In terms of breadth and depth, IBM has no rival, but HP comes closer than any other technology provider.
Now that Mr Dewar has seen off Robin Cook, the foreign secretary, he has no rival for the job of first secretary (ie, Scottish prime minister) of the new administration.
Unlike Mr Giscard d'Estaing, who had to run against Mr Chirac as well as facing Mitterrand, he has no centre-right rival.
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While it has struck a deal with Microsoft to allow user data to power its Bing search engine, it has made no such arrangement with rival Google.
Unlike its larger rival, Komatsu has no equipment parked outside its dealerships.
UBS, its big Swiss bank rival, which has no insurance group attached, files under both American and international standards and has recently enjoyed a much more stable share price (see chart).
Marussia's closest rival is the Caterham team that has scored no points since joining in 2010.
Strand says the company has no plans to dive into the smartphone market, as rival Garmin did (with mixed results).
On the other hand, Roche, a Swiss rival to Novartis, has said that it sees no future in entering the generics market.
Meanwhile, rival Mazda Motor Corp. (No. 44) has already gone down the reform road - and is reaping benefits.
Monte dei Paschi, seeking to staunch an outpouring of allegations surrounding its request for a second state bailout, has admitted the use of derivatives forced it to demand extra help but insisted that it has "no evidence" that bribes were behind the costly acquisition of a local rival that undermined its capital strength.
An HGS rival, Incyte, has shared genomics secrets with most major drug firms, but no resulting drugs have yet entered early trials.
The rival consortium was headed up by chief executive Peter Storrie but Al Fahim says he has no problems continuing to work with him.
At the Star, a hitherto also-ran among supermarket tabloids, Ms Fuller's strategy has been to do celebrity journalism better than the rest (unlike rival People magazine, there is no space given to ordinary people).
He will now start to add to the record 623 weeks he has spent on top of the golfing world, a tally which is nearly double that of his nearest rival, with Australian Greg Norman racking up 331 weeks, while no other player has broken the 100-week barrier.
Pepsi has fallen to second place in the U.S. soda market, yielding the No. 1 spot to chief rival Coca-Cola. (It also competes with firms like Dr Peppper Snapple Group and Monster Beverage.) Pepsi shares have sagged in recent years, too.
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