1.   Keeping prices low helps to retain customers.

2.   Our service staff have also been working hard to ensure the highest standards in difficult times and to help retain our customers.

3.   And by lowering costs and rates, they could retain customers.

4.   Analysts say banks are stretching the private banking guidelines to acquire and retain customers.

5.   Aronson said stores will have to work hard to retain the customers they have attracted.

6.   As a result of the distributor squeeze, many winemakers have come to rely on direct sales to attract and retain out-of-state customers.

7.   Attracting and retaining customers through aggressive sales and marketing is key, said Huntington Chairman and Chief Executive Frank Wobst.

8.   Banc One has also stopped adding new customers and trying to retain customers.

9.   Banc One, which said four key executives have left the company in recent months, stopped adding new customers or retaining customers.

10.   Because the industry is fiercely competitive, companies cannot charge high interest rates up front if they want to attract and retain customers.