Last August, it rolled out the first of a chain of VidyaGyan Schools that are aimed at poor, rural children in collaboration with the government of Uttar Pradesh state.
Since the idea of the value chain was first introduced, it has been taken in a number of different directions.
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His main target was Sergei Lisovsky, a 36-year-old advertising man who made his first fortune from a chain of Moscow discotheques.
It is the first serious eruption of the volcano chain since 1960, when the area was hit by a massive earthquake.
The foreclosure mills, as one would expect, were the first to spot the broken chain of titles.
The first group of islands in the Bahamas chain, Bimini -- with the small islands of North Bimini and South Bimini at its core -- is only about 50 miles from Miami, but the slow-and-easy lifestyle on the historic atoll feels like a world away.
The region where these differences first become noticeable lies just south of a chain of mountains called the Vindhya.
That documentation could then help the police trace a gun through the chain of possession from first retail sale by a licensed dealer.
Dole is building one of Japan's first "cold chain" produce networks.
His fellow party member Aled Roberts AM stressed the importance of first time buyers in the property chain as he said that there is "no point hoping people will climb the property ladder if the bottom rung is missing".
Sollecito published a book last year, the first by someone directly involved in the chain of events sparked by the discovery of Kercher's body.
Founded in Leicester in 1935 by Frank Jessop, the camera chain became the first High Street casualty of 2013.
The most famous restaurants that serve Peking duck though, are part of the Quanjude Restaurant chain, which first opened in 1864.
Check Into Cash, a Tennessee-based pay-day lending company, opened its first store in 1993 and now operates a chain of 432 stores in 16 states, including more than 30 in Illinois.
The 210-room Hotel Indigo, part of the IHG chain, is the first LEED-certified hotel in downtown San Diego and offers guests free wi-fi, hypo-allergenic hardwood floors and windows that open to the great outdoors in all rooms.
"There is a massive gap between where we are and where we could be, " says Dr. Brent James, a vice president at Intermountain Health Care in Salt Lake City, a big hospital chain that was one of the first to focus on systemic quality improvements.
Yet with little pause for reflection, his reward has been a very lucrative continuing career, first as chief executive of Alliance Boots, the chemists' chain, and now in charge at Gala Coral, the leisure and bookmaker chain.
First of all, it ignores the fact that the value chain is connected to the environment, that resources are being extracted at the upstream end and that consumers are dumping their used products back into the environment at the downstream end.
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His concern appears to be that evolution requires an unbroken chain of viable genetic variants that connect the first living creature to, say, human beings.
The restaurant chain had already opened 123 in the first three quarters of 2012.
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He was famous during his playing days for epic battles with Swedish great Jan-Ove Waldner, the first table-tennis millionaire who at one point owned a chain of bars in China.
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In 1976 he opened the first of what would become seven locations in his Pinball Pete's arcade chain.
It was in a University of Chicago squash court that Enrico Fermi set off the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942.
First, the country dodged the hedge fund speculation that set off a chain of currency crises across Asia in the late 1990s.
Shares of the department store chain dropped 23.3% in the first quarter.
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While the 2010 holiday shopping season had yet to occur, one could see the supply chain begin to ramp up as early as the first calendar quarter of 2010.
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Sony's Los Angeles store is the first in a series that is expected to replace the company's existing chain of retail shops, called Sony Style.
Technical winemaking improvements will come first, of course, but the final improvements will take longer because they involve the entire supply chain.
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