By the time D/R closed (Thompson had lost control of the company eight years earlier), it had attracted a fan club that included Julia Child and Jackie Kennedy, and influenced retailers like Gordon Segal, the founder of Crate & Barrel, and Rob Forbes, who founded Design Within Reach.
Which types of online reviewers and websites exert the greatest influence on retailer sales elasticity?
Frequency of extension contact has a positive and significant influence on retailer and cooperative outlet choice decision at 5% significance level.
Some unobserved factors (such as the e-retailer's brand strength) might influence e-retailers' return rate, but could not be included in our regression models.
Mr. Katzman said the deal would make Mars the clear category leader in the candy aisle, giving it more influence with retailers.
It's still not clear how Walmart's announcement will influence other retailers — that is, how any copycat wage increases would compare with increases guaranteed to come with government-mandated minimum-wage hikes.
With supermarket chains consolidating into a relative handful of strong global players over the last several years, brand-name food makers felt their power slipping and have sought ways to regain influence with retailers.
Almost all the top-selling artists are on major labels or big independents, which have the marketing budgets and influence with retailers and radio stations to push an act to No. 1.
Under the deal, Procter & Gamble, arguably the American consumer products company with the greatest influence among retailers, will still take care of the ordering, shipping and billing systems used for Oxydol, which will continue to be made at a P.& G. plant.
Taken in total, Apple said, the e-mail "shows a new entrant with no market power proposing an alternative business model to HarperCollins, and candidly recognizing that Apple has no power to predict or influence other retailers," Apple said in pretrial papers.
