A recent Atlantic piece highlights a disturbing emerging trend: women are
increasingly signing business emails with an xoxo.
Not exact matches
Still, his comments mark the latest
sign that the marijuana industry is
increasingly seen as a legitimate way for
businesses to make money in a hyper - competitive retail sector.
But for
businesses that are willing to
sign longer leases, those concessions are
increasingly substantial.
This is a timely development, as cash strapped western governments reduce the amount of money they dedicate to international aid, and consumers show
signs that they
increasingly expect the brands they buy from to be ethically conscious, the changing funding environment around NGOs will make the role of
businesses in achieving the goals fundamental.
As my colleagues Josh Rottenberg and Daniel Miller noted in a report last week, these twin industry bombshells are the latest
signs of a Hollywood
business model that, in pursuit of brand consistency and franchise longevity,
increasingly devalues the role and creative vision of the director.
Generally, you want cash to come from
business operations:
Increasingly positive cash flow from operating activities is a good
sign.
But it certainly doesn't hurt to try, given the extraordinary gulfs on the planet now between haves and have nots, the
signs that
business as usual will be hard to fit on a finite,
increasingly human - shaped planet and the fast - expanding capacity to share and shape ideas in ways that smooth the human journey.
In a
sign of how the renewable energy sector is becoming
increasingly dependent on government hand - outs, The Guardian reports that the company is now the fourth solar
business to cease trading in the space of a fortnight following cuts to state subsidies.