Strategic partnerships can be made with raw material suppliers, research firms, engineering firms, distributors, marketers or installers.

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Or they may work with their raw material suppliers to shift production to degraded lands, diverting pressure to develop virgin forests.

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Anchor customers often are significant value chain participants, such as large material suppliers, or original equipment manufacturers with a major position in a particular market.

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The defendants schemed with each other, raw material suppliers and certain lenders to flood the U.S. market with solar panels at below-cost prices, the Fremont, California-based company said in the complaint.

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This applies if you paid off a lien placed against your property by material suppliers because of debts owed by a builder or contractor, and you made the payment so as to avoid foreclosure and loss of your property.

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Aprimo lets users log in key variables--names of suppliers, material costs, deadlines--into clean-looking screen templates customized for particular campaigns.

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The firm had armed its sales staff with deliberately misleading sales material to use on the doorstep to persuade other firm's customers into switching suppliers.

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