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Farmers often form cooperatives, reform communities or put together processing and marketing agreements to cut costs.
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"The idea is to free up resources to reinvest in our growth...to move resources away from production and processing to marketing, sales, product development and reinvest in these activities, " said chief executive Talwar.
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Energy Transfer Partners is involved in natural gas processing, transportation and marketing operations.
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Earlier this year Granite set up an Internet site and bought a cheque-scanning machine to cut processing costs and help with marketing.
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Volkswagen's operations in the United States include research and development, parts and vehicle processing, parts distribution centers, sales, marketing and service offices, financial service centers, and its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Roughly 4.1 million people are directly employed in production agriculture as farmers, ranchers and laborers, but the industry directly or indirectly employs approximately one out of six American workers, including those working in food processing, marketing, shipping and supermarkets.
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Along with the explosion in mobile technology to support commerce, startups like LevelUp have begun disrupting the payments market by offering free payment processing in return for paid loyalty and marketing services, showing that we are quickly moving into an age where the value of payment data exceeds the value of transaction fees.
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Crosstex Energy is a partnership that engages in midstream natural gas and crude oil businesses including gathering, processing, transmitting and distributing natural gas, plus crude and gas marketing.
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This was democracy: producers running everything themselves, the selling, the processing and, most of all, the marketing.
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Third parties are often used for marketing, records processing, application development, QA and other types of outsourcing.
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