Word: purveyors
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...There's been a huge surge in the business for roller luggage in the last two years," says Peter Cobb, a vice president and co-founder of eBags.com an online luggage purveyor that averages 170,000 hits a day. "They used to be only for business trips, but now people are using them as briefcases every day, and they're buying them like fashion items, every six months...
Your Initials, Please The easiest way to identify luggage on the claim carousel is still old-fashioned initials. The idea of customizing travel gear started in France in 1854, when Louis Vuitton, a purveyor of steamer trunks, began hand-painting initials on its goods. Gaston-Louis, a grandson of Vuitton's founder, was obsessed with the trend of customization, particularly the use of stickers as a way of identifying a trunk's journey around the world. Today Louis Vuitton still offers personalization services--including hand-painting initials, stripes and crests in a choice of 15 colors...
...that's starting to change, spurred in part by hospitals' trying to attract well-heeled customers with generous health insurance. Last month MedAssets, a group purchaser for 2,400 hospitals, signed a contract with United Natural Foods, the nation's largest purveyor of organic products. And two months ago, Health Care Without Harm noharm.org launched a Healthy Food in Health Care pledge campaign for consumers to enlist their hospitals. So far, 47 medical centers have signed on to push for chemical-free food. Says Marie Kulick of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, author of a study on hospital...
...amount, which would be enough to cover a year's worth of federal taxes for 20 million Americans who make less than $20,000 a year and pay income taxes. How important is the tax credit to synfuel producers? In its latest annual report, Headwaters Inc., a Utah-based purveyor of synfuel processes and substances, says flatly, "Headwaters does not believe that production of synthetic fuel will be profitable absent the tax credits...
...Teacher in the Living Room?," by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the companies do essentially no research to back up their claims. Nor can they cite research by others that relates specifically to their products. "We're not neurolinguistic scientists," admits Marcia Grimsley, a senior producer for Brainy Baby, purveyor of such DVDs as Right Brain and Left Brain, which claim to develop the creative and logical components of a baby's mind. "We went out and researched other people's work?scientists, neurologists, psychologists?and applied that knowledge to our products so they could be fun and beneficial to parents...