Toppers has 14 new stores under contract to open by 2013, according to Scott Iversen, director of franchise development.
Muzak entered the foreground-music arena in 1997, rebranding its employees as "audio architects" and securing Gap's in-store music contract in 1999.
As you might expect, the vast majority (82%) of app revenues occur outside app stores, with contracted services (i.e. developers building apps) dominating app-related revenue creation.
Thus, Bitproof and Blocknotary are disrupting contracts by recording them on the blockchain; instead of completing your house sale in front of a notary, just store the contract on the public ledger.
Companies tend to track this data using a variety of tools like spreadsheets for renewal dates and Box or Dropbox to store their contracts.
Martha Stewart, who has lent her name to a popular line of housewares at Kmart, is considering taking her merchandise out of the stores when her contract expires in 2009, according to people briefed on the matter.
So the only issue is whether a Martha Stewart boutique within a J. C. Penney store would qualify as a separate Martha Stewart store, since the contract states that the restrictions "shall not apply" to products "marketed or promoted" through the MSLO Web site "or MSLO store".
Associated Wholesale Grocers, which serves 850 stores in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois, contracted out its trucking and warehouse jobs in what it called a money-saving move after the union's contract expired.
In January, it said it would cut 6,700 jobs, reduce the number of new stores and renegotiate contracts with landlords and suppliers.
Cingular also must sell AT&T Wireless's mobile phone business, including customer contracts, stores and spectrum, in Fulton, Ky.; Litchfield, Conn.; the Lufkin-Nacogdoches area in Texas and Oklahoma City and Ponca City, Oklaa.
