Sentences with phrase «distribution business back»

We got our start in the videogame retail and distribution business back in 1987.

Not exact matches

John Gerzema of the advertising agency Young & Rubicam wonders if Starbucks is sandboxing a new back - end service similar to what Amazon.com provides to small online retailers: Independent coffee - shop owners could plug into Starbucks distribution network but still retain local credibility and control, and the «Bucks could expand its business without adding retail locations.

Unfortunately, the ties that bind all Linux distributions — primarily a lack of support for major Windows - and Mac - based business, design, and gaming applications — still hold Ubuntu back from mass popularity.

In the services area, HR, finance, IT, production, printing, packaging, transportation, distribution, all of that will be consolidated, and there'll be a lot of opportunity to take those savings and reinvest a portion of them back into what we believe are two essential areas of the business that we tend to invest more in than most: our newsrooms and our local ad sales.»

Michael «Tony» Russo recalls a time when, as a child helping out in his father's produce distribution business, he had collected 20 cases of asparagus from a supplier and brought them back to his family's warehouse only to discover that one of the company's drivers had already collected the same amount of the vegetable.

Some pretty exciting news this afternoon as Lionsgate (The Last Exorcism, Saw, Cabin Fever) is getting back in the horror business by acquiring U.S. distribution rights to Barry Levinson's found footage eco-horror film The Bay from Alliance Films.

Grancor, the speed shop and warehouse - distribution business the brothers formed in Chicago, sponsored Indy roadsters in the»50s, and the Granatellis brought Novi roadsters back to run the Brickyard for several years in the early and mid»60s.

This process has actually been ongoing for quite some time and began with the emergence of tools that digitized the back - end of the business; word processors, computers, design software, email and much more (which changed writing, editing, typesetting, design etc) and has over time moved from there towards more front facing aspects of the industry (production, distribution, selling) before starting to make a large impact on the consumer side of the industry, consumption in the form of ebooks and web - reading (not to mention making many other forms of content from music to games available to those consumers).

We think that Kindle not only helps to remove multiple costs and inefficiencies in the traditional book printing and distribution business (e.g. print and fulfillment costs, back order risk, and inventory management) but also increases propensity to buy books / content and other adjacent products due to convenience and 24/7 access, said Aggarwal.

Our principal business objective is to generate income for distribution to our stockholders from the spread between the interest income on our mortgage - backed securities and costs of borrowing to finance our acquisition of mortgage - backed securities, and from dividends we receive from our subsidiaries.

But then things settle down, and C&C goes back to the slow business of selling cider & Tennent's, and local distribution in Ireland, N. Ireland & Scotland (they recently acquired the Gleeson Group to bulk up).

As has been pointed out on there though, Murdoch's attentions have been turned back to his core business of media distribution.

«When the project is up and running, this innovative back - end technology, which boasts a single entry point and standardized data fields, will give brokers and agents greater control over data and its distribution, greatly improving how their businesses operate by reducing redundancies and saving time and money,» says Salomone.