The company has increased sales and maintained 10% operating margins in the distribution business by developing an innovative modular approach to selling molds, which are usually custom-made.
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Most of the problem that we got ourselves into would be solved by eliminating bilateral clearing, centrally clearing these instruments and then using exchanges or other mechanisms who are in the data distribution business already to report the transactions that are taking place.
On the question of the role Netflix plays in the movie distribution business, Dunn has mixed feelings.
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Companies in the learning distribution business, such as privately held Knowledge Planet , Saba (nasdaq: SABA - news - people)and Paul Allen 's Click2Learn (nasdaq: CLKS - news - people) on the other hand, hail MIT's plan as proof of the validity of their efforts.
The restructuring split the feed-distribution business in China between the newly formed East Hope Group, owned by Liu Yongxing, and the South Hope Group, controlled by Liu Yonghao.
First, COFCO is in the wine business and has national distribution in China with its Great Wall brand.
"I stated in April that the recent expansion activity in the group, the relocation of distribution facilities and the resolution of the stock and property issues in the Blacks business would impact results in the short term, " said JD executive chairman Peter Cowgill.
They not only help fill the capital void but also often give startups access to the business expertise in manufacturing and distribution to take a small company to scale.
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The company said the split would be in the form of a tax-free distribution of the domain business to holders.
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Mr Kononov, who emigrated from Kazakhstan to Russia in 1994, made his first fortune in the seamy business of petrol distribution, and is now growing tomatoes and peppers on 2, 800 hectares of previously idle land.
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The chief of Kynikos Associates warned that the video game retailer is in a business being destroyed by digital distribution as the cost of transmitting and storing bits of information heads toward zero.
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While it works on the producer end of the business, Dole continues its inroads in the distribution end.
Good's executives say that the new distribution model is a huge step in expanding the company's business.
Berkeley, he got into the software distribution business and his Softbank company became the top distributor in Japan.
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One of the most exciting things in American business has been the creativity of manufacturers in building new distribution networks.
But then the price of the edible oils used in many of its products--the Achilles' heel of the food distribution business--started gyrating.
At home, Reliance is a heavyweight in the movie business, involved in production, distribution and exhibition, among much else.
The new relationships include both financial backing and business agreements that demonstrate the industry's confidence in Roku as the distribution platform to bring streaming entertainment to mainstream consumers.
The firm, which employs more than 24, 000 workers in the UK, announced 400 job losses in its distribution business, on 6 November.
BBH's strategy is to buy more breweries and to gain as much control as possible of distribution (the alcohol wholesale business in Russia is at best messy, and at worst outright criminal).
And the newspaper companies' tribulations do not necessarily presage the demise of the news business, for they stem in part from the tumultuous and expensive transition from paper to electronic distribution.
The firm, which employs more than 24, 000 workers in the UK, also announced 400 job losses in its distribution business, on 6 November.
But individual investors such as Eric Brehm, owner of a medical-supply distribution business in Sunnyvale, Texas, were in the dark.
After running a computer distribution business, he spent ten years living in the vacation home of an employer who visited about once a month.
Wholesale and retail distribution firms, on the other hand, experienced steeper declines in business than expected by companies in the previous survey.
While the stock price has doubled over the past year (it will split 2-for-1 in late May), Longbow Research's David S. MacGregor likes that the company is active in the growing South and that it operates both a recycling business and a global distribution operation that can offset downturns in domestic steel demand.
The Japanese company on Thursday also said it would launch its e-book reader in Japan by the end of this year and set up an e-book content distribution business with three local companies to solve previous problems with distribution.
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They put many tiny mom-and-pop health-food stores out of business, and seemed to have no competitor in applying the principles of mass distribution to the world of healthier, gourmet food.
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Gemfields primary business is the mining, distribution and marketing of emeralds from the Kagem mine in Zambia.
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