Sentence examples for retail directive from inspiring English sources

The following are some primers on how simplicity can become a powerful retail directive.

"Shoppers are no longer caught up in the brand and image," says Sandy Richman, president at Directives West, a retail consulting company.

An important element of the EU's plan for a single market in financial services, the directive embraces both wholesale and retail trading in securities, including shares, bonds and derivatives.

The shift from basing tobacco excise rates on the MPPC to the weighted average retail selling price in the latest EU Directive 9 is therefore to be welcomed.

Mrs. Kroes's predecessor, Viviane Reding, who is now European commissioner for justice, used a directive to push through the E.U.'s retail price controls on mobile roaming fees in 2007.

The French withdrew it only for the Spanish to block the vote to make a point about Gibraltar, Britain's colony on the south coast of Spain.Other directives, designed to encourage the development of open and secure retail markets, would cover distance-selling and the cross-border marketing of collective investments, such as mutual funds.

One factor fuelling the decline is the government's directive to tighten excessive lending practices, which has unsettled China's legions of retail investors.PetroChina signed a contract to buy liquefied natural-gas from Exxon Mobil's supplies in the Gorgon field off Western Australia.

The news raised hopes that Royal Bank of Scotland would also avoid a directive from Brussels to break up or sell large swathes of its coveted retail branch network.

Utilising the concept of the servicescape, the paper suggests that distinctiveness may not be apparent at ground floor level, given the consistency of retail fascia design to reflect the chosen brand image and the rigidity with which centralised directives regarding window displays etc. are implemented.

This directive was further strengthened in 2008, when it was made an imprisonable offence to manufacture, retail or use diclofenac for veterinary purposes.

Karl Lagerfeld's directive?