Gas stations with convenience stores employ roughly 687, 000 workers, down from 714, 264 in 2007, IBIS said.
The second hot niche IBIS identified is less in the spotlight, but in increasing demand.
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By 2003 Cintas had 30% of the commercial laundry and uniform market, says market researcher ibis World.
France's Accor launched its first budget hotel, a 154-room, three-star Ibis in Tianjin in northern China in 2003.
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To meet demand, Accor is already adding another 80 rooms, and wants to open another 50 Ibis hotels by 2010.
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About that time, I was having a conversation with Jaded Ibis publisher Debra DiBlasi about what the 21st Century novel looks like.
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As we gaze out beyond the terrace and the pool towards the hadeda ibis nibbling at an immaculate lawn, life seems pretty good.
Just after dawn, heralded by the madcap call of African Redbilled Francolins, sacred ibis rose from the reeds and vectored off to their feeding grounds.
Amid gnarled tea trees, visitors glimpse the nesting sites of ibis, spoonbills and, if they are lucky, magnificent brolgas, a water bird larger than a crane.
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The Austrian research, published in the latest issue of an ornithological journal, Ibis, sought some up-to-date data on the scale of the parasite problem facing native Galapagos birds.
Lynn and Kye Larson were due to fly to Turkey on Monday for 11 days but were trapped in a lift for 90 minutes at the airport's Ibis hotel.
Her work offers a visual re-reading of the history of a famous 17th-century cape, made of red ibis feathers, which was said to transform its shamanic wearer into a birdman.
It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
Accor found that its luxury hotel brand, Sofitel, was hit hard by the recession, but its more down-to-earth chains (such as Ibis and Red Roof Inns, which rely heavily on domestic car-bound travellers) counterbalanced that effect.
The candy industry has stayed surprisingly resilient despite a flagging economy and lowered discretionary spending among Americans in 2012 totaling more than 117.6 billion, a number expected to climb over the next five years according to IBIS Worldwide research.
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