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 | | Quaternary industry includes services needed by producers such as trade, insurance, legal services, banking, advertising, wholesaling, retailing, consulting, information generation and real estate transactions. |
 | | Such activities represent one of the major growth sectors in post-industrial economies and a geographical segregation seems to be developing in which manufacturing is increasingly shunted to the peripheries while corporate headquarters, markets and the producer-related service activities remain in the core. |
 | | Increasingly important in the quaternary sector is the collection, generation, storage, retrieval and processing of computerized knowledge and information including research, consulting, publishing and forecasting. |
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