Some franchises in smaller markets are relatively weak and unable to afford high-priced players.
Another 2-3 million can come from potential expansion into other smaller markets in Latin America.
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The smaller markets have fewer customers, of course, but they also have a lot less competition.
In smaller markets, getting on friendly terms with the competition also can be good for business.
The average McDonald's in most smaller markets like Argentina, Indonesia and Spain has reached its tenth birthday.
But divestitures in smaller markets ought to go a long way toward assuaging genuine concerns about market concentration.
The average McDonald's in most smaller markets, such as Argentina, Indonesia and Spain, has reached its tenth birthday.
Right now, big-market teams have an advantage over those in smaller markets because of the disparity in television contracts.
Smaller markets tend to breed more loyal and rabid fanbases (especially with favorable history and frequent success on your side).
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Other, smaller markets with strong growth included Venezuela, where spending grew by 31%, and Poland, where spending was up by 19%.
The iShares family of ETFs, for example, offers funds that focus on smaller markets such as Malaysia, Chile, Singapore and South Africa.
It will expand into smaller markets like Peru and Singapore this weekend.
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But chances are that those smaller markets, like the one I used to live in, would have to shut off the lights.
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Two smaller markets are for people living in relatively unpopulated corners of the globe who need a basic mobile service or semi-fixed pay-phones.
That is, of course, the irony, since those smaller markets are the very ones that PBS was intended to serve when it was created.
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Some smaller markets have even managed to swim against the tidal wave of global selling in the first few weeks of the year--no easy feat.
This will result in smaller markets but better and safer pills.
Smaller markets aren't always covered by the financial press and if you ask your broker for some research on Kazakhstan you might get a blank stare.
Shanghai authorities moved Friday to destroy thousands of birds, ordering the closure of wholesale poultry markets and instructing vendors in smaller markets to immediately cull their chicken populations.
Anecdotally at least, the evidence suggests that in the smaller markets most susceptible to monopolization, where Clear Channel has its strongest presence, diversity has actually increased as ownership consolidated.
Shanghai authorities moved Friday to trim the city's bird population, ordering the closure of wholesale poultry markets and instructing vendors in smaller markets to immediately cull their remaining chickens.
Chase, which has launched the tests in some of its smaller markets such as northern Wisconsin and Atlanta, is one of the first banks to explore monthly fees on debit cards.
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Diversified and China funds continued to attract the bulk of the new money, but some fund groups dedicated to smaller markets such as Colombia, the Philippines and Vietnam also fared well.
Wealthy owners certainly carry more value in smaller markets.
Since Lowe's had always operated in smaller markets, it had to learn how to distribute merchandise more efficiently than Home Depot, whose individual stores get nearly all of of their goods directly from manufacturers.
Smaller markets either are more desperate to be part of the big show (i.e. pro sports) or realize that pro teams in small markets are likely to be a bigger part of the social fabric.
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While the radio show can survive the loss of the smaller markets in the Buckley group, in my experience, it is highly unlikely that a radio program can long survive the loss of New York.
In smaller markets, sports truly has the ability to shape the local fabric of the community more so than in larger markets where commerce, theatre, and high-flying nightlife may place sports on a lower rung of importance.
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Silver and copper are smaller markets, but their adherents argue that the industrial demands for the shiny stuff by nations that must build out their infrastructure products such as the fast speed transportation system in China or the ports of India, Thailand another emerging markets clearly suggest a shortage of silver and copper, possibly iron ore as well.
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For most Chinese companies, the domestic market is already so big and dynamic, the additional revenues offered by investing in smaller markets in the Gulf fail to justify the difficulty of operating there, according to Ben Simpfendorfer, an economist and author of The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China.
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