The combined business became one of the largest pharmaceutical distributors in Europe.
It would become the largest sporting goods distributor in Canada.
Competition was intense between the large distributors, and prices overall were forced down.
Still, even if they do not say it publicly, the Asian companies have desired larger distributors.
The deal would create one of the nation's largest distributors of natural gas.
It is also the largest distributor of natural gas in Canada.
He said it was a coup because 100,000 cases a year would be "peanuts" to large distributors.
Arrow Electronics is the world's largest distributor of electronic and computer products.
They are now the largest distributor of musical instruments in Scotland.
By 1984, it had grown the become the largest distributor of scholarship in India.
