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STORY:
091209-AMUHS
by
Bob Vereen,
Worldwide DIY Council
AMERICA'S
MOST UNUSUAL HARDWARE STORE
Tucked
away in an unincorporated community of 600 in northeastern
Ohio is a multi-million dollar retail hardware operation
with an amazingly huge inventory of non-electric appliances,
stoves, tools and lights which it sells around the
world...(story continued...)
STORY:
091209-HTSATC
by
Bob Vereen,
Worldwide DIY Council
HOW
TO SUCCEED AGAINST
TOUGH COMPETITORS
Competition is tough
everywhere around the world for independent retailers
and small chains, but especially so wherever big-box
retailing is firmly entrenched, yet there are survival
strategies that can be employed to increase one's
sales and net profits...(story
continued...)
STORY:
091209-EURC
by
Bob Vereen,
Worldwide DIY Council
EU
REGULATORY CHALLENGES
(A
digest of a session conducted by the US Commercial
Service of Brussels during an exporting seminar at
Purdue University)
Although the European
Union consists of 500 million consumers making it
economically the largest economy in the world with
only one set of rules instead of 27, unfortunately,
that one set of rules is not in operation all the
time.
The challenge is that the EU is a fragmented single
market!....(story continued...)
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