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- Home-grown exporters: for the third year running Overseas Trading is…
- Country and Western star was a home-grown talent.
- Grand landscapes have grown beyond trophies for wealthy
- A Mideast Silicon Valley
- Shiites Told: Leave Home Or Be Killed
- Indian channels try out new programming concepts: Star Plus, with its…
- Outdoor tomato growing tradition squashed.

Home-grown exporters: for the third year running Overseas Trading is…
Free with registration – Business Asia – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 1, 2006
They specialise in the production of flat steel products, including slab, hot rolled coil, cold rolled coil, plate, tin plate and value-added metallic coated and painted steel products. Their steelworks at Port Kembla in New South Wales is the largest steel production facility in Australia and one of the world’s lowest-cost producers of steel products. Within Australia, the BlueScope Lysaght business rollforms and supplies a range of steel building products, including roof and wall cladding, steel house framing, rainwater products such as guttering and downpipes, fencing, structural products such as purlins and flooring systems, meshes and walkways, and home improvement products. LYSAGHT[R] products are sold through distributors and suppliers Australia-wide. BlueScope Steel also operates the only integrated flat products steelworks in New Zealand and has a 50 percent share in the North Star BlueScope Steel mini mill in Ohio, in the United States. Also in the US, BlueScope Steel acquired Butler Manufacturing in April 2004. Butler is the world’s leading manufacturer and provider of pre-engineered steel building systems and has number one market positions in North America and China.

Country and Western star was a home-grown talent.
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Country and Western star was a home-grown talent. | Europe Intelligence Wire (March, 2006).

Grand landscapes have grown beyond trophies for wealthy
San Francisco Chronicle – Mar 1, 2006
The couple had lived four years in San Francisco and knew the value of well-designed outdoor spaces. They hired a landscape designer, Laura Donoghue, who spent the next few weeks figuring out why theirs didn’t work and how to fix it. The result, as the photographs show (Page G8), is a transformation from a dull suburban yard to an inviting outdoor living area that is used every month of the year. “We felt confined by the edge of the deck,” said Salow, 40… In a recent study of the economic impact of the entire horticultural industry, three university researchers calculated that consumers in 2004 spent almost $40 billion on landscaping services, the sector that provides design, construction and maintenance to residential and commercial consumers. (The figure is not broken down to residential alone. ) If you add the amount of business this sector generates for other businesses, the sum climbs to $58 billion, by far the largest segment in the $148 billion green industry and one that has grown at an astonishing rate since the late 1980s. It has a sustained average annual growth rate of 6 percent, said Alan W. Hodges, an economist at the University of Florida, one of the study’s authors. Growth like this might occur in a new industry such as information technology, but only in spurts. “Rarely do you see it sustained over this period,” he said.

A Mideast Silicon Valley
Red Herring – Mar 1, 2006
Ataya’s business cuts a different profile. It’s an online career site called Bayt. com—a home-grown, venture-backed startup, in fact. With $3 million in funding, Bayt is already profitable and serving more than 1 million registered job-seekers across the Middle East, he says. But venture backing was hard to come by in 2000, when he co-founded the business. “We knew we only had one shot,” says 33-year-old Mr… There, he learned about structuring mergers and taking companies public. Back in his native region, he opened a records-management company called InfoFort before starting his job site, and it was all starting to come together. “In the Middle East, people with my background have significant competitive advantages,” says Mr. Investors pulled billions out of the United States and Europe on fears of an economic downturn and rising anti-Arab sentiment.

Shiites Told: Leave Home Or Be Killed
Washington Post – Mar 1, 2006
Attacks on Shiite and Sunni holy sites had been rare in Iraq until last Wednesday, when bombers blew the gold-plated top off the shrine in Samarra, a heavily Sunni city about 65 miles north of Baghdad. The attack unleashed what many people here vowed would never happen: sectarian warfare in Iraq. "One of those men told me, ‘You started this, by burning our mosques and killing our people,’ " said Rashid’s grown nephew, kneeling with other men from the displaced families. Around them, black-shrouded women drank tea and children napped or played. At least 58 dislodged Shiite families have come to Shoula since late last week, said Raad al-Husseini, a cleric who is helping the families settle in. Husseini credited the organization of Moqtada al-Sadr, an outspoken Shiite cleric and growing political force in Iraq — along with the people of the neighborhood — for coming to the refugees’ aid with blankets, clothing, and pots of stew and rice. Husseini did not know the total number of displaced people in Shoula, but Rashid, the laborer, said about 200 had left his town.

Indian channels try out new programming concepts: Star Plus, with its…
Free with registration – Television Asia – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 1, 2006
(country profile)(Industry overview) –> COPYRIGHT 2006 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US) Hindi entertainment channels are increasingly exploring the genre of nonfiction to boost their viewership While Star Plus sustains its leadership, buoyed by heavy dose of family oriented drama series, the likes of Sony Entertainment Television (SET), Zee TV and Star One have been adding game and quiz shows, and talent hunt programs, to improve their ratings. Leading the trend is home-grown Indian channel Zee TV that recently introduced a game show Kam aur Zyada (More or Less). The quiz series, based on the Finnish format G5 Gimme Five, is offering US $680,000 as the top cash prize. Zee TV has been consistently coming up with original reality concepts such as a music talent show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 (where four music directors are pitted against each other for finding talented singers) and India’s Best, a talent hunt for a Bollywood actor and actress. Ashvini Yardi, programming head Zee TV says that the channel has been following a conscious strategy, pushing its hardcore soaps to early prime time and experimenting with newer genres at later prime time. She says that Zee TV’s line-up offers a variety unmatched by other channels.

Outdoor tomato growing tradition squashed.
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