Word: distributor
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...scandal threw a bright light on the shadowy practice of body sales. New Orleans' Tulane University last week got caught up in the controversy when it was revealed that seven cadavers it gave a distributor had been blown up by the U.S. Army as part of a test of land mine--resistant footwear. Says Monique Coulon Nemeth, whose deceased father's body may have been among the remains: "It's so sad to do this to [families], so wrong...
After spending nearly 15 years in the drug and auto-parts industries, Winston, 42, just landed her first CFO job--in kids' books. She takes over the finances of Scholastic, the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's titles (2003 sales: nearly $2 billion; Harry Potter had something to do with that). "No question, this industry is totally different," Winston says. "But at the high levels of finance, the fundamentals are the same...
...could have handed this film to a much more mainstream distributor and had no relationship with the audience,” Subrin says. “It’s kind of fun, but it’s back-breaking work when you go to college campuses. It’s certainly not a financial move...
...serve and make a play in the primary market. "We've got a huge stand-alone opportunity," says Baker, who runs the company with colleague Jeff Fluhr, a Stanford Business School classmate. His immediate goals include signing more teams and finalizing a Web advertising deal with a major online distributor. "Sure, you can call us Ivy League scalpers," says Baker. "But this is a very attractive business, and the more that teams embrace it, the more legitimate online trading becomes." That doesn't mean prices won't skyrocket for big games. But it does mean you no longer have...
...There is definitely a significant increase in people interested in eating game meat," says Geoff Latham, president of Nicky USA, a game distributor in Portland, Ore. "Our sales have grown from approximately $250,000 in 1990 to at least $3.5 million last year." That's far less than the $210 billion in sales of the U.S. beef industry, but the numbers are rising. D'Artagnan, another game source, has seen its sales of farmed rabbit leap almost 20% over the past few years...