Global marketing chains, clusters, networks as channels for diversification

The presence of large chains helps to overcome bottlenecks in distribution networks existing in developing countries, and through those chains' international procurement practices may bring products from those countries for distribution in international markets.

This process has led to a concentration of sales, with large firms and chains dominating the market.

Equally important is the development of the processing, marketing and distribution capacities to ensure the successful positioning of enterprises in market chains.

In Chile, for example, the top four chains already represent 46 per cent of total national grocery retailing, and in Latin America as a whole, on average the top five chains represent 65 per cent of total sales.

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He wanted to create a franchise, a mechanism of delivery of eye care with the efficiency of McDonald's.

There were no restaurant chains.

Block all the streets leading out!

Networks of private businesses clusters and linkages

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I am the owner of one of the greatest drugstore chains.

The machine itself has 89 distinct interactions.

Put them out on the whole chain. I want everyone to smell good.

Those events led to a domino effect that has yet to end.

Yes, but it was taken over last year by the Midway chain.

37. Beyond the role of individual firms, globalization has re emphasized and modified the role of the global marketing chains that have characterized the commodity economy for many decades.

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And then there's a 13 page crisis document with 50 interlocking problems.

The fact that it has occurred in Germany and at that very hotel chain, is an even greater disgrace.

In the food retail business, there has been an impressive expansion of supermarket chains.

In the case of Indonesia, the top five chains account for 60 per cent of the market.

And the weakening of any one of them threatens a chain reaction.

It had been disconnected and the cotter pin had been removed.

This is sort of a 7 Eleven for time travelers.

There are Chinese restaurants everywhere, but there is no Chinese restaurant chain.

The chains pointed to other market forces which, they said, caused them to increase these prices.

The Perekriostok group, the Russian Federation's leading supermarket chain, has emerged in these conditions to become the fifth largest retailer in Europe and the ninth in the world in terms of retail sales.

The structure and composition of trading channels continue to play a crucial role, and understanding their dynamics can enable firms to position themselves more advantageously at the appropriate link in the chain.

Prisoners in chain gangs were reportedly required to perform heavy manual labour, such as rock breaking or clearing rubbish from the highway, while shackled together (or with their own legs chained together) with metal chains, exposed to the public.

39. Nevertheless, a noticeable number of processing or trading firms situated in developing countries have recently begun entering world marketing chains, as flexible specialization has lead to a dispersion of supply and processing facilities across the globe. Some developing countries have succeeded in delivering to such chains not just raw materials but processed commodities, and in creating industries based on locally available resources, with backward linkages.

The online promotion of tourism niches by developing countries complements the product offer of online travel distributors from developed countries, which often promote static packages (versus dynamic packages that allow consumers to customize their travel) and international hotel chains in developing countries.

He's a big chainstore buyer, one of our most important customers.

and is coupled to the bell crank here by a cotter pin.

In addition to providing improved interconnection, distribution networks allow for cost effective online operations, and coordinated business operations in real time among services providers, by interlinking airlines, hotel chains, public administrations, wholesalers, travel agencies, promoters and final customers through acting as information channels, distribution channels and databases for investment decisions, and for management of ongoing business operations as a whole.

As in the case of clusters, the formation and benefits of supply chain linkages depend upon the overall business environment, including appropriate regulatory settings, infrastructure and information about linkage opportunities.

Low cost family restaurant chain, for those of you who don't know it.

They turned out to be Mrs. Elvira Kent and her uncle, head of a drugstore chain.

The summer heatwave has boosted takings for Britain's struggling pubs but heaped more pressure on restaurant chains.

All of the scale goes to Coca Cola and Burger King.

Moreover, large chains tend to integrate backwards, offering new business opportunities to local manufacturers.

The chain gangs were said to be guarded by armed officers and dogs.

Such threats can set off a global chain reaction that will affect us all.

I've gone over the whole house, even in rooms that have been locked since I lost Laura.

So he went to find them. They said, We can give you a franchise on this for 3,000 bucks.