It has become the single largest restaurant chain in China, with nearly 2, 600 restaurants in over 550 cities.
In general terms, a change in your genome sequence can mean a small alteration, like removing or adding a single link in a chain, or it can mean a structural change involving bigger chunks, like removing or adding whole sections of the chain.
While it is one of Coke's largest single customers, the convenience chain has a secret weapon.
None of it has been previously exhibited in Venice except for a single silver painting of a chain-link fence.
These include the single fastest-growing retail chain in any sector, Sprouts Farmers Market, which doubled in size in the past year.
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It offers simultaneous bi-directional 10Gbps transfer speeds over a single cable, with the flexibility to daisy-chain up to six Thunderbolt-ready devices with a single connection as well as offering full display port support for a 7th Thunderbolt or display port equipped monitor.
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This means that as additional activities are outsourced, the supply chain turns from a single integrated process, performed within the boundaries of traditional corporations, to a fragmented and disintegrated process, a collection of separate and disjointed activities performed across several independent subcontractors.
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This means that as more and more activities are outsourced, the supply chain turns from a single integrated process performed within the boundaries of traditional corporations to a fragmented and disintegrated process, a collection of separate and disjointed activities, performed across several independent subcontractors.
With a flexible operation, Niagara can do minimum private-label orders of 20, 000 bottles, supplying a chain of Costcos or a single casino.
Joel Kotkin, of Pepperdine University, points out that today not a single major bank, department-store chain or telecoms company calls the nation's second-largest city its home.
Few hotel companies beside Starwood's W chain have ever tried to turn a single boutique hotel into a minichain.
Its properties are primarily free-standing, single tenant buildings occupied by well-known national chain restaurants, auto-parts stores, and convenience stores.
Few hotel companies beside Starwood (nyse: HOT - news - people )'s W chain have ever tried to turn a single boutique hotel into a minichain.
Jere Thompson Jr. had the experience of watching his father and uncle drive the family's 7-Eleven empire -- a worldwide convenience-store chain that his grandfather started with a single Dallas icehouse in 1927 -- into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990.
And he branched out by launching the Golf House retail chain in 1986 and pursued partnerships to open single-brand stores for such makers of active-lifestyle clothing as Lacoste, Billabong and Quiksilver.
Every single person in a company is a valuable piece of the chain.
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Single-entity recognition might give credit-card networks and chain restaurants additional leverage over their employees and customers.
Of Sir Cliff's total, 95% were bought on CD single from Woolworths branches after he struck a deal with the chain to stock the song.
Some Midwestern movie fans will soon be able to go online and order both a gourmet pizza and their favorite flick, then get them both delivered by a single driver, thanks to a creative new initiative from Midwestern chain Family Video.
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Daniel Himsworth, a spokesman for Woolworths, said that copies of Leon's single were selling at the rate of 40-per-minute at the chain.
Ms McPhie said research by one major pub chain had found St George's Day was now its busiest single-day celebration, behind St Patrick's Day and Mother's Day.
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Mixing it up reduces the chances that you are getting too much of a single contaminant, he says, adding that the lower one eats on the food chain, the less of an impact one has.
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a scientific technique in molecular biology to amplify a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
But I'm starting to wonder whether the ECB - and the single currency - might be better off if it were more beholden to politicians, with a clear chain of accountability from democratically elected governments.
One of the largest single-piece mailers outside of the U.S. government, Harte-Hanks also operates a chain of weekly shoppers, the last connection to its roots as a publisher.
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