It says its three chains there enjoy a strong cash flow but that the company is investing heavily to generate long-term growth.
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PepsiCo spun off Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut more than 15 years ago, but the three chains still serve PepsiCo drinks, and executives collaborate in other ways to boost their respective fortunes.
Britain's Competition Commission indicated earlier this year that the supermarket industry was moving towards that point: it refused to let any of the top three supermarket chains buy one of the smaller players.
French consumption of beef plunged last year when three supermarket chains said they had sold beef from a herd containing an animal infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), otherwise known as mad cow disease.
At Yum Brands' three main chains, U.S. average same-store sales growth softened last year after the first quarter. (They rose an estimated 2% for the year.) In a move that can be seen as desperate, McDonald's and Burger King keep extending those 99-cent add-ons in an attempt to boost sales.
Three international hotel chains, Radisson, Hilton and Inter-Continental, are likely to assume management of three new luxury hotels now under construction.
The three publicly quoted chains have introduced loyalty programmes and flexible pricing.
This comes even after Gap tried to stay competitive during the Black Friday weekend, keeping many stores open on Thanksgiving Day and offering deep discounts at all three of its chains.
Left with just two weeks to explain exactly how seven of the web's biggest properties (and three office supply chains) violated his company Interval's patents, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen figured out a plan -- Intervals' lawyers are drawing big, colored boxes around large swaths of the allegedly infringing websites' real estate.
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It was third down and the Giants just needed three yards to move the chains.
Shadow children's secretary Michael Gove said the Tories would set up an "incubator" for graduates of the three programmes to work with chains of Academies.
In its recent list of the hottest 100 retailers, industry trade magazine STORES noted there are three other natural-foods chains growing faster than Whole Foods.
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Three of the biggest theater chains not selling online tickets for a massive (and probably somewhat front-loaded) franchise picture could theoretically make a dent in its opening weekend.
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Guests rate four of Choice's hotel chains as about average and three as below average in quality, according to Westlake Village, Calif. market research firm J.
With two other movie chains in bankruptcy, and three more reportedly lurching toward it, Anschutz will have a hard time earning a return on his investment anytime soon.
Its size, meanwhile, is letting Couche-Tard get better supplier deals and set up more distribution centers, either wholly owned or in partnership with a convenience store wholesaler, such as Warren Buffett's McLane in the eastern U.S. The centers give Bouchard the ability to ship dairy products, sandwiches and pastries to stores two to three times a week to outflank the grocery chains.
However, Amazon has also managed to match the big chains, book for book, in three crucial areas not thought of as niche skills: convenience, range and price.
Made by Italian mannequin maker Almax SpA, the EyeSee went on sale last December and is currently in use in three European countries as well as the US, though major chains like Benetton Group, Nordstrom and Burberry have stated they have not implemented them.
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All three were provided wine lists from nine steakhouses, most of them chains with multiple U.S. and even some international locations (the exception being New York's Peter Luger, which only has two locations).
Where were the chains and ropes that police say were used to bind those three women?
On the other hand, of the four restaurant chains that have successfully gone public so far this year, three have performed well.
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But by the time In Chains was recorded in 2008 as the final EP in a three part series, Skalsky's one-man band had evolved into a quartet based in Brooklyn.
In water 20 to 25 feet deep just off the Thimble Islands, Mr. Smith has set up two, 150-foot lines of rope that are submerged about three feet below the water's surface and held into place by chains and 400-pound anchors.
Three strikes in less than a year have interrupted the just-in-time supply chains on which modern car plants rely.
As long as you have an HD-equipped radio (three million have been sold by Ibiquity, which is owned by big-league radio chains) you can listen to the digital signal free, without a subscription, and at the same frequencies, too.
The big toy chains were avoided and Beanies were sold to smaller, independent stores in bundles of three dozen or less.
Oshima aims to more than double the chain-to 2, 000 shops-over the next three years via new franchises and company-owned outlets, including those inside supermarket and discount chains.
While lags are expected (economists speak of a J-curve effect that accounts for the process of adjustment to the new prices in both countries), a two or three year lag in an era of instant communications, cyberspace transactions, transnational production, and airtight supply chains is simply not credible.
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It is a three-legged race with the runners struggling to go their own sweet way, while bound together by heavy chains.
Mercury nominated three-piece I Am Kloot produce a typically beautiful, understated version of the Gerry Goffin and Carole King track Chains.
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