Two far-spread companies, in terms of style and geography, will perform this weekend at this Berkshires festival.
Dairy Crest, the spreads company behind Clover, Country Life and Cathedral City, said it had recently had to raise the prices it paid to farmers by 12%.
Whole Foods this week announced an agreement with Longmont-based Earth Balance under which the natural foods division of New Jersey-based spreads company Smart Balance Inc. would launch its line of organic soymilks at Whole Foods stores nationwide...for the rest, click here.
"The wealth is being spread to companies across the industry".
The sell-off also spread to companies like Baltimore Technologies of Britain, which provides Internet enabling technology.
As accounting scandals spread, engulfing companies like Enron and WorldCom, investors are wondering how much of the earnings growth that propelled stocks in the 1990's was real.
Market share is more evenly spread among companies that make shelf systems, and Apple's iPod family dominates the portable music player market.
For example, Paddy Power Betfair, which includes one of the largest Internet spread betting companies, charges a different commission for spread bets on each country.
Specialization and expertise spread through companies and flourish in unseen pockets, but few managers are certain who knows what among their ranks.
Then, one Sunday night in late August, I fired off a dozen of perfectly-pitched cover letters to a whole spread of companies.
Since Monsanto first developed Roundup in the 1970s, its use has spread as companies develop crops that are genetically engineered to resist the herbicide.
