"It's well targeted, if you will, to people in urban markets."

The plants are sold in urban markets as part of the primary health-care system.

"It's very difficult to compete in the urban markets against the national providers," he said.

"The urban market is more or less saturated for a lot of products, but in smaller cities consumers are hungry."

One way to respond to that is to be pushed into urban markets.

He was among the first to recognize country music's expanding audience, particularly in urban markets.

It has already saturated its main urban markets, much as many American franchises have.

These minor roads connected the surrounding areas to the urban market.

The change was made, he said, because "we have sensitivity to the urban market."

Apartment Bank operates in all medium and large urban markets throughout the nation.