Sentences with phrase «headed by local business»

EIT was headed by local business heavyweights from two prominent families with political connections in state places: the Maines family of Maines Paper & Food Distribution and the Matthews family, members of which owned a number of companies, including Matco Technologies and Matco Electronics.

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The members of the councils include the heads of universities and hospitals, local elected officials, and labor and business leaders — all handpicked by the governor's office.
When Repower / Senvion was spruiking the virtues of its planned 600Mw Ceres wind farm here in SA in 2012 its then head honcho «Pretty boy» in the face of an uproar from local citizens declared at a business lunch in Adelaide that «Opposition to wind farm development in South Australia is driven by political ideology dressed up as a grass roots movement.»
The catastrophic social and environmental consequences of this temperature increase will not be felt by today's decision makers or the heads of big business, but by local and indigenous communities, women and today's youth.
I can keep up with local business owners (my clients of choice) by just heading to our conference room to catch a speaker or a happy hour.
By merely renting a virtual office and including a New York City office address on a law firm's website, business card, and firm letter head, out - of - town lawyers can often command higher billable rates than their local counterparts.
Initially said to be headed worldwide starting October, the Yoga Book can already be purchased on British shores from Lenovo's local e-store, currently shipping in 11 business days for # 510 when running Windows, or four weeks at # 430 a pop powered by Android.
«Real estate is a local business, but each company has its own value proposition,» he says, adding that brokers and agents need to spend more time sizing up franchises by meeting with various leaders in a brokerage, including the heads of marketing, training, and information technology.
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