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The Great Lakes Wind Network, based in Ohio, helps local firms sell goods to the wind business.

All this lowers the competitiveness of local firms, as well as multinational companies operating in the region.

He started in 1990, just as the Indian economy was being liberalised, by founding IT&T, a computer-maintenance business serving local firms.

No banks in Manchuria were allowed to deal in foreign exchange and it was impossible for local firms to do any foreign trade.

The newly founded Taiwan Memory Company (TMC), which is to take over the six local firms, could become the core of a global memory giant.

And the state would keep buying up the surplus, effectively offering to use its huge dollar reserves to bail out local firms.

Under the new rules, local firms can invest up to half of their total assets under management abroad, up from 30 per cent previously.

Although the firm launched its own Australian practice earlier in May, it continues to have a referral relationship with larger local firms.

Mr Arme said that, despite tough economic times, he thought jobs were still out there with local firms.

Customers sign up to receive offers from local firms.

An estimated $50bn has been raised for China by international and local firms, with the bulk of that in the past three years.

Further, imports expose local firms to competition, stimulating management to improve performance.

But with stronger growth in emerging markets filling the coffers of local firms, their appetite for adventure in the old world is returning.

From the initial days of the high-speed railway program, Beijing turned to local firms, including Hollysys, rather than foreign expertise.

Yet local firms' capacity to absorb knowledge is crucial in knowledge-sharing partnerships with foreign firms.

Local firms have been quick off the mark to cash in on the oil boom.

Imports of new and improved intermediate inputs increase the efficiency of local firms.

The trial is now limited to 400 local firms and authorities have indicated they're in no rush to expand it.

Licensing of new versions of foreign games has been delayed, and local firms have gradually learnt to develop their own products.

At the end of 2008, Brazil and Japan both experienced a sharp reduction in flows of trade finance from abroad to local firms.

Local firms were invited to tender for the construction of the new motorway.

Local firms the JBG Cos. of Chevy Chase and Monument of the District also made submissions.

And despite their appetite for western expertise, local firms have reservations too.

Like many other local firms, Natuzzi has had to lay off workers at its factories near Matera.

Ballooning deal prices may also drive crafty local firms to invest more money abroad.

We sent the brochures to four local firms that had three-colour illustrations.

German universities work hand in glove with researchers at local firms.

Furthermore, HSBC has lost market share in many countries, mainly to thriving local firms (see chart 1).

But they have grown rapidly, by hiring young new accountants and acquiring local firms.

The move surprised many, given the government's previous tolerance of anti-competitive practices by favoured local firms.

The authorities even considered introducing a law that would mandate a 50% market share for local firms by 2010.

For example, local firms tend to pay less than international firms and UK based international firms tend to pay less than those from the US.

Other local firms also have big expansion plans.

Mr. Liu: It's a definite Chinese strategy to make local firms bigger, stronger, so they can compete with the Big Four.

But in sectors such as fund management and securities, Beijing still insists foreign firms form joint ventures with local firms.

Foreign-aid agencies provide more and better-paid jobs, especially for the well educated, than do local firms or the state.

The firms have gone away. So we need to encourage the growth of local firms.

BIDs are not-for-profit bodies that provide services, such as private security guards and sanitation, on behalf of local firms.

While many foreign lawyers have offices in China, they cannot officially practise law in the country and have to act through local firms.

They can also offer expertise to local firms that are keen to outsource the management of their overseas investments.

Second, the Chinese government is pushing "indigenous innovation" by favouring local firms in tendering, procurement and so on.

Officials here admit that local firms have little or no brand savvy, and they are pouring in money to fill the gaps.

Other families, controlling more than 200 local firms, had also decried the exchange's move.

Last year, when coal prices were at their height, several local firms listed on Jakarta's stockmarket.

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