Under a U.S. license, GE is supplying medical equipments to private hospitals via a local distributor in Yangon, the largest city.

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He had spent time doing marketing for a local grocery distributor.

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Once upon a time, a local beer distributor could hook up with a stadium concessionaire like Aramark or Levy and get his brand added to the mix.

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The NCVO said its survey found the majority of people wanted the distributor to remain independent of national and local government.

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Lim Teck, managing director of Singaporean producer and distributor Clover Films, said China has become so lucrative that local studios don't need to think about other markets.

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At an evening meeting she watched BigSmart distributor Jeff Fournier brag of leaving a six-figure job with a local mortgage company to make some serious bucks.

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To match that, Sony has partnered with OverDrive, a distributor of e-books to libraries, to offer its customers easy access to the local library's collection of e-books.

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