They handle products in bulk but do not own them, delivering them to wholesalers, retailers or other individual users.

China's small and medium sized retailers faced difficulties in competing with foreign retailers.

The retail sector includes two main types of retailers store and non store retailers.

Informal retailers could become the suppliers or the customers of formal retailers, or their franchises.

Eventually, they themselves become formal retailers.

The dominant market position of large retailers has been strengthened through cross border buying alliances among nominally independent retailers.

Retailers are distributors selling to end consumers.

Retailers have integrated backwards into wholesale operations, and producers have integrated forward, performing wholesale functions by distributing their products directly to retailers.

Monitoring of retailers could also be of value.

The retailers have kind of quashed this notion though.

Retailers operating internationally can also resort to so called transfer pricing.

By 2002, the world's top 30 retailers were active in 88 countries, nearly 70 per cent more than in 1997, and the overseas expansion of major retailers is constantly increasing.

Retailers could exercise their power in setting prices at the local level.

Further, the Commission's investigation established that Panamco Tica was lending refrigerators to retailers and attaching exclusivity clauses to the contracts, which required retailers to use the refrigerator for Coca Cola products exclusively.

On the contrary, most European top retailers have operations outside the home country.

in collaboration with retailers of foods and professionals who work with nutrition locally.

I'd put out feelers to retailers, to auctioneers, and it was coming up empty.

Foreign sales represent a significant share in total sales of the main European retailers.

The distribution sector includes commission agents, wholesalers and retailers who act as enablers of trade.

Small retailers can, however, find niche markets, such as serving convenience needs and local tastes.

The Euro Retailer Produce Working Group (EUREP) is a European based trade organization for retailers.

Its membership consists of growers, product marketing organizations and growers' cooperatives, food manufacturers and retailers.

Producers are also engaging in direct sales to consumers through on line retailing, bypassing retailers.

In 2000, 70 per cent of the global top retailers already operated a transactional web site.

The top 100 retailers (see table 3) account for 25 per cent of worldwide retailing sales.

The liberalization of the distribution sector in China has implied benefits for example, the development of different distribution formats, including specialty stores, the enhancement of local marketing and managerial capacity, and the possibility for domestic manufacturers to enter the international supply chain of foreign retailers (95 per cent of the products distributed by foreign retailers in China are locally sourced and foreign retailers export Chinese products abroad).

Growing use by retailers of own brands and discount retailing have also been driving prices down significantly.

Retailers are able to access and tap different cost structures in different countries and are becoming global.

While the first operates fixed point of sale locations, non store retailers or retailers away from a fixed location reach customers and market merchandise with methods such as broadcasting infomercials , paper and electronic catalogues, door to door solicitation and selling from portable stalls.

For those of you who are retailers, you may want to look away before I show this slide.

Other experts stressed that modern retailers usually integrated backwards and could then help improve manufacturing processes and packaging.

In the Colombian market large scale retailers coexist with SMEs, each one serving a different segment of the market.

The Government has implemented a special programme (PYMECO) to support small retailers through training in management and distribution processes.

At present most Vietnamese retailers are small, family run outlets, offering a limited choice of products to their customers.

Criminal groups attack the websites of web retailers and Internet payment systems, extorting payment to make the attacks cease.

Retailers have internationalized through franchising, especially in the speciality store segment, where restrictions on commercial establishment were in effect.

The increased buying power of retailers has emerged through their role in negotiating prices and introducing own brand products.

Adjustment among small retailers has come through specialization, and the size of the specialty markets in developed countries has allowed for this adjustment to take place, but in the case of developing countries the size of the market may not allow adjustment of small retailers through specialization.

It takes lots of lawyers and lots of court time, and the retailers decided that would be way too expensive.

It is primarily a company that manufactures, bottles and resells the finished product to wholesalers and retailers in Costa Rica.

The government can, say, impose zoning regulations, help small retailers find nbsp specialized niches in the market, or provide skills training to displaced workers. The survival of artisanal retailers should not be used as an excuse to introduce or uphold business regulations that ultimately protect the incumbent rich.

Since stakeholders are concerned about the rapidly increasing presence of foreign retailers, there is a need to bridge the fear factor .

(b) Drive sales of UNICEF cards and gifts with a special focus on broadening their distribution through retailers and the Internet

So we've started roundtables where we bring together the entire value chain, from producers all the way to the retailers and brands.

With regard to food distribution more specifically, the industry is composed of many agents, including supermarkets, quick service restaurants and specialty retailers.