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Grainger: United States
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CHICAGO -- Grainger, North America's leading supplier of facilities maintenance products, announced a multi-year branch expansion program to increase its market presence in the United States. The program will begin in three metropolitan markets, Atlanta, Denver and Seattle, with larger branches and additional sales personnel. Over the next three to five years, the company will assess and reinforce local availability of products and sales coverage to increase service to customers in 25 major metropolitan markets as well as in selected secondary markets. Grainger expects to fund the first phase of the program by ongoing productivity improvements that reduce the company's overall cost structure.
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P ercy Grainger began playing at War Bond and Liberty Loan concerts to help raise badly needed funds for the war cause. As an encore for some of these concerts he would frequently improvise on a Handkerchief Dance called "Country Gardens". It was quite well received, and he scored it for piano one night in his barracks as a birthday present for his mother. The published version broke Schirmer's sales records for the previous seventy-five years and continued to do so for the next twenty, selling at a rate of over 40.000 copies annually in the United States alone.
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After moving to the United States and spending time as an army bandsman, Grainger wrote for the military band and arranged a number of his popular pieces for band. He ... developed an interest in jazz, declaring that ‘the three greatest composers are Bach, Delius and Duke Ellington’.
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