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- HeraldTribune.com – News – News stories about Sarasota, Manatee and…
- Sector Watch: Standard Lifeâ’s Harry Nimmo leads the way
- … , but they can’t hide: Google, rivals wrestle with…
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HeraldTribune.com – News – News stories about Sarasota, Manatee and…
Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Dec 24, 2006
41, according to plans submitted this week to the Manatee County Planning Department. A self-storage mini-warehouse would sit behind it. Copeman’s company, Alco Properties, also owns the adjacent storage lot, The Attic, which would close after the new mini-storage lot opens. The eight new homes would front 16th Street West and be separated from the commercial development by a 52,456-square-foot storm-water detention pond, plans show. This mixed-used development proposal is only the latest idea for the property. Last year, big-box retailer Home Depot proposed buying the land and the neighboring mobile home park, Aloha Estates, to build a 156,000-square-foot store and garden center.

Sector Watch: Standard Lifeâ’s Harry Nimmo leads the way
CityWire.co.uk – Dec 24, 2006
He says: ?The structure of smaller company markets, as measured by sector exposure, is very different to the picture in the early 1990s. In those days, nearly one- third of smaller companies were exposed to UK-based manufacturing companies largely in textiles, engineering, chemicals and packaging. ?These companies were facing the full onslaught of overseas competition from countries with cost bases that the UK could not match. Genuine growth sectors constituted a comparatively small part of the whole market picture. ?
Nimmo says the picture is much healthier today… ?
Nimmo says the picture is much healthier today. He highlights that UK-based manufacturing is now a minor part of the smaller companies index due to the growth of IT, support services, healthcare, leisure and speciality financial sectors. Stocks which have caught Nimmo?s eye in today?s market include online business information firm Datamonitor, council house refurbishment group Connaught, engineering design software firm Aveva and self storage firm Big Yellow. Meanwhile, Old Mutual Asset Managers? (OMAM) AAA-rated Dan Nickols was one of the sector?s best performers during the summer volatility, returning 3. 3% on his UK Select Smaller Companies fund.

… , but they can’t hide: Google, rivals wrestle with…
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 24, 2006
(24-DEC-06) Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL). 24–Google’s obsession with data has defined a company that in eight short years has become one of the most successful businesses in modern times.

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