Two companies long known for weak product innovation, success driven by market domination and distribution control tactics, are partnering to take on the two most innovative companies in digital technology as they create entirely new markets with new technologies.
The consumer may be king, but how can a manufacturer best serve him if the courtier distribution networks control access to him?
They say that the proposed change could weaken state control over the distribution, quality-control and taxation of alcoholic products.
The appeal for both companies is to control distribution, which ostensibly better enables their ability to respond to shifts in consumer tastes.
As for content creation, the deep pockets of traditional TV production companies will likely disappear along with their ability to control distribution.
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The ruling is a setback for the motion-picture industry, which pushed hard for the rules in an effort to control distribution of its content.
One view sees copyright as a right to control the distribution of copies of a work.
In simple terms, DRM aims to control the distribution of digital content whether online or off.
They promptly seized control of distribution in the United States, and turned the Colombians into mere suppliers.
According to Riccardo, the plan ignores that drug companies control drug distribution networks.
When Apple opened their stores 12 years ago, Steve Jobs knew that he had to control his distribution and his product.
CEO, has restored its financial fortunes, rescuing it from near-bankruptcy by buying back licences and keeping a tighter control on distribution.
The government continues to strictly control the distribution of food and medicine.
Given the unstoppable force of users uploading content against the immovable object of rights holders attempting to control the distribution of their content, YouTube ostensibly did nothing.
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Until last summer, advertising any alcohol other than light beer was strictly prohibited in Utah, one of 18 states that control the distribution and price of liquor.
It said it sees further potential to build on the solid performance of its Northern and German businesses, for instance with increasing online distribution and further cost control.
Roku CEO Anthony Wood, for one, thinks that the more content moves to Internet delivery, the more companies such as his are in a position to control TV distribution.
There have been booms in independent film-making before, but on previous occasions the studios have used their control of distribution systems and their libraries to fend off such competition.
The elites in any system not only have more political and economic power, they also have more access to information and control the distribution of information in any given system.
"We feel we've got control over the distribution in Europe, " he adds, eagerly gazing across the pond.
These days, the big idea is to control manufacturing, distribution, retailing and marketing.
Control of the portable and home software platform now not only means control of software distribution, but of all content distribution.
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Calvin Klein's current troubles are related to the company's loss of control of the distribution of its wares in many countries.
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Among the regulators' concerns are that Malone would have too much control over both distribution and content in Germany if he acquired Deutsche Telekom's systems.
It seeks to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law and cut spending on Medicaid, a government health programme for the poor, by giving control of its distribution to states.
In January, Albania revoked the license of CEZ and announced that electricity distribution would return to government control, but experts in Bulgaria have expressed doubt the government can legally do that.
If you control the entire distribution channel from raw material to retail you might only get hit with the tax twice in going from orignial production to consumption as opposed to multiple times.
This is a major escalation of the battle between Amazon, probably the underdog, and Apple for control of digital media distribution.
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BBH's strategy is to buy more breweries and to gain as much control as possible of distribution (the alcohol wholesale business in Russia is at best messy, and at worst outright criminal).
Private labels also offer more control over product development and distribution, enabling department stores to release new products as much as 60 to 90 days ahead of their name-brand competitors.
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