Barnett, or a larger distributor, such as Hughes Supply or W.W. Grainger.
In some categories, small distributors meet in a physical location in some area of a large city, buy a shipment of goods from a larger distributor, then drive their load back to another market in their own city.
I.B.M., through its services unit, is a large distributor of Solaris.
Amazon recently announced an arrangement for the Ingram Book Company, a large distributor, to ship certain books to its customers.
Haseen Fahim is the owner of Gas Group, a large distributor of natural gas, and the developer of several large construction projects.
"Most restaurants got hurt Thursday night," said Vincent DiCarlo Jr., a vice president of DiCarlo Food Service in Holtsville, a large distributor to restaurants on the Island and in New York City.
The federal agency has been investigating illegal pesticide use in New York City and New Jersey over the past year and is trying to track down a large distributor, Ms. Habib Spencer said.
"We saw demand rise going right up through the holiday week," said Audrey Seitz, the vice president of Ingram Book Group Marketing, a large distributor.
In Boulder, Colo., the Four Winds Trading Company, a large distributor of American Indian music, reported that its sales increased roughly 40percentt in each of the last three years.
"It caught the distributors off guard that the carriers would make these kind of changes, particularly to existing clients," said Bernie Gacona, director of annuities at Wells Fargo, a large distributor of annuities.
But some Garoto distributors are already preparing court cases against Nestlé, saying they are being forced to cut their margins from 17percentto10percentto14percentpercent, said Oldemar Delgado, a lawyer representing a large distributor.
