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Some boutique companies focus on re-creating classic or vintage effects.

These traits have also garnered him endorsement deals with many notable musical instrument boutique companies.

Even further from the mainstream of today's point-and-shoot photography are specialized fine-art papers made and sold by boutique companies.

Some small boutique companies - mostly catering to noise and other experimental musicians - still manufacture simple oscillator-and-ring mod devices.

Other versions of the Super-Fuzz circuit are available from boutique companies like 73 Effects and Black Cat.

Tetsuo Akinaga ran many large and complex businesses in Tokyo, but his favorites were his smaller boutique companies.

The Hulme F1 is an expected sports car manufactured by New Zealand boutique company Hulme Supercars Ltd.

The 150 constituents of Business for Wilderness range from small boutique companies like Black Diamond, which manufactures high-quality climbing gear, to large businesses like the backpack maker Jansport.

He currently works on commission and operates Thunderbolt Mountain Miniatures, a boutique company for pet projects involving dioramas, 54 mm figurines, and a new series of elves and goblins.

Independent in vision and financing, five of these films, including Cassavetes' landmark 1959 first feature, "Shadows," were released last week in a DVD boxed set from the boutique company Criterion.

"I've only had two situations over 20 years," said John Wollberg, the executive vice president and founder of the Atco Residential Group, a boutique company that handles both rentals and sales, mostly upper-end.

Mini-Majors: Here Today If you think of Hollywood as a three-layer cake with the major studios on top and the independents on the bottom, the rather squashy middle layer consists of the mini-majors or boutique companies.

Joilicious Records is an American independent record label formed in 2005 by R&B Singer Joi The boutique company is also the umbrella for Dirty Debutante Productions, a production company also formed by Joi.

The owner of a 12-person boutique company, Ms. Grubman has long been surrounded by the clients of her father, Allen Grubman, a prominent entertainment lawyer who represents Elton John, Bruce Springstein, Michael Jackson, Sting and Sean (Puffy) Combs.

The result is that the network effects that worked against Apple in the eighties, making it essentially a boutique company, are now working in its favor: the more apps Apple's products have, the more people want to use them, which, in turn, makes developers want to develop for them, and so on.

Faced with increased costs for materials like steel and certain plastics, the major appliance makers - from big names including G.E., Maytag and Whirlpool to boutique companies like Sub-Zero and Fisher & Paykel - have quietly put through price rises of 2 to 10 percent in recent months.