This is a word, which comes from French. It is used to describe a businessman who starts up and runs his own business ventures.

Another word for bankruptcy. It can also refer to the selling off of goods cheaply to get rid of old stock.

Someone who buys and sells things. De Beers are diamond XXX.

In the case of a bond, this is the date at which the loan is paid back. In the case of a product, it is the stage when a product has become established on the m

When two companies go together or "fuse".

This is a particular part of the whole market. There is, for example, the luxury and then the low-price part.

A product you sell very cheaply - perhaps below cost-price in order to attract customers, who will, for example come to your shop and buy other products which h

This is what is left after the costs of production have been deducted form the turnover figures but before tax has been subtracted.

The price you could sell something for today.

To give somebody the use of your money or something else on the condition that they return it at some time in the future. The opposite of to borrow.

This is similar to GDP, but also includes the revenue generated outside the country perhaps in subsidiaries or in foreign investments.

This is a way of buying something without having to pay the full amount immediately. Normally, you pay a down-payment of, say, 10% and then you pay monthly inst