Aldi and Trader Joe's, two chains owned by a German trust, are the exception.
Many of the two chains' stores compete in the same markets, making them an obvious target for cost cuts.
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At their current prices, investors are valuing the two chains equally.
Tenet also passed on a report from a company called Capital Group LLC that argues that the two chains are too different to work together in a merger.
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The weaker of the two chains could ultimately fail.
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Unlike many other deals of recent vintage, the leaders of the two office chains are not necessarily joining forces to run the combined business.
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The threat that one of two big chains might disappear was met with concern about the loss of jobs and the atrophy of inner cities.
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There is only one reason why these two hospital chains are linking arms: to force insurers and patients to accept higher prices for their services.
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Of the two biggest chains, one (Movie Gallery) went out of business, and the other (Blockbuster Video, now owned by Dish Network) is struggling to survive.
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Last year it bought two retail chains in Mexico, and in January it bought most of a Brazilian company, saying it furthered its strategy to expand its business in South America.
Target and Lowe's are two major chains that have already rolled it out companywide in the U.S. It's just that when you're the biggest player on the block, everything you do will draw reaction.
It has shown up in testing done on milk and yogurt, prompting at least two supermarket chains in Hong Kong to pull dairy products by Mengniu and Yili from store shelves, representatives from the companies told CNN Friday.
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Aside from convenience stores and some niche sellers, the territory's supermarket business is controlled by two huge chains: Park'n Shop, the stores owned by Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa Group, and Wellcome, which belongs to Asia's biggest grocer, Jardine Matheson-controlled Dairy Farm.
Freddo and Persicco, the two most popular chains, are known for their high-quality products.
The only competition is two local burger chains with fewer than 100 stores each.
China's Internet is sprouting travel sites and numerous bookstores, Hong Kong's two major grocery chains offer Internet shopping, Singapore and Thailand sport online department stores.
Gome and Suning, the two biggest electronics chains, offer discounts online.
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With two other movie chains in bankruptcy, and three more reportedly lurching toward it, Anschutz will have a hard time earning a return on his investment anytime soon.
Aldi and Lidl, two German discount chains which have won customers across Europe, are family businesses, as are Colruyt, a Belgian one, and Netto, a pan-European one which is owned by A.P.
What they had actually done was describe the way in which two long chemical chains wound up around each other to encode the information cells need to build and maintain our bodies.
So Steiner did what the entrepreneurs he often wrote about did: he went out and got funding from seed-funding VC firm YCombinator for a technology he believes can bring customers back to the stores and he signed up two grocery store chains to test out his idea.
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The Port of Jersey has agreed to return the pontoon in the spring and maintain the mooring chains for two years.
Can two also-ran burger chains that struggled through the recession win over Wall Street investors?
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U.S. retailers of all stripes super-sized their stores over the past two decades after big-box chains demonstrated the benefits of being larger than the competition.
If a modest recovery continues in the U.S., top casual-dining chains stand to prosper and having two good brands is gold for a franchisor.
Proponents of the so-called alternate engine have never made a very convincing case for why the government benefits from paying for two design teams, production lines, supply chains and maintenance systems.
Two of the world's best boutique luxury hotel chains, Aman Resorts and Como Resorts, have multiple lodges here set up for logistically easy - and decadent - explorations of Bhutan.
East Ayrshire Council Museum Service has two similar links from another of Burns' original surveying chains, and a handle from one of his chains is held in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum.
Its size, meanwhile, is letting Couche-Tard get better supplier deals and set up more distribution centers, either wholly owned or in partnership with a convenience store wholesaler, such as Warren Buffett's McLane in the eastern U.S. The centers give Bouchard the ability to ship dairy products, sandwiches and pastries to stores two to three times a week to outflank the grocery chains.
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