Philip Kwame Apagya operates a commercial studio in a coastal town in Ghana, where he produces color portraits for a local clientele and larger versions for exhibition.
In Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Abel Cherubin, a native of Haiti, has prepared taxes for a local clientele -- a mix of working-class blacks, Latinos and West Indians -- from a rented storefront for more than a decade.
Unlike full-service auto recyclers, which deal primarily in cars eight years and younger, and whose salvaged parts tend to be used to repair cars covered by insurance companies, Pick-n-Pull's cars tend to be 10 years and older, and most of its customers are do-it-yourselfers or neighborhood mechanics who work for a local clientele.
Yet, while Longhi built up a reliable local clientele for his works of this kind, Guardi's display of his skills in this genre did not meet with the same success.
Ms. Goudie said she had been ready to sign a lease in Bronxville, a more upscale Westchester County community, but now appreciated a local clientele hungry for a new shop.
A Chinese Restaurant Closes, And Reopens Nearby Broadway Cottage II, a Chinese restaurant that for 12 years served a local clientele on Broadway between 92nd and 93rd Streets, dished up its last fried rice on New Year's Eve and moved to new location as Pearl's Restaurant on Amsterdam Avenue and 99th Street.
For now, Mr. Bozok not only has the hoped-for Michelin inspectors to win over, but also his local clientele.
That salon, as well as the Fekkai studio in the Mark Hotel, which has a loyal local clientele, also made room for the company's SoHo stylists who needed to see their clients.
Franchisees are responsible for employee salaries, taxes and tailoring the business to the needs of the local clientele.
As independent craftsmen, they sold to a largely local clientele, invested in real estate and worked hard to provide for their numerous heirs.
