1.   Captive customers had no choice but to pay for construction of the plants over an extended time.

2.   Each has its own captive customers, its rates dictated by local regulators, rarely by the market.

3.   For years it had been owned by Reynolds Aluminum, which originally viewed it merely as a captive customer for foil used to wrap ice cream bars.

4.   If most customers are as devoted as she is, then each dry cleaner is like a mini-Microsoft, with its own captive customer base.

5.   In buying Peak, Moore gets a big captive customer and instantly doubles the revenue of its label business.

6.   Now, kids are used to foist consumables on captive customers.

7.   Still, they are maintaining production of base steel products destined for sale in the Nordic region, as high transportation costs offers them a captive customer base.

8.   The end of the Soviet Union meant the plant lost its captive customers.

9.   This marks a change from the days when utilities operated as strictly regulated monopolies with captive customers.

10.   We would gain a billion more captive customers for the goods our multinational corporations produce.