Today Vega's 25 trucks and jeeps fan out across the continent from four coastal distribution centers to a network of village market centers.
On tiny plots, and often poor-quality soil, without modern equipment or farming methods, and sometimes beset by land disputes, many peasant farmers struggle to feed their family and grow just a little extra to sell in the village market.
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So McDonald believes his mentor Buffett would also like Village Super Market.
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The three-wheeler men inevitably insisted on a cheap, dependable truck that could go from village to market carrying, say, 200 chickens, a ton of onions or potatoes, or 2, 000 eggs.
Guests rate four of Choice's hotel chains as about average and three as below average in quality, according to Westlake Village, Calif. market research firm J.
For now they have to pay market rates at the village's private clinics.
It used to take place in a muddy open field next to a horse-trading market in a small village, until police moved it into the city this year to avoid tension between the two pursuits.
Over 60, 000 people make a living in Tsukiji, including auctioneers, stevedores, porters, clerks, traders at the 1, 700-odd firms of intermediate wholesalers and a raft of trades knifemakers, restaurants, grocers that have sprung up around the central market like a ramshackle village around a castle's walls.
Only one vehicle was involved in the incident between Market Drayton and the Staffordshire village of Loggerheads.
The village has a barber shop, cafe and market.
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In downtown Brooklyn, NY, Dekalb Market this summer will band together a small village of shipping containers to shill fresh produce, food and coffee.
"A perfect day in Toronto" includes dining in Baldwin Village, complete with Italian sidewalk cafes, and exploring Kensington Market, a gritty, bohemian place with eclectic shops and cafes.
Every year, on 11 and 12 November, the village becomes the site of the countrys last substantial open-air market for trading cattle and purebred horses.
Cains is due to submit plans in July for restoring its Grade II-listed brewery and creating a Brewery Village featuring a hotel, cinema, apartments, parking, artisan food market and spa.
Instead of starting ventures with market research to identify consumer demands, state-and town-village enterprises start from the opposite direction.
Picture the beautiful village of Ipstones with its dry stone walls and weathered houses perched high above the market town of Leek, way up in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
Funding for the athletes' village was initially expected to come from the private sector, but the credit crunch and downturn in the property market meant planners had to instead use money from a prearranged contingency fund.
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