Pulte bought the Ponds site earlier this year from a group of investors that included Mr. Simons.

One is Traidcraft's purchasing policy, which is slightly different to how it decides whether it's going to buy from a particular group, people who're producing something.

Buying from a carefully targeted group could have a number of benefits:

The building was bought from a group headed by the investors Alan Cohen and Peter Frankel.

The Sunas bought the site from a Korean agricultural group, which never occupied it.

The telecoms and defence of officials usually preferred to buy from a small group of two or three national companies.

Among other things, the newsletter says that most supplement makers buy the ingredients for their vitamins and minerals from a small group of multi-national companies.

Hee-bong also buys weapons and a map of the sewers from a group of men, so they are prepared for searching for Hyun-seo.

Ms. Pitt, a 39-year-old single mother of four, bought her two-family house from a local nonprofit group, Episcopal Community Development, in 1999.

The families of many people who were here when a consortium of Polish immigrants bought the hall from a group of Italians have long since gone.