Sentence examples for supplier off from inspiring English sources

China is brilliant at playing one supplier off against the other to keep profit margins thin.

If he loses business with one of his customers (an all too common event, as the supermarkets like nothing better than to play one supplier off against another), he is spared the ignominy of being forced to tell the stock exchange or issue a profit warning.

VISTEON CORP., Dearborn, Mich., the auto-parts supplier spun off by the Ford Motor Co. in June, said it had bought closely held LTD Parts Inc., Sparta, Tenn., for an undisclosed price to help supply remanufactured parts to Ford, its largest customer.

In just five minutes Tuesday, the curious visitors included DaimlerChrysler's product development chief, Jurgen Hubbert, as well as Gary L. Cowger, who is in charge of manufacturing in North America for G.M., and Peter J. Pestillo, chairman and chief executive of Visteon, the big parts supplier spun off by Ford.

Delphi, the parts supplier spun off from General Motors, has agreed to the same principle in its contract.

Niles' long stock pick for the coming year is ON Semiconductor, a semiconductor component supplier spun off from Motorola in 1999.

The stock traded as low as $1.99 a year ago, when slack demand for rental cars and worries over the bankruptcy of Chrysler, the company's main fleet supplier, scared off investors.

Our driver discreetly told us that he was a wholesale heroin supplier, dropping off a fresh batch for the local dealer.

Past I-94, the highway crosses over the same CSX line and a Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) line and passes a campus of Wayne County Community College and the headquarters of the Visteon, a major auto parts supplier spun off from Ford Motor Corporation.

One is a simple green salad, while the other consists of whatever goodies one of his local suppliers drops off at his back door.

As soon as APP and its suppliers switched off their bulldozers, Greenpeace suspended its campaign and said it would closely monitor progress against APP's stated aims.