Its once-proud RCA was the world's main supplier of TVs in the 1940s and 1950s.
America, the main supplier of peace formulas until lately, is distracted by local concerns.
Its main supplier is the state forestry firm, which used its monopoly to raise prices.
Cirrus Logic is believed to be the main supplier of audio chips for the iPhone and iPad.
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At least Point One's main supplier, Ascend, understood how IP was turning the phone business upside down.
The main supplier of fuel to the Western Isles has written to customers offering to release them from contracts if they want to use another supplier.
Shares of Akzo Nobel climbed by 3% to 42.60 euros on Wednesday after the Dutch paint maker announced that it had agreed to become Wal-Mart Stores' main supplier of interior and exterior paints at more than 3, 500 outlets in the United States.
It hoped it had got rid of a large chunk of problems when it spun off Delphi in 1999 and was less responsive to its main supplier's pleas for help than was Ford (which agreed to take over some less attractive plants from Visteon).
Breedon however has noticed that when payment terms are accelerated at the top of the chain - when for example the government pays promptly - there is a benefit to the supplier dealing directly with the end buyer, but not necessarily to those smaller companies sitting below the main supplier.
But FERC also soiled the proverbial carpet by blaming the state in part for the crisis that led to economic calamity and rolling blackouts in areas served by its main power supplier.
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.
Their argument is that the main driver of price spikes is something hardly mentioned these days: a miscalculation by the world's most important supplier, Saudi Arabia.
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