Word: linked
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...LINK SNACKS HEADQUARTERS Minong, Wis. 1996 REVENUES Over $50 million MARKETS Asia, Europe and North and South America
...most measures, Minong, Wis., is anything but cosmopolitan. It is a town of 520 people in the north woods, too small to have a movie theater or even a stoplight. Yet it is the home of a genuine multinational: Link Snacks, Inc., which rings up export sales of as much as $12 million a year to more than a dozen countries and stations sales representatives in Tokyo, Moscow and Regina, Saskatchewan, as well as Minneapolis, Minn. Not bad, considering 1) the company was in Chapter 11 only 10 years ago; and 2) its products--meat snacks, especially beef jerky...
...that's the point. Thanks to Hollywood westerns, cowboy chic has worldwide appeal; John Wayne is the very image of the American to many Asians and Europeans. And U.S. beef has a reputation in many overseas markets for premium quality. So overseas buyers went looking for Link, rather than Link for them...
Whatever the motivations may be, a rejection of higher education or simply the resistance to limiting the group's fan base by specifying a target audience, the notion that the Bosstones deny their unbelievably tenacious link to college music scenes all over the country seems absurd. With the growing popularity of the single "The Impression That I Get" from their most radio friendly album ever, Let's Face It, the number of potential fans has obviously grown...
...event was part of RPPI's New Economic Equation Project, which has funded a number of studies and panels addressing the link between large-scale economic issues and the concerns of families...