With little competition--and partners like food-distributor giant Sysco and grocery chains like Kroger, Shop Rite, Giant and Harris Teeter on board--Davidson's plan looks unbreakable.
With little competition--and such partners as the food-distributor giant Sysco and the grocery chains Kroger, Shop Rite, Giant and Harris Teeter on board--Davidson's plan looks unbreakable.
DFS, a luxury-goods distributor whose assets include 180 duty-free stores in Asia.
There are specialty e-distributor such as netflix that takes Wal-Mart out of the DVD competition but that is simply too costly to create.
Ingram Micro shares are trading higher Thursday morning after the IT products distributor posted better-than-expected Q4 results.
Among the "slaughtered" companies--those that have reported deteriorating fundamentals--Buckingham sees value in top grocery distributor Fleming (nyse: FLM - news - people ).
SpeechWorks International has one confirmed SpeechSite customer so far -- McKesson, a large pharmaceutical distributor -- with several others on the line.
Advanced Marketing Services (nyse: MKT - news - people ), a San Diego book distributor, stopped reporting in August 2003--in advance of the date Sarbox kicked in but amid the Enron fallout.
Nikhil Hutheesing , editor of the Forbes Wireless Stock Watch, has it on his "buy" list, along with mobile-phone distributor Cellstar (nasdaq: CLST - news - people ), which trades at 13 times forward earnings.
Some now fear Microsoft could play that game after open-source software distributor Novell (nasdaq: NOVL - news - people ) struck a sales and marketing pact with Microsoft last year.
Egbert said Citrix may be targeting original equipment manufacturers like NEC (nasdaq: NIPNY - news - people ), the company's largest distributor, and Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ).
Of course, sommeliers are invited to play golf as well some I know have even been taken on private planes to Burgundy by their best customers. (No, I won't be naming names.) And both retailers and sommeliers have been known to accept importer- or distributor-sponsored trips to visit key producers, whose wines will presumably end up on wine lists and store shelves.
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During their monthly consulting sessions in the early 1970s, Peter Drucker and Mort Mandel, the then-CEO of electronics and auto-parts distributor Premier Industrial Corp.
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When a product is manufactured in a high-cost country, shipped to China and subjected to a distributor mark-up, the end result is a very high landed price.
Already, Guthy-Renker has a presence in 61 countries, a combination of distributor relationships and eight owned-and-operated businesses in Japan, China, Australia, India, Sweden, Germany, Finland and England.
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After Toshoku, a Tokyo-based food distributor, went bankrupt late last year, U.S.-based Cargill stepped in with financial support and reportedly aims to take over the Japanese firm.
Within 18 months it cut its national-distributor partners from 8 to 3, but added 40 provincial distributors as well as its own direct-sales force of 5, 000.
The U.S. Attorney's Office now blames six ex-Anicom executives for sinking the former Rosemont, Ill. distributor of cable, wire, networking and fiber-optic parts.
To match that, Sony has partnered with OverDrive, a distributor of e-books to libraries, to offer its customers easy access to the local library's collection of e-books.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) announced a pact with Linux software distributor Xandros Monday that will the offer tiny company's customers so-called "patent covenants, " protecting them from the threat of litigation from Microsoft.
The former CEO of Arrow Electronics (nyse: ARW - news - people ), a distributor of computer products, Kaufman now teaches innovation courses at Harvard's Business School with Forbes.com columnist Clayton Christensen.
"Brazil is growing so much, " says Danie Tangchai, head of U.S. operations for LJ International (nasdaq: JADE - news - people ), a designer and distributor of fine jewelry.
Other buys for the Marketocracy gurus last week included Chiquita Brands International (nyse: CQB - news - people ), an international marketer and distributor of fresh food products.
The film also received money from the film's UK distributor Momentum and the London-based post-production company Molinaire.
The distributor, New York-based FilmBuff, which specializes in VOD releases, hasn't yet finalized the date with broadband and cable providers.
This will take the company's arm there from being primarily a distributor of Huntsman North American-made products to being a domestic manufacturer.
Retaining ownership of his brand, O'Neal signed an agreement with ACI International, a Los Angeles distributor and marketer of Chinese-made-footwear labels like LA Gear.
The company showed videos of distributor-run nutrition clubs, which Ackman unfairly belittled in his December presentation as far as Herbalife President Desmond Walsh is concerned.
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That's one reason David Riedel of Riedel Research is recommending shares of Mexico's Grupo Modelo, brewer of Corona beer and distributor of Anheuser-Busch, Tsingtao and Carlsberg in Mexico.
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