Part of Tarad's new strategy has been to hive off most of Tarad.com's small merchants to TaradPlaza.com, while the company assumes a larger role between merchants and customers by providing advice and services to 2,000 or so of the most ambitious merchants.
While dealing with Europe's financial difficulties has been a grim slog for the Continent's austerity-weary citizens and its frustrated policy makers, it is the opportunity of a lifetime for ambitious idea merchants looking for fame.
But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, this unpromising site became a crossroads for the whole Atlantic world.
It was Europe's truly global city, with an ambitious and enlightened merchant class.
Some are based on characters in "The Satyricon," by Petronius, who died in A.D. 66. Scaurus Vettius, an ambitious freed slave turned merchant, resembles Petronius's rich and vulgar Trimalchio.
And there was a sense that the deal could kick-start a round of more-ambitious and more-profitable merchant banking deals, former Merrill executives say.
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon, the world's largest online merchant, has an ambitious and far-reaching new agenda: it wants to rewrite tax policy for the Internet era.
The tale is told as a journal kept by one Roderick Mackenzie, an ambitious climber employed by Edinburgh wine merchant "Claret"Colquhoun.
It's a bit of a shame, then, that each project developed by Gervais and Merchant has been incredibly ambitious, and would work beautifully under the right circumstances.
Staples, the office-supplies merchant, has just completed an equally ambitious kiosk project, installing four so-called access point systems in each of its 974 stores in the United States.
