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June 1, 2005
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The Motley Fool
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Bassett Tracks Hooker Bassett Furniture follows in Hooker Furniture's consolidating footsteps. The company received a pat on the back for its performance, with its stock having risen more than 5% for the day yesterday. |
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Thoughts on Offshoring and Outsourcing Who benefits when companies move operations abroad? Relocating some operations offshore appears to be a smart economic move for some companies. But not all companies are thinking everything through before doing so. And as American jobs are lost, the issue of global outsourcing has become a hot one. Is it really so bad? |
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Hooker Furniture Puts Investors First Closing a factory is never popular, but it's the right thing to do. Hooker's continued devotion to serving its owners' interests preserves the possibility that this company could double yet again. |
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How to cultivate entrepreneurs An IDB study compares what East Asian and Latin American countries do to encourage the creation of new businesses |
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The Motley Fool
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Hooker Punished Optimism over the firm's new business model -- importing furniture made by others -- and the high-margin sales it offered gave way to disappointment when those margins failed to make an appearance in the first quarter of a new and improved fiscal 2008. Investors, take note. |
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Globalization: Where in the World is Your Supply Chain? Globalization and outsourcing offer opportunities and risks for US food manufacturers striving to optimize their supply chains. |
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Hooker's Free Trade U-Turn The furniture maker outsources a lot of its furniture production to China, then signed on to an American funiture manufacturers complaint about China selling bedroom furniture too cheaply in the US. Chine responds by threatening slow production of other goods. |
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Assets, Assets, Everywhere Don't wait for capital to grow - use the people you have around you to make it happen. |
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Resources 01/05 Principal Financial Group teleclasses... When your business doesn't need a full it department but requires technical assistance... A global marketing, consulting and web-content company aimed at assisting entrepreneurs... etc. |
