So Mr Doll-Steinberg decided that SoftWide should open its own chain of shops.
But perhaps the world's most successful at this is New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has a chain of 40 shops, from Texas to Tokyo, selling replicas of its exhibits though the Met declines to say how much profit these stores make.
It also has the largest chain of paint shops in North America, at 3, 100.
He took a job working for a chain of magic shops, doing graphic design and demonstrating tricks.
Green Mountain preferred to keep the chain of coffee shops intact and operating under the Tully's name.
Asif Noorani, the founder of Dr. Cell Phone, a chain of repair shops in Texas, has also seen one iPad.
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Schmucker, a Pittsburgh native who graduated from Penn State, started a chain of bagel shops with some of his childhood buddies.
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As a teenager, he met Leslie Bennett, a local bookmaker who also ran a chain of menswear shops where Mr. Marsan worked.
Secord is more famous today for the chain of chocolate shops named after her than for what she did in June 1813.
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In August Sephora sued Macy's, after the American firm mimicked the French one with its own chain of cosmetics shops, called Souson.
Sony's Los Angeles store is the first in a series that is expected to replace the company's existing chain of retail shops, called Sony Style.
And Chai is a chain of tea and coffee shops with a few locations in the city.
Government clinics often ran out of drugs because of supply-chain problems, while roadside shops sold elixirs of dubious quality.
Helping to drive sales but to temporarily depress profits was the acquisition out of bankruptcy of Clinton Cards, a U.K.-based chain of 400 retail card shops.
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Sandy Bulloch, who currently heads the firm, started working for it in the 1940s, and built it up to a chain of 25 specialist off-sales shops, which have since been sold.
Schlecker, a chain of discount chemists, recently shut down some shops and sacked the workers, but at the same time opened bigger ones with temporary staff at lower pay.
Spain and Italy have relatively few personal computers or other internet access, and a more durable tradition of buying from local, non-chain shops.
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Restructuring specialist Hilco has clinched a deal to rescue music and DVD retailer HMV, acquiring 132 HMV shops and all nine branches of the Fopp chain.
JCPenney treated analysts to a tour of a remodeled store last week, showing how the chain means to reinvent its stores into a mini-mall of boutique shops with specialty and exclusive merchandise.
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The demise of the local store has been recognised as collateral damage of the chain takeover, and the few surviving communities that surround local shops are now highly prized.
Five years after Parliament agreed suspect cattle parts (brains, spinal cords and other offal) should be kept out of the human food chain, beef carcasses ready for the butchers' shops were found with the offal still in place.
In Britain it is now on sale only in a few duty-free shops and on Virgin flights, though Virgin plans to launch a chain of Virgin Vodka bars.
"If the tax office hadn't called, I wouldn't be where I am now, " laughs the 33-year-old, now president of Plaza Create, Japan's largest photo-processing chain, with over 800 shops.
Ken Gutman spent 22 years at Sign-A-Rama, a West Palm Beach, Fla. franchisor of business-sign shops, climbing from store manager to chief operating officer of the 1, 300-unit chain.
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