Sensing a built-in clientele, the ancillary businesses (flower shops, gravestone makers) have followed the funeral homes' lead.
For some people, the beach is ancillary to the shopping, dining and late-night carousing found in many resort communities.
Yet, FOBTs are an ancillary product in "betting" shops, just as they are in bingo halls and casinos.
The survey found that corporate giving is down as much as 20percentthathat earnings have dropped -- in large part because of a decline in ancillary revenue from restaurants, gift shops and garages as well as ticket sales -- and that schoolchildren's attendance was down 35percentt from last Oct. 1 through Dec. 31.
Ancillary businesses -- restaurants, ice cream shops and boutiques -- are sprouting up.
Then there are ancillary business activities like restaurants, museum shops, online sales and licensing.
In the casinos of Las Vegas, only 26% of revenues come from gambling, the rest from ancillary activity including shows, dining and shopping, says Gabriel Chan, an analyst at Credit Suisse.
So, paradoxically, did the acquisition of the accoutrements of globalisation: industry and investment didn't come to Bengal, but the ancillary features of a deregulated economy – shopping malls, new five-star hotels, multiplexes, gated properties – began to adorn Calcutta.
Rural communities all across Australia are shrinking, along with the ancillary businesses and services – main-street shops, doctors' surgeries, schools, car dealerships, places of worship, community centres and sporting clubs – that have traditionally served them.
This is a fair point well taken, but it could well be that shopping is merely an ancillary benefit of touristic travel for the Chinese -– travel, after all, is seen as a luxury good by many Westerners.
