So we've started roundtables where we bring together the entire value chain, from producers all the way to the retailers and brands.

The liberalization of the distribution sector in China has implied benefits for example, the development of different distribution formats, including specialty stores, the enhancement of local marketing and managerial capacity, and the possibility for domestic manufacturers to enter the international supply chain of foreign retailers (95 per cent of the products distributed by foreign retailers in China are locally sourced and foreign retailers export Chinese products abroad).

The distribution chain has become shorter, and a direct relationship between producers and retailers has emerged, driven by enabling technologies and the desire to lower transaction costs.

The retail sector includes two main types of retailers store and non store retailers.

Informal retailers could become the suppliers or the customers of formal retailers, or their franchises.

China's small and medium sized retailers faced difficulties in competing with foreign retailers.

The dominant market position of large retailers has been strengthened through cross border buying alliances among nominally independent retailers.

Monitoring of retailers could also be of value.

Eventually, they themselves become formal retailers.

The retailers have kind of quashed this notion though.

Retailers are distributors selling to end consumers.

Retailers have integrated backwards into wholesale operations, and producers have integrated forward, performing wholesale functions by distributing their products directly to retailers.

Put them in chain! Put them in chain!

Chain

CHAIN

Chain.

(a) CHAIN and CHAINEE CHAIN was developed by the Technical University of Braunschweig under contract.

By 2002, the world's top 30 retailers were active in 88 countries, nearly 70 per cent more than in 1997, and the overseas expansion of major retailers is constantly increasing.

Form a chain of men.

PDF Chain

Certificate chain

Call Chain

Chain rowers!

in collaboration with retailers of foods and professionals who work with nutrition locally.

Nobody knows the chain of command.

Grab a hold of the chain.

Foreign sales represent a significant share in total sales of the main European retailers.

Definition Use Chain

The tyrant's chain

GRAB THE CHAIN.

More sophistication is being introduced into the distribution chain to maximize value in each segment of the chain.

Retailers operating internationally can also resort to so called transfer pricing.

Lay hold of him and chain him

Lay hold of him and chain him

The distribution sector includes commission agents, wholesalers and retailers who act as enablers of trade.

Its membership consists of growers, product marketing organizations and growers' cooperatives, food manufacturers and retailers.

Fixing the Food Chain

Make a chain, gang.

Who pulled the chain?

like a chain reaction.

Put her in chain.

It's the chain. See?

Retailers could exercise their power in setting prices at the local level.

Further, the Commission's investigation established that Panamco Tica was lending refrigerators to retailers and attaching exclusivity clauses to the contracts, which required retailers to use the refrigerator for Coca Cola products exclusively.

In 2000, 70 per cent of the global top retailers already operated a transactional web site.