The 201 square mile city of Griffin, Georgia is in Spalding County, midway between Atlanta and Macon. Incorporated in 1843, it lay on the Monroe Railroad north-south line and maintained an important cotton growing industry. Textile manufacturing began in the 1880’s and several firms dominated the market, including the Kincaid Manufacturing Company that became the…
New consumers around the world want products. Companies need to figure out how to leverage their global footprint in order to capture new market shares. Foreign business in countries such as Denmark may be small, but their exporting activity is in excess of 40% of the country’s GDP. The US no longer dominates the world…
Threadless started in 2010 in Chicago as both an online and brick & mortar business that retails custom-printed merchandise. Customers vote on artist designs that are posted in a weekly competition. The ten selected designs are printed on the various products, returning cash and company gift cards to the artists based upon the number of…
Build your personal splash page and control your web presence. Begun in 2009, sold to AOL in 2010 and repurchased in 2013, developers Tony Conrad and Ryan Freitas believe in proactive management of personal profiles. The About.me platform permits the user to create a single webpage with direct links to other pages so that visitors…
Brainshark offers a selection of video presentation tools for developing and sharing user-created content. Services in the free individual product include a cloud environment. Users can upload PowerPoint, documents, photos and videos into the Brainshark video creation platform. The easy-to-use software permits the developer to create on-demand video that includes text, images and audio. The…
The author investigates the relationship between the EU and its developing world partners to understand the role of competitiveness and cooperation agreements. The article suggests that the EU uses its bilateral and regional agreements as means to direct the alignment of foreign practices and rules with that of the EU. On one level, this policy…