Southcorp has already invested with a U.S. partner in the Seven Peaks winery in Edna Valley on the coast of central California and is starting a 200-hectare vineyard of its own not far away.

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While Nano-Tex's stain- and wrinkle-resistant technology, called NanoCare, has been the first out of the gate, its NanoFresh (wicks away odor from sports clothing) will not be far behind.

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Not far away is a Protestant church that draws 3, 000 souls to its weekend services.

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If distributed manufacturing and snap-together assembly were really such bad ideas, its American rival Boeing would not have recently adopted the same approach, flying in sub-assemblies to its Seattle base from as far away as Japan and Italy.

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And if RBS has not provided all the credit it could have done to smaller businesses, that may reflect its position as far and away the biggest small-business bank: if many small businesses currently lack the confidence to invest (which surveys suggest is the case), RBS finds it hardest to disguise that trend.

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