In a business meeting, ideas could be clearly expressed in spoken words, but they are captured, explained, and sold up the chain in written form.

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Speaking from the East and Central Africa region, the concept of supply chain, in its true form has not yet reached here.

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The group then walked to Victory Road, where the fire happened, and joined hands to form a human chain along the street.

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Among the tens of thousands of protesters who gathered in Tokyo, some headed to the parliament building in Nagatacho to form a human chain around it in the early evening.

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Desert Artisans is one of 17 companies that collectively count some 15, 000 rural artisans as shareholders and form the backbone of Fabindia's supply chain.

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In fact, this process is comparable to the use of fertilizers in agriculture, i.e. adding nutrients that are found to be lacking in the local environment to stimulate plant growth, in this case phytoplanckton that form the base of the marine food-chain.

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Walgreen Co. (NYSE:WAG), the largest drug store chain in the U.S., and his Alliance Boots announced that they would form a strategic partnership that would likely lead to a merger.

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In contrast, for every dollar spent at a chain store, only 14% of the revenue stayed in the local community, mostly in the form of payroll.

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