Mr Weston seems aware of the potential limits to this strategy and has, for now, called a halt to the store's expansion plans.Nevertheless, some of what Selfridges does may well be exportable to the thousands of department stores that are wondering what they can do to beat off the competition.
These new industries usually make exportable goods, such as cotton textiles or toys.
The Athenians were driven by the dictates of trade to create first a powerful navy and then an empire.Though Greek agriculture was rich in highly exportable wine and olive oil, thin soil, low rainfall and a mountainous topography made it impossible for farmers to produce enough grain for a growing and increasingly city-based population.
Partly, it is because targeted networks sell better abroad: sports, cartoons or music are all more easily exportable than are general comedy and drama.
But China is such an unusually large and atypical country that other Asians are not sure that the Chinese model, if it really exists, is readily exportable.
Soon, members of the public will be able to download an app that puts them directly in touch with the nearest first-aider, bypassing the call centre.The model of dispersed volunteers using ubiquitous gadgets, a simple medical kit and a motorbike is easily exportable.
Nor are all of them victims of financial collapse: the local economies in some outer islands, rich with exportable resources, such as palm oil, have continued to grow throughout the crisis.
Those with exportable skills are lured by countries that pay better and offer more attractive career prospects, work conditions or lifestyle.
The German government wanted to help DaimlerChrysler and Deutsche Telekom, the national automobile and telecoms giants that are Toll Collect's main shareholders, to develop exportable technology.This ambitious approach determined much of the system's architecture.
An exportable is a good that could be traded across borders, but need not be.
And there is speculation that, should Mr Murdoch grab DirecTV and revive his plan to spin off his satellite-TV outfits into Sky Global, Tony Ball, BSkyB's publicity-shy boss, could get one of the top jobs though Mr Ball insists he is not going anywhere.How exportable is BSkyB's success?
