"The U.S. food distribution business looks like the grocery business 15 years ago, " he notes.
Starbucks outsources its distribution business to Kraft, owner Maxwell House, getting a royalty on sales.
Tsujihara grew up making deliveries for his parents' egg distribution business in Petaluma, Calif.
Insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group may further vertically integrate into the mail-order drug distribution business.
On the question of the role Netflix plays in the movie distribution business, Dunn has mixed feelings.
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"It will enable us to enhance our distribution business through greater stockholding and improved logistics, " he added.
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In particular, NBCU's fast-growing, highly profitable cable networks are a great complement to our industry-leading distribution business.
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This was subsequently converted with permission to a printing works and finally to a warehouse and distribution business.
Berkeley, he got into the software distribution business and his Softbank company became the top distributor in Japan.
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The devaluation also harmed Chemapol's pharmaceutical-distribution business, which cannot charge more for imported drugs whose prices are regulated.
Together the brothers opened a wine-and-cheese store and a deli but sold them to start an alcohol distribution business.
The investment research firm said IP is working toward transforming and improving the profitability of its distribution business, Xpedx.
He has no intention of going into the processing or distribution business himself.
But individual investors such as Eric Brehm, owner of a medical-supply distribution business in Sunnyvale, Texas, were in the dark.
If Calder can buy Virgin on the cheap, he would amass enough volume to justify building his own worldwide distribution business.
It is selling a half share in what it calls its distribution business, which operates 2, 400 stores in nine European countries.
But then the price of the edible oils used in many of its products--the Achilles' heel of the food distribution business--started gyrating.
Some deals have paid off, like a large domestic food distribution business.
The firm, which employs more than 24, 000 workers in the UK, announced 400 job losses in its distribution business, on 6 November.
The firm, which employs more than 24, 000 workers in the UK, also announced 400 job losses in its distribution business, on 6 November.
After running a computer distribution business, he spent ten years living in the vacation home of an employer who visited about once a month.
Apple Corps' lawyer Geoffrey Vos pointed back to the original agreement, saying that Apple Computer's music distribution business "was flatly contradictory" to its terms.
"Nokyo said we'll ruin their distribution business, but with Dole we just deliver tomatoes in large containers and it does the rest of the work, " says Matsunaga.
The company has increased sales and maintained 10% operating margins in the distribution business by developing an innovative modular approach to selling molds, which are usually custom-made.
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Significantly, it is entirely consistent with our intense focus on value creation and our disciplined strategy of pursuing profitable growth in areas complementary to our distribution business.
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The restructuring split the feed-distribution business in China between the newly formed East Hope Group, owned by Liu Yongxing, and the South Hope Group, controlled by Liu Yonghao.
Starz Distribution's home video, digital media and worldwide distribution business units distribute original programming content produced by Starz, as well as entertainment content for itself and third parties.
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Excluding the effects of the distribution business sales and the CEO transition, the company said it expects revenue to grow between 14 percent and 18 percent in 2013.
He soon decided to jump into the software distribution business.
Asked about the potential for Apple to get deeper into the video distribution business, Dunn says he thinks it is not likely that they will offer a subscription model.
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