Then there are earnings, which will include biotech firm Schering-Plough, courier UPS, entertainment and media company Walt Disney, and food-chain conglomerate Yum! Brands, all on Tuesday.
Today's booming market for gourmet coffee is the product of vigorous "co-opetition" between various kinds of firm Starbucks and similar retail chains, big conglomerates such as Nestlé, and upmarket coffee brands such as Illy.
At the top of the chain, huge financial conglomerates like Citigroup, G.E. Capital and the giant banks, brokerage firms and mutual funds are expected to devour many of the biggest insurers.
That makes record companies, cinema chains and media conglomerates, notably Disney and AOL Time Warner, likely candidates for becoming MVNOs.Who will emerge victorious from this free-for-all is still far from clear.
But given the more than $4 billion in television air time bought by restaurant chains and food conglomerates each year, these directors arguably have some of the widest exposure of any commercial artists in the country.
The Chronicle added data from Safeway, one of the largest American supermarket chains, and food-processing conglomerates such as Pillsbury.On the Nielsen scale, where 100 equals the national average, San Francisco's consumption of wine rates 324; the city that drinks the second-most wine, Portland, Oregon, is far behind at 242.
In 1986 Conran folded those stores, along with British Home Stores and several clothing chains, into the conglomerate Storehouse, for which he served as CEO and chairman.
The department store chain, now owned by Chinese conglomerate Sanpower, enjoyed a 5.3% year-on-year rise in sales at its established shops and online.
At the MobileStore, an Indian chain owned by the Essar conglomerate, which says it sells 15 percent of the iPhones purchased in the country, iPhone sales tripled between December and January, thanks to a monthly payment program introduced last month.
In the past two years, the radio conglomerates -- including the largest chain, Clear Channel and smaller chains like Radio One -- have designated promoters they want to work with exclusively.
