{"id":5148,"date":"2016-08-16T03:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/merchandising\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:17:45","slug":"merchandising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/merchandising\/","title":{"rendered":"MERCHANDISING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded. <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'><i>\u2014Luke 17:28<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>3384<\/b><b> Largest Corporations<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Around the world, there are 137 business corporations with sales exceeding $2,500,000,000. Of these, 82 are U. S., 40 Europeans, 11 Japanese, and 2 Canadians. Exxon is the largest corporation. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The first company in the United States to surpass one billion dollars in annual sales was the U. S. Steel Corporation in 1917. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>3385<\/b><b> The Coca-Cola<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The world\u2019s most popular and best-selling drink, Coca-Cola, is produced at hundreds of plants worldwide at the rate of 165 million bottles a day. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The coke syrup, however, is made in only one place: Atlanta, Georgia. The formula is not registered with the patent office because the owners didn\u2019t want anyone to know about it. That formula has been kept secret for the last 90 years. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>3386<\/b><b> Largest Shop<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The Ford Parts Redistribution Center in Michigan is the world\u2019s largest building. It has a floor area of 70 acres. It opened in 1971 and employs 1,400 people. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The building with the largest cubic capacity is the Boeing Company\u2019s main assembly plant in Washington State. Its enclosed capacity is 200 million cubic feet. Inside this gigantic plant, Boeing 747s are manufactured. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>3387<\/b><b> John Ruskin\u2019s Prideful Discovery<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>John Ruskin noted with pride that he was the first traveller in Venice to discover a famous inscription on one of its stones. Near the Rialto Bridge stands one of the oldest churches in Venice. On its northern gable facing the bridge which was the commercial centre of the city, there are carved the following words: <i>Hoc circa templum sit jus mercantibus aquum, pondera nec vergant, nec sit conventio prava<\/i> (\u201cAround this temple let the merchants\u2019 law be just, let not their weights be false, nor their covenants unfaithful.\u201d). <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The inspiration for this was also found in the simple cross set into the wall above it, inscribed with this prayer: \u201cMay Thy Cross, O Christ, be the true safety of this place.\u201d This honesty and equity in business were the characteristics of Venetian merchants. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014James Burner<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>3388<\/b><b> Tablecloth Was On Approval<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>A. L. Bell, head of the linen department at Marshall Field and Company in the early days, imported an expensive tablecloth from Italy. When he told Marshall Field he was asking eight hundred dollars for it, the head of the store declared the price was too high. \u201cYou\u2019ll never sell it,\u201d he said gloomingly. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>A week later Field sent for Bell. \u201cI was wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cYour judgment was better than mine. I dined on that tablecloth at a friend\u2019s house last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The blushing Bell replied, \u201cSorry, Mr. Field, she took it on approval yesterday morning and returned it today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>See also:<\/b> Buying and Selling ; Rev. 18:11, 13, 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded. \u2014Luke 17:28 3384 Largest Corporations Around the world, there are 137 business corporations with sales exceeding $2,500,000,000. Of these, 82 are U. S., 40 Europeans, 11 Japanese, and 2 Canadians. 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