Several union locals involved in the dispute have had to mortgage their headquarters to finance strike benefits, which, with related expenses, have on occasion amounted to $10 million a week.
That departs from the traditional model, where council activities were largely supported by the proceeds from cookie sales and the headquarters was financed by sales of merchandise like uniforms.
With its finance headquarters in Hong Kong, business H.Q. in Düsseldorf and "image" headquarters soon moving to New York, Esprit is now an inversion of its former self.
They were identified as a headquarters building, a finance centre, training compounds, storage facilities, supply trucks and armoured vehicles.
Tishman Speyer Properties has formed a partnership with Morgan Stanley, the global investment bank, to build new headquarters and to finance the project.
The money will come from church headquarters, which tithing finances.
The magazine has a busy foundation and splendid new headquarters in Chicago financed from what, in the imagined world of threadbare poets, was an eye-popping and deeply envied bequest of $200 million in 2002 from Ruth Lilly, the pharmaceutical heiress.
Gentner is convinced that, tethered to headquarters only by financing and R&D, he can outmaneuver a big products shop like the one he left or like Procter & Gamble.
Modern Munich is Germany's Silicon Valley, with thousands of high-tech companies and the headquarters for many media, finance and automotive and aerospace industries, including BMW, which has offices in the north of the city.
FIFA will rebuild a Haitian soccer headquarters, just as it financed and is attempting to refinance a stadium for Palestinians in Ramallah after Israeli bombing there.
