Microsoft

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If your company is seized by the desire to get a better grip on its pricing model, Rapt would like to help. Rapt provides pricing and profitability management software that helps clients analyze and improve pricing decisions, prioritize supply investments, and boost profits. The company's products include Price Director, a platform for coordinating price decisions; Revenue Director, an application that helps companies prioritize inventory investments based on their profit goals; and Business Director, a business intelligence tool that offers a unified picture of profitability performance over time and across geographic, customer, and product line segments. Microsoft purchased Rapt in early 2008.RETURN

Macintosh

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Macintosh Retail Group feeds the voracious appetites of consumers in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the UK. As a holding company, the group binds its operating companies together to form a retailing behemoth with more than 1,275 stores that sell a variety of consumer products organized along three sectors; living, fashion, and automotive and telecom. Specializing in home furnishings and decorations the company living division includes retail stores in the Kwantum and GP Décors chains. Stores in the fashion sector include Brantano, Dolcis, Manfield, and Invito with BelCompany and Halfords rounding out its telecom and automotive sectors. The company acquired the Belgian shoe retailer Brantano NV in 2008.RETURN