Paul Matthews has been promoted from managing director of distribution - the insurance industry's sales network - to become head of the UK's newly combined sales and marketing division titled "Take to Market".

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"We are very pleased to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8910 smartphone with Digital China across their nationwide retail distribution network, " said Gregory Shea, Managing Director, China at Research In Motion.

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"As we've gone electronic, we've really opened our distribution network, " says Rick Redding , the managing director of products and development at the CME.

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Judith McGuinn, the VP and director of Time Warner AudioBooks, says digital distribution can expand the audiobook market as both a marketing tool and supplemental revenue stream.

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"We expect to announce soon the distribution of our channel, " said Gustavo Leme, general director of Fox International Channels in Brazil.

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"The Asian TV programmer doesn't care how many foreigners come in, " says Nicholas James, managing director of Media Asia, a Hong Kong production and distribution company.

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"Today we can report that we have been notified that some of the surplus property has been located in Texas and will be coming to the state of Louisiana for distribution by Unity New Orleans, " said Paul Rainwater, the executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority.

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"Twitter is a growing source of inbound referral traffic and outbound content distribution for online media publishers and broadcasters, " said Jonathan Wilner, senior director, business product management at Ooyala.

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One 2011 Chinese martial-arts film with Western sensibilities is "Wu Xia, " from director Peter Chan, which Weinstein Co. signed for U.S. distribution at Cannes (so far there's just a Blu-ray with English subtitles available).

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Typically the distribution studio will take about 80% of a DVD's gross, but the clout of writer, director and producer Mel Gibson allowed him to cut a special deal with Fox, according to Scott Hetrick, editor in chief of trade magazine DVD Exclusive.

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