Word: distributor
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...demographics of America have been transformed, so has the business of Chinese-American food today. Top restaurant chain P.F. Chang's China Bistro was actually founded by one Paul Fleming, its name derived from Fleming's initials and an alternative spelling of consultant Phillip Chiang's surname. The largest distributor of soy-sauce packets in the U.S., Kari-Out, is owned by a Jewish family in New York City (and Kari-Out soy sauce contains no soy). In the Los Angeles area, fortune cookies, noodles, sheets of wonton pastry and dumplings are mostly made by Mexican workers...
Messier also advised Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity and the New York City-based private-equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in their $5 billion purchase of electrical equipment distributor Rexel, and he counseled computer-services company Unilog in its $1.1 billion sale to Britain's Logica. Other clients include French heavyweights Lagardère, PPR and Schneider Electric...
...English Patient, Cold Mountain) and producer Sydney Pollack, both Oscar winners, optioned The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in January 2001. Minghella co-wrote the screenplay with Oscar nominee Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill). And Hollywood heavy hitter Harvey Weinstein signed on as the distributor...
...nine years ago. He says businesses have been hoarding goods until they can be sold at higher prices. In the last two months, he's created a new food distribution company, increased government controls and made overt threats to private business, including the nation's largest food producer and distributor, Polar...
...Eros Entertainment, Bollywood's biggest distributor, also puts hundreds of titles from its library of 1,300 movies and 5,000 music videos online; the company is planning to launch a new venture later this month offering similar ad-supported and pay-per-view options. Eros also brokered a deal late last year to upload trailers, movie clips and music videos to YouTube; so far, its clips have been viewed 15 million times. "This showed us that there was a sizeable segment that would lap up ad-supported free content," says senior vice president Manu Kaushish...