"Gallo's set up to make money from low-priced wines via their vertical integration and distribution strength and clout across all price points.
Perhaps we should be glad that major American labels, with their mass distribution and promotional clout, are still taking chances on rock bands of style and substance, whether the musicians hail from Bristol or Borneo.
By acquiring large audiologist practices, Dawson figured he could control a growing chunk of hearing aid distribution and use that clout to extract price concessions from manufacturers.
Such a competitor, having obtained the software for nothing, could use its manufacturing, merchandising, and distribution clout to outmaneuver KMS.
These small houses lack the financial resources and distribution clout of the conglomerates, but they do provide a badly needed alternative.
Winning titles and distribution clout dominate the children's software market.
Taiwan-based Want Want Holdings, whose formidable brand and distribution clout makes it the king of the rice cracker business in China, says it admires Lay's success so much it would be happy to partner with a foreign potato-chip maker willing to enter the market.
In a move that should significantly increase its programming and distribution clout, Telemundo Group--the second-largest Spanish-language television network in the U.S.--said Monday that it has agreed to be acquired by a co-venture that includes two deep-pocketed entertainment conglomerates, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Liberty Media Corp.
More important than the physical source of gas is all the other stuff: who owns the distribution and transit pipes, what clout do politicians have in the gas business and vice versa, and where the money goes.
But acting primarily as a publisher, Microsoft can minimize its risk and offer its marketing clout, distribution and deep pockets to developers hungry for cash and security.
