It had subcontracted the manufacture of rising crusts to Nation Pizza in Chicago for Tombstone, another hot-selling line.
Wal-Mart says it had subcontracted the work to the Tazreen factory without authorisation.
G4S was characterised as refusing to cooperate with the justice department's own probe, or rather one it had subcontracted to the accountants PwC, and Mr Grayling said that he had therefore felt obliged to ask the Serious Fraud Office to investigate it.
The standard conservative argument is that Obama — or Clinton before him — has subcontracted out our foreign policy to the United Nations or some other multilateral body that is usually described in frightening terms.
A home front that has not been asked to invest directly in a war, that has subcontracted it to a relatively small group of volunteers, can hardly be expected to feel it has a stake in the outcome five stalemated years on.
"It is like Al Qaeda has subcontracted some operations, like the bombing of the French engineers and the U.S. Consulate, to these local groups," the senior Pakistani intelligence official said.
The contract to operate the system was made with Ansaldo STS, who has subcontracted it to Metro Service, a joint venture between them and Azienda Trasporti Milanesi (ATM), the public transport company of the city of Milan, Italy.
Doesn't it make you feel better to know that the Fed has subcontracted its investment decisions to Moody's and its competitors?
Sony, for instance, has subcontracted the production of its original PlayStation video-game machine to a Chinese company but makes its new PlayStation 2 model in Japan.The trend towards more outsourcing is not confined to manufacturing.
Boeing has subcontracted parts work to China for many years, and it is expanding a joint venture in Tianjin that makes parts with composite materials for several of its planes.
