And the way many of them cluster together helps them to share distribution and marketing.
Wireless distributor Brightstar reportedly ordered 1 million BlackBerry 10 devices, as part of a bid to share some distribution risk with its carrier partner Verizon.
Bloomberg reported unnamed sources probably lawyers saying that Brasil Foods wass prepared to share its distribution network with competitors and sell brands and facilities to win approval from antitrust regulators.
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But its share of video distribution is just more than 50%, and total subscribers shrank last year.
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BASF, a German firm, which gave Gazprom a bigger share in gas distribution in Germany, opportunities for foreign investors remain uncertain.
She voices an unease that they share about the distribution of Chile's rapidly rising national income: a recent official survey found fewer poor households than before, but a wider gap between poor and rich.
Daoud is a construction worker in central Baghdad, and he's come to collect his monthly share from the local distribution agent.
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Gender equality will exist when both women and men are able to share equally in the distribution of power and knowledge, have equal opportunities, rights and obligations in terms of work or income generation, are given equal access to quality education, capacity building opportunities throughout life and in all domains, and the possibility to develop to their full potential.
Motorola is losing market share to Eastcom, a distribution partner that now makes and sells its own competing mobile phones for less than the American firm.
Despite the takeover of most British investment banks by foreign houses, the domestic distribution of new share issues is still tightly controlled by local corporate brokers.
Physician compensation is tied to "efficiencies, " which means reducing the outlays and costs to the group (translation: skimp where possible) and thus generating for internal distribution a larger share of the prepaid premiums.
It is selling a half share in what it calls its distribution business, which operates 2, 400 stores in nine European countries.
Apple increased its distribution, and its market share doubled to 5.6 per cent.
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Under an agreement signed back when the partnership was formed in 1992, Kinder Morgan Inc. gets 50 cents of every dollar after the distribution hits 93 cents a share.
In a tax-free distribution, shareholders will get one share of Phillips 66 for every two shares they own in the parent company.
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BuzzFeed, one of the foremost native advertising innovators, bases its strategy on social distribution, counting on readers to share its articles, sponsored and non-sponsored alike.
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Acquisitions of rice and pasta businesses have increased Ebro's market share but has also given it access to established distribution networks.
Experience in Europe and Asia shows that public authorities can increase the efficiency of goods distribution in cities by getting private firms to share their lorries.
According to Diamond Distributors, the marquis comic distribution firm, Marvel still owns a larger share of the consumer pie than DC, but DC is coming on stronger every month.
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Digital distribution sales of videogames are taking an increasingly large share of the market, compared to sales by physical retailers like GameStop.
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While no two organizations are alike, they often do share common particulars: industry, departments, geography, organization size and distribution, product area, and sometimes even similar organizational cultures.
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It said it would work with investors on a plan to make "a significant distribution of funds" available to shareholders on top of the share dividend payout for 2004.
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When it comes to movie tickets, state-owned distributor China Film Group has recently sought to deduct the cost of the tax entirely from foreign producers' share of the box office, said several people involved in international film distribution.
When he began his life 92 years ago, a person would have had to have access to very substantial capital, or the distribution of someone else who did, to be able to share a point of view as broadly as he has done during his lifetime.
Biotech has always relied on partnerships with big pharmaceutical firms to share costs associated with Food and Drug Administration approval and eventually with marketing and distribution of approved drugs.
Meanwhile, uncorrupt, globally competitive companies like Matsushita, Toyota and Sony are accounting for an ever greater share of Japan's GDP while inefficient, corrupt sectors like construction, distribution and agriculture wither.
However, when you're allocating profits or losses, or making a cash distribution, you'll want to calculate each member's share as a percentage of the amount he or she has contributed to date.
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Its distribution efficiencies and its leverage with suppliers enabled it to increase its market share among the top four retailers from 44% in 1998 to 51% in 2002, according to Morgan Stanley.
As the Oppenheimer family the longtime owner of the diamond mining, distribution and marketing company prepares to sell its remaining 40 percent share of the company to London-based mining giant Anglo American, it recently announced two moves that will affect its relationship with the U.S. and how it sells diamonds to its network of dealers.
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