Home builder planning to be web provider

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Toll Brothers Inc., a luxury homes builder in Huntington Valley, PA, is providing internet services, digital cable television and a possible telephony services through its subsidiary Advanced Broadband Communications L.P. to further maintain its relationship with home buyers.

United States, Marketing procedures, COMMUNICATION, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Telecommunications industry, Toll Brothers Inc., TOL, Advanced Broadband Communications L.P.

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Small hardware store sees service as key to viability

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Philadelphia, PA-based Yaskin Induserve Supply new owner Scott Foster believes that providing quality service to customers will help the business compete with mega-retailers such as The Home Depot and specialty chains such as Restoration Hardware. Foster, who acquired the store from the Yaskin family in May 1998, is running the seven-employee business along with longtime store manager Bob Billbrough. To ensure service to clients, Foster is also computerizing inventory and preparing for electronic ordering. Yaskin will expand its sales floor to make room for more of the esoteric items that are difficult to find elsewhere.

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New owner Scott Foster believes that providing quality svc to client will help bsns compete w/ mega-retailers & specialty chains

Hardware Stores, Article, Yaskin Induserve Supply

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A new type of house call: Health data on the Web

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Philadelphia, Penn.-based Earthmed.com is an online company that offers services for manufacturers and consumers of alternative medicine. The area is witnessing an explosion of Internet-related firms that bring together the health care, high-tech, insurance and communications sectors.

On-Line Information Services, Videotex & Teletext, Telegraph & other communications, Internet services, EarthMed.com

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