The group provides commercial products to supermarket chains, wholesalers and super-centers, club stores and mass merchandisers.

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It might yield big benefits for commercial airlines and retail chains, which typically lease a large fraction of their assets, and for steel- and automakers that have large unionized workforces, which will give them greater leverage to renegotiate collective bargaining agreements.

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The firm has been seeing double-digit annual sales growth in North America, driven by interest from do-it-yourself chains and insulating commercial buildings, and expects this growth to continue.

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Commercial production could be carried out by a company that collected coffee grounds from big coffee-chains and cafeterias.

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Publicly traded hospital chains have said they are pressing to get paid approximately what they receive for traditional commercial health insurance.

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