Fragrance making began in Provence about 500 years ago, when local tanneries sought to make their leather products smell good.

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We share all of the good and bad about products, and we aim to make the bad parts better.

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Proview had argued that Apple didn't negotiate in good faith, using a shell company that promised not to make competing products under the iPad label.

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People like to make money, and investors therefore are always on the lookout for good companies and products in which to invest.

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The focus on design comes from a recognition that products that are beautiful and easy to use can make their users swoon and pay good money for them.

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The tension between what's good for the online world (and the world at large) and what products can make money is at the heart of a lot of the festival's official programming.

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But, says Jamie Nicholson of Warburg Dillon Reed, an investment bank, with car makers and other steel buyers increasingly looking for local suppliers to make just-in-time deliveries, the export potential of high-value products is not good.

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By using very advanced visualisation tools like Qlikview, we can disect the data and combine them in any dimension we needed, to make sure we have good ways to track out progress, and do not miss any markets or any products or any customers.

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