Sun Fei, the manager of a 230-room branch of Motel 168, a privately-owned chain, says he has only 60 parking spaces.
Pawel Szalamacha, the dynamic deputy privatisation minister, says that Ruch, the sleepy state-owned chain of newspaper kiosks, will be restructured and sold this summer.
In the early 1980s, when a crime wave threatened to wipe out Jamaica's tourist industry, it was rescued by Sandals, a locally-owned chain, which marketed its all-inclusive hotels as a safe way to visit the island.
Mr. Duncan represents Hobby Lobby, a family-owned retail chain risking severe penalties for putting principles before profits.
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Son of Sam Newhouse, Russian immigrant's son who turned Bayonne Times into Advance Publications, nation's largest privately owned newspaper chain.
"The only retailer that I know of that is recycling is IKEA, " she says, referring to the Swedish-owned furniture chain store.
He was famous during his playing days for epic battles with Swedish great Jan-Ove Waldner, the first table-tennis millionaire who at one point owned a chain of bars in China.
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Bias, after his release from prison, had formed a five-state network of salesmen to find investors to fund restaurant REITs managed by the shell company he had created--FIIK. He also controlled Richmond Energy in Houston, which owned a chain of Mexican restaurants.
The brothers got their first break in 1985 when Emporium Holdings, a Chinese-owned department store chain, went into receivership.
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She has also launched her own fragrance, co-owned a restaurant chain, published her own novel and even had a record in the Japanese charts.
The second-party gift-card market that Tango was trying to crack is primarily controlled by two companies: InComm and Blackhawk Network, the latter owned by supermarket chain Safeway.
When the means of production were expensive and the barriers to entry high, having a dad who owned a newspaper chain or a billboard company was a pretty good way to get a running start in the media business.
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The combined company is 52%-owned by German retail chain KarstadtQuelle, which was the parent of Thomas Cook, and 48%-owned by the shareholders of MyTravel.
Its 67%-owned Wal-Mex chain, Mexico's biggest retailer, soon will begin offering savings accounts, debit cards and checking at its 632 stores.
Mr Mills, it was alleged, had owned shares in a chain of pubs when Ms Jowell was a junior health minister debating smoking bans.
In early 2003 they signed up Hannaford Brothers, a northeastern grocery chain (owned by Delhaize Group), and the town of Fairfield, Conn. to five-year deals.
The sports chain is owned by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley.
By 19 he was an assistant manager at the Albertsons chain, owned a house and was making more than his father had ever made as a schoolteacher.
The once-dominant retail chain, owned by Dish Network, has been closing stores since Dish bought it out of bankruptcy and is down to fewer than 1000 locations.
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The government's answer to years of persistent inflation has been price controls and Mercal, a state-owned and subsidised grocery chain that offers a limited selection of staples at discounts of up to 40%.
Before joining Playboy, Mr. Flanders served as CEO of Freedom Communications, a newspaper chain partly owned by private equity that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a few months after he left in 2009.
On November 24th, a few days after the Japanese-owned Yaohan department store chain in Hong Kong went bust, word hit the streets that the St Honore Cake Shop chain was about to follow suit.
In early 2003 they signed up Hannaford Brothers, a northeastern grocery chain (owned by Delhaize Group (nyse: DEG - news - people )), and the town of Fairfield, Conn. to five-year deals.
The business started shifting away from stocking streams to stocking store shelves in the 1970s, when Giant Food, a Landover, Md. grocery chain now owned by the Dutch group Royal Ahold, started buying its fillets.
The brothers sold their company to Kmart Corp. in 1992, which already owned the Waldenbooks mall bookstore chain.
Here in Britain the low-cost grocery chain Asda, owned by Wal-Mart, has been underperforming relative to the rest of the supermarket industry.
Vital Voices and WEConnect International, for example, are developing a commitment with private companies to enable women-owned businesses along their supply chain.
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Here are some ideas, as recommended by India resort hotel chain Taj, owned by The Tata Group, and by boutique Brazil-based travel planners at Dehouche.
Mr. Dhanin's bid for the membership-based discount chain he himself owned until the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s would be Asia's biggest merger so far this year.
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