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Word: distributor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Common Market planners pursue their goal of free trade, businessmen of the six member nations have continued an older tradition: that of boundary-crossing deals through which manufacturers, in order to sandbag their competition, award exclusive sales rights to retail distributors. Now, in a long-awaited decision involving one such arrangement between Grundig, a West German electronics giant, and Consten, a French retail distributor, the Common Market has moved to topple the restraint-of-trade tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: A Blow for Freer Competition | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Nobody, except parents, seems upset by the Iron Cross's connotations. "When kids ask me about the 1939 inscription," says one distributor, "I just tell them it was a big year for surfing." Those who do know don't mind. "We just don't have the feeling about this Nazi thing that our parents do," explains Los Angeles Teen-Ager Rick Higgins. In fact, what parental disapproval there is seems only to fuel the fad. Admits Palmdale's Paul O'Hara, 15: "It really upsets your parents. That's why everyone buys them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: The Surfer's Cross | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...strategically wise maneuver. He used his profits to buy into a more secure and promising business: auto replacement parts. In a Balkanized industry that has thousands of small suppliers, he figured that the best goal was to knit together a nationwide network of manufacturing plants, warehouses and distributors. First he bought and merged a small-parts manufacturer and a parts distributor, then gradually parlayed profits and loans to add more companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millionaires: How They Do It | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...most reliable technique for safe smuggling is still the local spallone (from the Italian spalla, or shoulder). He is a sure-footed mountain man who trudges through the rocky gorge and Alpine forest of the border country with his fags in a shoulder knapsack, then sells them to a distributor who supplies the big cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Where They Still Walk A Mile for a Camel | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...start, he bought control in 1957 of a parts distributor in Houston and a small parts manufacturer in Grand Rapids, Mich., merged them to create Gulf & Western. Then he began acquiring young executives as rapidly as he bought up companies. He persuaded Houston's John Duncan, a coffee dealer whom he had met in the commodities trade, to sell out his personal holdings and invest $112,000 in G. & W. Next he induced David Judelson, a New Jersey machine-tool maker whom he had met on a vacation at Lake Champlain, N.Y., to put up another $50,000. Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Living on Breakdowns | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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