Penney stake and regime change have been a more pathetic boondoggle than any Herbalife distributorship.

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Returning to an expanded and formalized family business in Karachi and Lahore in 1995, he turned it into a distributorship for Sony and Panasonic.

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She and her husband pioneered a direct-to-spa and salon business model that took on the distributorship status quo in the United States.

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Flowers is president and CEO of the Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank, which now operates out of what once was a beer distributorship.

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Mr. Riddell, for his part, doesn't anticipate any time soon a robotic future that deprives his distributorship of its customer base of traditional window cleaners.

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Within hours, Robert had decided on his next business: a distributorship for clunky, black Doc Martens shoes and boots, around since 1945 and newly popularized by grunge fashion.

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With its real-estate holdings and liquor distributorship, the Wirtz family has owned the Blackhawks for generations, but until recently, Rocky Wirtz had little to do with the team.

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He had the smarts or luck or combination thereof to hold the exclusive distributorship for Budweiser beer in the huge LA market when that brand was truly king.

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The Maloofs have since sold their Coors beer distributorship, and the crushing debt on the Palms forced the family to turn over controlling interests of the Las Vegas casino to creditors.

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They lost the distributorship the next year.

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