Meanwhile Beirut-based distributor Italia Films has changed its mind about showing Brokeback Mountain in the Gulf region.
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One UK based distributor, called VIP, says over stringent regulation could see them go out of business.
First Pacific recently sold its 65% interest in Hong Kong cellular phone firm Pacific Link, and is looking for buyers for its entire 40% shareholding in Amsterdam-based distributor Hagemeyer.
Enter Argentine millionaire, Eduardo Costantini of Costa Films, the company behind 2007 Berlinale winner "Elite Troop, " and Hengameh Panahi of Paris-based distributor Celluloid Dreams which represents films like Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet, " which won the Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival this year.
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Although buyers often are distracted by the looming shadow of the Cannes Film Festival, which begins May 16, "Tribeca is a good one to pay attention to, " said David Laub, who handles acquisitions for Oscilloscope Laboratories, a New York-based distributor that releases features and documentaries, often with a subcultural element.
After Toshoku, a Tokyo-based food distributor, went bankrupt late last year, U.S.-based Cargill stepped in with financial support and reportedly aims to take over the Japanese firm.
Mick Carver, managing director of Lowestoft-based drinks distributor JV Trading, started work to secure the rights to the Lacons name in 2009.
"They are pretty willing now to help us integrate some interesting non-IBM products, " says John Henderson, a buyer at a large Indianapolis-based medical products distributor.
Coffee Holding Co. (JVA), a coffee distributor based in Staten Island, New York, has seen its stock price jump about lately like some kind of tropical bean.
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Woo is deputy chairman of Hong Kong-based international fashion brand distributor Lane Crawford Joyce Group, the retail brands of which include Lane Crawford, Joyce and Pedder Group.
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SunPower is a manufacturer and distributor of silicon-based solar cells.
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The distributor, New York-based FilmBuff, which specializes in VOD releases, hasn't yet finalized the date with broadband and cable providers.
The film also received money from the film's UK distributor Momentum and the London-based post-production company Molinaire.
"We're probably the only people in the world selling socks brought in by air freight, " says Sunakoshi Yukio, spokesman for Wix, the Japanese distributor for the New York-based manufacturers.
Mehta told The Hindustan Times that the film, based in India, has yet to find a distributor in the country.
Gnip, based in Boulder, Colorado, is more of a wholesale distributor.
Based in Dallas, Texas, Eagle is a manufacturer and distributor of building material and construction products like cement, gypsum wallboard, recycled paperboard, and concrete and aggregates.
The company reports revenue based on a platinum product price that anyone who signs up as a distributor avoids, which makes the business model seem less reliant on recruiting incentives.
MRC, headquartered in Houston, is the largest global industrial distributor of pipe, valves and fittings to the energy industry, based on sales.
With SuSE, a Linux distributor, the connection is obvious, but MP3.com's interest in Linux-based ReiserFS is less clear-cut.
In that same year, Cultiba was the only producer and distributor of beverages in Mexico with nationwide operations and was the country's second-largest beverage company based on combined sales volume of soft drinks and water.
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