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McDonald's restaurant at a shopping mall in India-world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants.
(photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
McDonald's key sales figure bounces back in August
The Times Of India
| NEW YORK: McDonald's said a key sales figure climbed 3.7 per cent in August in the challenging global economy. | The world's biggest hamburger chain's strongest performance came from the region encompassing Asia, the Middle East and Africa, with revenue at stores open at least 13 months up 5.7 per...
Car, bike sales crash amidst fears of fuel price hike
(photo: WN / Geeta)
Car, bike sales crash amidst fears of fuel price hike, unchanged interest rates
The Times Of India
| Car sales fell for the first time in 10 months in August, and motorcycle sales dropped for the first time since January 2009. | NEW DELHI: Car sales fell for the first time in 10 months in August, and motorcycle sales dropped for the first time since January 2009, said an industry body, as custome...
Western art exhibition and sale coming up at Oklahoma City museum
The Oklahoman
BY CATHERINE PAGE-CREPPON | The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum will hold Cowboy Crossings, a major lineup of fine art exhibitions and sales, on Oct. 12-13. | Crystal Canyon Breeze by Oreland C. Joe Sr. Photo provided by National Cowboy...
Car Sales Allocation Chaotic
All Africa
[The Herald]Harare City Council's allocation of car sales premises is chaotic as there is no formal process being followed. This was revealed yesterday by the investigating committee appointed by Local Government, Rural and Urban Development Minister...
Vasquez is wild again, and Sale pitches 6 shutout innings as White Sox sail past Twins 6-0
The Washington Post
| MINNEAPOLIS — Esmerling Vasquez’s audition for the Minnesota rotation has been a wild one. | Watching Chris Sale would be a good way to learn how to find the strike zone. | Loading... | Comments Weigh In Corrections? | Recommend | Perso...
SEBI asks AMCs to rein in churn-happy distributors
DNA India
| The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has asked asset management companies (AMCs) to make additional disclosures regarding their distributors and conduct additional due diligence on distributors with high churn. | Now, AMCs will have to...
Gun sales hinge on Obama re-election
WorldNetDaily
| (Wall Street Journal) As Cabela’s Inc. prepares the selection of guns it will sell for the holiday season and winter hunting, the outdoor-gear retailer has two plans: one if President Barack Obama is re-elected, and one if he isn’t. | T...
California home sales climb in August as prices hold steady
The Los Angeles Times
California's housing market showed strength in August with sales posting their best showing for that month in six years and prices holding steady. | Sales rose 4.5% from July and 9.4% from August 2011 to total 41,280, real estate firm DataQuick repor...
Toyota Motors Etios car displayed at an auto expo-automobile-India.
WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam
Toyota floods China with new models to double sales
Japan Times
| Toyota Motor Corp. is adding at least 20 new models in China, where it intends to more than double car deliveries by 2015 from 2011 levels, partly by selling more hybrids and imp...
Residential building - housing society - India - property - real estate
WN / Aruna Mirasdar
Property sale in Delhi 312 colonies will be allowed within a month
The Siasat Daily
| New Delhi, September 07: | A day after regularising 895 unauthorised colonies, Delhi Government Thursday said sale and purchase in such settlements developed on private land will...
Toyota Motors Etios car at an auto expo-automobile.
WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam
Toyota aims to double China car sales to 1.8 million by 2015
CNBC
| CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> aims to sell up to 1.8 million cars annually in China by 2015, up from about 900,000 cars it sold in the world's bigge...
Diesel price hike: Carmakers like Maruti Suzuki, M&M & GM India hopeful festival sales will blunt impact
The Times Of India
| Top industry officials say the diesel price hike may defer demand slightly, yet the upcoming festive season will be better than last year. | MUMBAI: A 5 increase in diesel prices may have provided another telling blow on an already slowing down Ind...
Czechs ban spirit sales after bootleg booze deaths
Otago Daily Times
| Workers puts tape to close an aisle with hard liquor in a supermarket in Prague. REUTERS/David W Cerny | The Czech Republic has indefinitely banned all sales of liquor with more than 20 percent alcohol after 19 people died from drinking bootleg vod...
Czechs ban sale of spirits after bootleg booze kills 19
The Star
| PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic indefinitely banned all sales of liquor with more than 20 percent alcohol on Friday after 19 people died from drinking bootleg vodka and rum containing poisonous methanol. | Authorities have tried for a week to...
Currency
Air New Zealand Pacific Koru 747s
(photo: Creative Commons / Charaka Ranasinghe)
Lift-off for Air NZ outlook
NZ Herald
| Air New Zealand shares soared 13.4 per cent to $1.015 after it forecast it can double its pre-tax profit to $182 million in the current financial year. | The airline said it was well positioned to continue the growth path it had been on before the global financial crisis hit in 2008. | Rob Fyfe said the bullish outlook was far from wishful thinki...



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