His business depends heavily on Mexican customers: schools require uniforms, which Mr. Lopez sells, along with the uniforms used by many of the factory and medical workers on the other side of the border.
Aviary, the startup that makes a suite of impressive web-based creative applications, including editors for images, vector graphics, and audio recordings, is targeting a new class of customers: school teachers and their students.
Customer choice of schools and hospitals, for example—was to encourage competition and improve standards.
Now, Ms. Silver says, the company's customers include schools in every state.
Lady Baltimore, based in Kansas City, Kan., sells and distributes more than 14,000 food items and kitchen supplies to institutional customers, including schools, restaurants and hospitals in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Nebraska.
But catering is still the mainstay (customers include schools and government departments) and there is plenty of scope for overseas expansion.
To keep up the pace, Acer is recruiting new types of customers, including schools.
McGraw-Hill will now get exclusive global rights to distribute busuu to its B2B customers, including schools, private language institutions and corporations.
Entergy New Orleans has a "net metering" program that allows residential and commercial customers and schools generating their own power -- using solar panels or other devices -- to receive credit for unused power provided to the utility, said Philip Alison, spokesman for Entergy New Orleans.
For customers like school districts who paid for more comprehensive packages, the site offered the option of full-session encryption.
