common question this season, I asked it of Air Tran and it just came up on the Alaska call, US Airways charges for bags. Southwest doesn’t...
Tags: Capacity, Industry, Call Transcript, Earnings, US Airways Group Inc., Southwest, Strategy, Pricing, Management, Marketing, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2010-01-28
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