Last year Fox Searchlight, a film distributor, lost a case against two former unpaid interns who had worked on the film "Black Swan".
Two months ago the chief executive of Intel, Craig Barrett, criticised Dixon's, Britain's dominant distributor of personal computers, for overcharging, claiming that its pricing policies were stunting the market.
But one expert, the former distributor of honours, Sir Hayden Phillips, has argued that honours are: "Our way in the United Kingdom of saying thank you publicly to those who have 'gone the extra mile' in their service or who stand out 'head and shoulders' above others".
Once Grant decided to become a distributor after missing all five of his first-half shots, the Irish soared.
In doing so it cleverly addresses two different markets: MBA students who want fresh grist to their mills and roadside businesspeople who want an introduction to management theory.To produce a few examples from many: Saint Joe Distributing, a tobacco-and-candy distributor in Saint Joseph, Missouri, chooses its operating hours in order to attract a specific sliver of the workforce.
In 2011 meanwhile, vice-president Edward Ssekandi officiated a ceremony in which a distributor was awarded a car and organised for Tiens to donate some of its products to a government health centre.
With Oscar nominees Wolf, Hustle and Slave continuing to dominate the UK market, distributor StudioCanal would be forgiven if it experienced a nervous moment as it unleashed Inside Llewyn Davis into UK cinemas.
HdP's wholly owned GFT clothing manufacturer and distributor has a bulging portfolio that includes exclusive agreements with Giorgio Armani, Pierre Cardin and Nino Cerruti.Maurizio Romiti, HdP's managing director, believes that the Valentino brand can now be developed more adventurously, with new products and wider distribution.
Mora runs the environmentalist non-governmental organisation Őkotárs in Budapest, which acts as the intermediary distributor of money from Norway's generous aid programme for civil society projects in central and eastern Europe.
You're telling me you don't have hundreds of men popping into your cubicle in the accounting department of your mid-sized, regional dry-goods distributor to inform you that – hmm – you're too fat to rape, but perhaps they'll saw you up with an electric knife?
Not only does each distributor have to compete with 200,000 other sellers as well as 30 well-established stores, it doesn't make economic sense for customers to buy from individual members when they could sign up to Tiens themselves and get much lower prices anyway.
