British pig farmers, for example, look enviously at their Danish counterparts who are mostly organised in big co-operative selling groups.
For his study, Mr. Schwarcz collected policies from the top-10-selling insurance groups in six states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California and Nevada.
We are seeing some real selling across several groups in the market today.
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"If you do well early with your season tickets, then you have a good idea of where you're going to be, " says Medlock, who didn't quite match the 2, 300 season-ticket packages sold last year but plans to make it up with walk-ups and by selling to larger groups.
Genzyme is used to selling drugs to small groups of patients for quite a lot of money.
This mutual-fund selling caused fund-management groups to quickly sell bonds out of their portfolios.
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Altruists who set up a nonprofit corporation can acquire lighthouses from the U.S. Coast Guard, which is in the process of selling off 300 to nonprofit groups.
Advisers will also have to state if they are genuinely independent, or restricted to selling the policies of particular financial groups.
Mr Milberg says he is not interested in selling out to the big car groups that have traipsed through his office in the past year.
Sales staff or financial advisers will also have to state if they are really independent, or restricted to just selling the policies of particular financial groups.
More doctors are selling out their practices to larger groups or hospitals and going to work for someone else rather than spend money to upgrade their practices with the latest technology for electronic medical records.
Great American Fundraising helps parent groups organize school fundraisers, selling everything from jewelry to candy.
The companies selling these applications recommend that users create virtual groups so employees can follow a specific topic, branch of the company or type of job.
It may have been built to look old, but the souq is still a top spot for an evening out, wandering in and out of warmly-lit stalls and galleries selling everything from jewellery to spices, past groups of men smoking shisha and sipping mint tea.
Operating as a separate company with Toan in charge and backing from New York Life, Express Scripts rapidly turned profitable and began to expand, selling its services mostly to employee health plans and other small groups.
That's why the newest version of TurboTax groups users into seven industries: real estate, online selling (think eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) sellers), construction, freelance artists, professional services (programmers, computer consultants), child-care providers and a generic catch-all bucket.
Unilever has long had a strong distribution network in India, but it has expanded its efforts with a division called Shakti, which provides Indian women's self-help groups with business education and the chance to earn a living selling cheap sachets of Unilever products.
Dr. Alexis Celeste Bunten, an anthropologist and co-chair of the tourism studies working group at the University of California at Berkeley, says that willing groups and communities need to find a way to commoditize their identity without selling out.
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