This is a preview of The Reverse Logistics Report from Business Insider Intelligence. Current subscribers can read the report here. Business Insider Intelligence With e-commerce becoming a lucrative shopping channel, retailers and their logistics partners have been primarily focused on how to quickly move goods through the supply chain and into the hands of consumers — a process […]
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It looks like T-Mobile and Sprint are inching closer to finalizing terms in multibillion-dollar merger
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis US wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint are finalizing terms as they seek to sign a merger by Monday that could value Sprint at around $ 26 billion. The combined company, with more than 127 million customers, would have added clout to challenge industry leaders Verizon and AT&T. Among other things, the telecom giants are in […]
The Blood of America’s Poor Fuels a Multibillion-Dollar Industry
Medicaid, housing subsidies, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—these are some of the things that make up the backbone of the U.S.’s social safety net. And the federal government, guided by President Trump’s proposed budget for 2019, is seeking to make deep cuts to all three of them. Yet while this threatens the government’s social safety […]
Mexican drug cartels are targeting a multibillion-dollar industry
Thomson Reuters SALAMANCA, Mexico (Reuters) – The first call, from someone claiming to belong to the Michoacan Family drug cartel, came in February 2015. “They said they knew who I was and where I lived,” said Alberto Arredondo, who got the call at work as a pump technician at an oil refinery in the central […]
China’s new multibillion-dollar target market: LGBT youth
Wikimedia Commons China’s Spring Festival, which celebrates the lunar New Year, is the ultimate test for fledgling romances. A partner’s invitation to meet family signals commitment; but for China’s LGBT population, the holiday creates disproportionate stress. Only 5 percent of them have come out of the closet, and they are, as a group, under remarkable […]