Companies and trade bodies are taking legal action in China and against distributors in their home markets.
Mr. Marsh recruited a network of more than 300 bottlers and distributors in all 50 states.
The Federal Trade Commission has received 136 complaints against Herbalife and its distributors in the past two years.
Buying more local food distributors in the fragmented U.S. market is another possibility.
Several of these men, including Mr Trimble, are now taking action against the book's distributors in the United States.
These assistance centers provide export and industry specialists who can help businesses locate appropriate distributors in their target markets.
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Their strategy was simple: Find the most influential retailers, restaurants and distributors in every city and convince them to carry Ferrand.
The company also owns Reinhart FoodService, one of the largest food service distributors in the U.S. Chris and Jude are co-chairmen.
Deutsch, thanks to its lock on the popular French brand Georges Duboeuf, was able to provide access through distributors in 44 states.
The plan is to drive long term growth through the acquisition of distributors in Malaysia and Korea and by investing in its digital capabilities.
The melons were sold to distributors in 18 states along the East Coast and in the Midwest but may have been resold in other states.
We believe the connected TV could hit Apple stores and distributors in the second half of 2012, and based on our checks, Sharp is ramping production of the sets.
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On XanGo's 30-acre campus in Utah, XanGo executives, tan from a recent distributors' rally in Cancun, won't disclose how much mangosteen goes into each bottle, or how much they pay for the fruit, which sells for a few cents each in places like Thailand and Puerto Rico.
It continues to be available in many markets through retail, distributors and carrier partners such as Optus in Australia.
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Indeed, Sony did do a low-key launch for the PlayStation 2 in China in January 2004, but only in two cities instead of five as originally planned, thus upsetting many distributors and gamers in the neglected regions.
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The aftermarket auto parts business has been accustomed to selling to small distributors who in turn sell to service stations.
The juicy claims about mangosteens curing this or that are made further down, by 800, 000 distributors, in face-to-face conversations and on the Web.
Consequently, the prime concern of manufacturers in becoming their own distributors is to ensure that they have access to their consumers.
In most cases, distributors have sales teams that are already on the ground selling soap and other household goods, and add D.
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The deregulated U.K. market offered stability and attractive growth, but Nye wasn't interested in the regional electricity distributors that other utilities were buying.
Viacom can afford to, in essence, pay distributors to carry some of its channels because it makes the money back and then some on advertising.
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Capstone's turbines piled up in the warehouses of distributors such as Cinergy (nyse: CIN - news - people ), Sumitomo and others as high-tech buyers went bust.
In addition to pursuing sales of the Pixo in the developing world through 90 distributors, Dickinson sees plenty of opportunity for the machine in food safety and research labs in the U.S. Academic researchers must often wait to get time on a lab's PCR machine.
At the moment, downloading a song at hi-fi quality over the Internet can take several times as long as playing it, but a number of small companies have set up as online distributors, in the hope that Internet connections will get faster in the next few years.
In Patchogue, Machlovitz, who oversees 7, 000 distributors, is eager to reel in a few more.
If a label does not have good physical distribution, or if its distributors are not active in digital distribution, it must determine whether or not to use one or more aggregators (digital distributors).
The ruling also forbade the studios and distributors to intervene in ticket pricing by the theaters.
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The system inspires distributors to believe in the beverage, or at least to say they believe.
Growers and distributors have invested in "ripe rooms, " where temperature, humidity and air flow are all regulated.
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