The importance of active adults to the retail market are significant.

In 2004, the retail market in Viet Nam was worth about 20 billion.

In 2002, for example, China's retail market was worth 4,000 billion, larger than all non Japan Asian countries combined, and represented 5 per cent of worldwide retail sales.

Foreign companies can, however, enter the Indian retail market through manufacturing, franchising, sourcing locally, test marketing, and so forth.

Five large foreign retail chains are operating in the Vietnamese market at present, while many others are waiting for approval.

The gas is brought to the market through a gas pipeline network as well as own gas storage facilities with a capacity of 2.6 bcm and sold via own sales channels.

Furthermore, it was decided that further investigations to test the recommended retail price regime were necessary in order to ensure that realistic market prices prevailed in the market in Zambia.

Until the gas market becomes more liquid and more global, this spread will remain.

The presence of large chains in the retail market is usually conducive to the improvement of local worker skills, especially in logistics.

Its economy has boomed thanks to oil and gas exports, not to healthy market developments.

If China can successfully rebalance its economy and shift to consumption based growth, its trading partners could benefit enormously from a huge retail market.

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The EU urgently needs to build a common energy policy and a single market for natural gas.

Russia certainly pursues economic interests with its gas export policy all the more so when gas prices are trending down and it wants to expand its role on the European gas market to intensify the dependencies that now exist.

With 15 million retail outlets, India has the highest retail outlet density in the world.

The size of the retail market in Ecuador might not make it attractive for new entrants, as no leading international retailers are active in the country.

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Gazprom has flooded the market in Turkey, withheld gas in Ukraine, threatened to do so in Belarus, and offered preferential market access to willing partners, such as Italy.

The wet sulfuric acid process (WSA process) is one of the key gas desulfurization processes on the market today.

As a result, Russia has lost its access to cheap Central Asian gas, as well as to the Chinese market.

Two other developments promise to prevent increased European dependence on Russia massive expansion of liquefied gas imports into the EU and linked to this and to deregulation of the European gas market the transition from long term supply agreements and the oil price peg to market dependent spot prices.

Moreover, Russia controls the vast majority of the gas pipeline system, and has negotiated individually with European countries, with the result that it holds a disproportionate degree of leverage over the European gas market.

The South Caucasus Pipeline, also stretching through the territory of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, became operational at the end of 2006 and offers additional gas supplies to the European market from the Shah Deniz gas field.

Retail trade and wholesale began to operate in the regulatory environment a number of essential laws did not exist, and those that did were not adequate for the new market conditions.

The crisis also revealed the extent of the massive over capacity in the US retail market, with estimates that at least one fifth of American shopping malls would be forced to close.

It is significant for the global energy market because it may hold 25 or more of the world's undiscovered oil and gas resources.

Because a market in tradable liquefied natural gas (LNG) is emerging flows to Europe have more than doubled over the past decade and represent about one quarter of the world s total cross border gas trade Europe will need to invest heavily in new LNG terminals as another alternative to Russian gas.

The retail sector is characterized by economies of scale and scope as well as vertical integration and the existence of large retail chains.

Inefficiency in agriculture, retail, and government are legendary.

Holmes, whose family had a history in retail.

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However, with a growth rate significantly higher than for total retail trade, the share of e commerce in total retail trade is also growing.

At the beginning of this year, Europe introduced a new Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme that uses market based incentives to control carbon emissions.

Ironically, an Iranian civilian nuclear program would enhance US and world energy security by making more oil and gas available in the global market.

The increase in domestic heroin production has provided a massive boost to the local retail market, giving rise to concerns about HIV AIDS spreading in a country with poor infrastructure and nonexistent health services.

Their values vary from gas to gas.

Recent monthly figures suggest a pick up in retail sales.

Overall, consumers are increasing their spending across most retail categories.

Perhaps most important, current retail petrol prices are readily visible.

Its lobbyists told the SEC commissioners that current rules already did everything possible to ensure safety that retail investors want money market funds steady value that change would hurt all investors and that the recent Dodd Frank financial reform legislation disrupts regulators ability to bail out money market funds next time.

Russia s economic growth is still driven by the sound market reforms undertaken in the 1990 s and Putin s first term, together with high oil and gas prices.

Putin has placed energy security at the top of the summit s agenda, but that does not mask Russia s ambition to dominate European markets by controlling the pipelines that carry its oil and gas, the refineries that process it, and the retail outlets that sell it.

In the area of retail, the increasing popularity of modern format large shops, for example retail outlets outside city centres, has given rise to concerns about small shops vanishing.