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The article highlighted the auto industry's overall modest sales growth in the second quarter of the year, driven by factors like high interest rates, elevated vehicle prices, and economic uncertainty, though Tesla experienced a decline amidst increased competition from other automakers.

The article focuses on Queen Camilla stepping into a prominent role within the royal family amidst the illnesses of Princess Catherine and King Charles, undertaking public engagements and appearing as a stabilizing force during a major health crisis.

The article discusses the growing popularity of adventure tourism leading many businesses to mitigate the potential emergency costs of extreme travel, with companies offering rescue and medical evacuation from remote locations and new types of insurance policies for pursuits like space travel.

Reports on the results of the inspection conducted by British airline quality research firm Skytrax on U.S. carriers. Testing of flat-bed seats in premium cabins of airlines.

The article reports on the study conducted by American market research firm JD Power which found that 32% of all infotainment-related automobile complaints were a result of voice-recognition errors.

The article focuses on the survey conducted by Mintel on young men about their fashion. It says that 29% of men agreed that they want to keep up with new fashion trends, while 85% says that they dress for comfort. It cites the Van Heusen Institute of Style marketing effort by Van Heusen, featuring Hall Fameer Steve Young and Jerry Rice and quarterback Matthew Stafford, to help men with fashion.

''We still don't have a firm grasp over our market infrastructure.'' Larry Tabb, head of the Tabb Group, a market research firm, after an automated stock trading program suddenly flooded the market with millions of trades last Wednesday, spreading turmoil across Wall Street. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A California agency is campaigning to get car owners to change their motor oil at a longer interval, claiming that the time-honored practice of switching the oil every 3,000 miles is financially wasteful, detrimental to the environment and unwarranted. A survey conducted in August by New American Dimensions, a marketing research company, of 1,000 car owners with vehicles registered in California found that about half changed their oil every 3,000 miles or less, although very few automakers call for such frequent intervals. It also found that less than 10 percent consulted their car manuals for recommended oil-change schedules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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WITH the stock market lurching again, plenty of investors are nervous, and some are downright bearish. Then there's Robert Prechter, the market forecaster and social theorist, who is in another league entirely. Mr. Prechter is convinced that we have entered a market decline of staggering proportions -- perhaps the biggest of the last 300 years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ONE spring afternoon in the early 1980s Giancarlo Dall'Ara, an Italian hotel marketing consultant, was wandering the streets of a tiny village near Maranzanis, in Friuli, a rural mountainous region in the northeast corner of Italy. There was an eerie, dreamlike feeling to the remote town. Many of its two dozen or so houses had been destroyed by a devastating earthquake that shook the region in 1976. Although a few elderly residents had remained, many of the homes were boarded up and abandoned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Has your mailbox been a little less crowded lately? Credit card issuers are scaling back on their direct-mail offers, according to Synovate, a marketing research firm. It expects the decline to continue through the end of the year, as the credit crisis reverberates. Offers reached their highest point in 2005, as a result of the strong housing market. Consumers, swimming in equity, were only too happy to sign up for new cards, perhaps to buy big-ticket items for their homes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the released data and comments from a Google Inc.'s executive showed that the sales of the existing homes has dropped to their lowest level which concerns the investors.

Reports on the corporate buyout of IMS Health Inc. by VNU, a market research company in the Netherlands.

Provides information on the corporate background of the research firm, the Center for Financial Research and Analysis, founded by Howard Schilit in the U.S. Focus of the company's research; Prevalence of investors making tender offers for the firm; Profitability of corporate research business.

Focuses on the market research company Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. Analyst Faye I. Landes, who concluded that the electronic retailer Amazon.com would underperform this year; What makes Bernstein different from other research firms; Advantages and disadvantages of their system of operation; Impact of a merger between Bernstein and the fund manager Alliance Capital Management.