The chain had grown to become a force in the regional market and the original owners had sold out to an investment group long ago.
China is now the second biggest regional market for Apple and it will pass the U.S. to become the largest market for them in the near future, Apple CEO Tim Cook said during his visit to Beijing last month.
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The housing market remains in a depression, and community and regional bank stocks have lagged the broader market.
Although fast-growing, the regional e-commerce market is hampered by low credit-card use and poor postal services.
Egypt's government has just sharply tightened controls over what may be broadcast over the state-owned Nilesat communications platforms, French-built satellites that have captured much of the 300m-strong regional market for satellite television.
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Seeing an opportunity to meet the needs of an unfulfilled market, ESPN Regional Television first purchased the Las Vegas Bowl.
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Bombardier and Brazil's Embraer are deadly rivals in the fast-growing regional jet market, which involves commercial planes with less than 100 seats.
Originally designed for the thin-margin regional airline market, this large-cabin jet had built-in operational efficiencies that allowed it to compete head-to-head with significantly smaller regional jets.
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Though no estimates were provided by the company on the cost savings, it expects to achieve by adding regional traffic from other players in the market.
Not only does he have the cash, but it would make it more economical in the future for him to get a new arena that he could share with his NHL franchise and, as the only owner of three teams in the four major leagues in one market, start a regional sports network (or use the threat of one to extract higher television fees).
This type of attitude perhaps goes some way to explaining why the high end of the property market doesn't always track the local national or regional economy.
The Vision 2030 initiative is keen to align with regional economic communities such as the East African Community, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) and Community of Sahel-Saharan States among others.
For these reasons I think the surprise player in the minijet market could be Embraer, the Brazilian maker of 110-seat regional jets.
In retrospect, the flexible, if unregulated, labour market has been one of the strongest indicators of greater regional economic integration.
The policy announcement was approved unanimously by the Federal Open Market Committee, the group of Fed board members in Washington and Fed regional bank presidents who set the federal funds rate.
Vincent William of the Southern African Migration Project, a regional initiative, says southern Africa should become a single labour market along the lines of the European Union.
The market for white goods remains largely regional, thanks to high transport costs and different tastes.
Due to the concern that gas generation has grown rapidly and yet the rules for gas and power markets are different, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission held regional hearings on market syncing issues in 2012.
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Mr Mumbengegwi said Zimbabwe had already invited observers from the African Union (AU) and two regional bodies, the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), to monitor the referendum.
Oil pumped in the Gulf of Guinea comes ashore, via the international spot market, in the form of billion-dollar transfers that have made Lagos a regional financial centre.
For instance, someone interested in a particular regional band could look up the population of that market and see which TV stations are currently operating there.
But he warned that regional airports risked being priced out of the market, leaving greater consolidation between major airports and airlines, which would lead to less choice and higher prices for consumers.
Economists in China have sounded warning bells about government finances, saying that many cities and regional governments have limited scope to support the bond market because they themselves could end up in need of bailouts.
The deregulated U.K. market offered stability and attractive growth, but Nye wasn't interested in the regional electricity distributors that other utilities were buying.
"With the general election overhang out of the way, we expect the market to gradually move higher in the months ahead to narrow the gap to its regional peers, as concerns over continuity of policies abate, " said Alexander Chia, an analyst at RHB Research.
Putting quantity ahead of quality could ultimately erode the territory's regional standing as a well-regulated market.
CNN, still the only broadcaster to make money in the pan-European market, has launched a European regional channel, and is starting to broadcast in European languages.
Now TAM is planning to merge with LAN, a privatised Chilean airline which has long set the regional standard for efficiency in its open, liberalised home market.
"You can own the market, while having a base for a strong regional franchise, " says sports consultant Bernie Mullin of the Aspire Group.
Innovation comes in a variety of forms and one of the tough ones is new market entry, negotiating local and regional cultural differences and new languages.
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