But Atul maintains that the oil companies that are Punj's main customers are financially sound.
The members who owned it were also its main customers, many of whose interests conflicted.
As recently as a year ago, wholesalers of telecoms capacity were the market's main customers.
It is trying to extract higher prices for gas from its two main customers, Brazil and Argentina.
"Our main customers are moms with kids, " says Fred Meyer spokesperson Melinda Merrill.
At the time Akamai's main customers were free-spending dot-coms that wanted Akamai to make their Web pages load more quickly.
Historically, firms such as Monsanto and Syngenta, which had their origins in agrochemicals, saw farmers, not shoppers, as their main customers.
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First Solar, a solar-panel company in Arizona that went public last year, counts a handful of German firms as its main customers.
Traders say neighbouring Chinese restaurants and markets are the market's main customers.
The New Wave website lists 27 retailers as its main customers.
But in its recent economic review, Britain's Cabinet Office noted that the financial benefits that might accrue to British farmers from planting, say, herbicide-resistant oilseed rape are unlikely to compensate for the lack of a market should their main customers shun the stuff.
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Tidemark has three main corporate customers right now, led by U.S. Sugar.
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The move is sure to undermine Germany's brand of capitalism, dominated by commercial banks that not only lend to their main corporate customers, but also own them and sit on their boards.
The enthusiasm for technology innovation as the main premise for winning customers is one of the greatest myths of the high technology culture.
Adversarial relationships between customers, main contractors and sub-contractors mean that design changes often cause rows and that problems are not tackled until they reach crisis proportions.
The foreign-owned supplier giants are joining their main European and Asian customers in the U.S. Last year these companies built 4 million cars in the U.S., up from 3.2 million in 2002.
Along with California-based innovator SunRun, SolarCity offers homeowners a creative solution to the main obstacle facing prospective solar customers: the larger up-front investment.
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This issue has slipped to fourth place, while attracting new customers is now the main concern.
And, you can rest assured that their customers really are their main concern.
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If Travelocity does not have access to the cheapest fares, customers will lose the main incentive for using its site.
The main feature of Vodafone Radio DJ allows customers to "train" the pre-programmed radio channels to their own personal taste by pressing a button to indicate that they "like" or "dislike" a song.
The website will be the main vehicle for the startup to educate potential customers about solar energy.
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That reflected declining sales on main shopping streets and at shopping centers as customers chose to shop online.
Scottish Power said it hoped to restore power to most customers on Sunday night either by the main lines or by generator.
Standardizing interest rates is something that could help Main Street, and would force institutions to treat customers as people, not numbers when dealing with current market rates and existing relationships.
As a sponsorship vehicle, Cup racing already has big advantages over many sports: Companies can use the boats as floating billboards--technology and teamwork are the main messages--but they can also take customers and employees out for spins.
The main British package-holiday operators have already stopped flying customers to Mexico.
It means that, while Web sites were supposed to steal customers from their old-line predecessors on Main Street, many focus on raiding online shoppers from rivals.
Revenue in the firm's main insurance division, which covers Irish as well as British customers, rose by 7%.
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Every small business on main street had a TV and employees, business owners and customers were gathered around the televisions watching their favorite little league teams.
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