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...Shareholders of AmerisourceBergen delivered a strong message to the US’s third-largest drug distributor in March....
...For most of Japan’s biggest companies — from SoftBank to Toyota, Suntory to Coca-Cola — the only route to their customers runs through Dentsu’s imposing glass tower in Tokyo....
...Saint-Gobain, founded by Colbert, is today Europe’s largest distributor of glass and building materials by sales....
...VAs, which tend to be sold through financial advisers, are expected to be hit by proposals from the US Labor Department to tighten standards for distributors....
...Analysts say this illustrates the stakes involved for all the parties as they look to win control of the US distributor....
...This structure enables Adobe to consolidate most foreign sales through its low tax Irish company, which acts as a distributor of Adobe’s software products....
...Sitting in his glass-walled office, the chief executive of PCH International laughs off the sobriquet given to him by the journalist James Fallows in The Atlantic magazine....
...There is a greater focus on innovation, with the introduction of bigger plastic containers and new glass bottles; a push into hypermarkets; and consolidation among distributors....
...As a boy, Ryszard Florek would often sleep in the attic of his house and try to make out a bit of the sky through the blurred glass brick in the roof....
...Emhart Glass Maufacturing’s customers include many of the leading brewers and soft drink distributors....
...The company provides innovative solutions to photographers’ problems, and operates through a network of distributors in 55 countries....
...Nippon Sheet Glass, which bought UK glassmaker Pilkington in 2006, shed 9.2per cent to Y268 after it warned of further losses this fiscal year....
...And if distributors are to exploit lower prices by passing them on to the consumer, they too need scale. A little history is in order here....
...Negotiations between distributors such as cable operators and television station owners are governed by the 1992 Cable Act that gives broadcasters the right to withhold its signal from rebroadcasts on cable...
...A company executive proudly shows off a glass flask containing around a pint of this murky fluid. “That’s worth around £250,000,” he says, taking care not to knock the container over....
...His experience rests largely on the sale of Pilkington, the glassmaker sold to Japan’s Nippon Sheet Glass last year....
...Thursday saw their biggest one-day share drop since Red Hat, the main distributor of Linux software, went public in 1999....
...But the prospect of stiffer competition also hit Asahi Glass, Japan’s biggest glass maker, which declined 2.3 per cent to Y1,417....
...Mr Mustoe is now considering extending the service to Senator’s distributor network....
...It has watched consolidation occur among its customers – including retailers, glass suppliers and distributors....
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