"The distribution system for the entertainment business is broken," said Daniel H. Adler, Fanista's founder.
The 23-year veteran of the Campbell Soup Co. had been running its Godiva chocolate business, whose distribution system mirrored that of Yankee Candle (rank 33); both sell high-price specialty goods through company-owned outlets, gift shops and department stores.
But we're not in the business of putting other people in business, by creating a distribution system".
It takes some effort, but any business can develop a distribution system that offers great benefit.
Taking a long-term view, Freed invests in a distribution system that can foster long-term repeat business, even when others take a different path towards direct sales.
New distribution systems are putting businesses and customers into much closer contact, to the benefit of both.
WHEN John Baugh and his wife Eula Mae launched Zero Foods in 1946, to deliver frozen food to businesses in Houston, America's distribution system consisted of countless small local firms.
The new agreement extends KeySpan's contract to manage the power distribution system on the Island, the core of its business relationship with the power authority, until 2013; it had been due to end in 2008.
Did he not receive the memo about foreclosures for the "little people?" Frankly, to turn a society over to business interests in any economic distribution system is folly to the nth degree.
He had a regional business, little access to capital, and no reliable distribution system for his product.
