1.   Typically, technology innovators emphasise exports as the initial route for expansion and set up local sales subsidiaries to ensure proper control.

2.   Band B operators are allowed to establish cellular phone services in competition with local subsidiaries of Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras SA, the state-controlled telephone holding company.

3.   Ford, which divested itself of its South African assets during apartheid, has been buying back in and this year took complete ownership of its local subsidiary.

4.   In September, the company set up a local subsidiary and began importing beer legally from its plant in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

5.   Kaczynski also reportedly has been seen on Trailways buses operated by a local subsidiary called Rimrock, traveling between Missoula and Helena over the past five years.

6.   Previously, such transactions could only be backed by the much smaller capital base of the local subsidiary.

7.   The American drug companies are being misled by their local subsidiaries, which have formed cozy cartels to keep profits up.

8.   The state of Sao Paulo and its local Telebras subsidiary, Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo SA, will form a new company in region III.

9.   These modern, efficient plants proved the catalyst for fundamental changes at Ford and Vauxhall, the local subsidiary of General Motors.

10.   Through a local subsidiary, G. Premjee has an office in Ho Chi Minh City and is one of the top three buyers of Vietnamese coffee.