The company has also hired a second, independent safety-auditing firm.

There was a significant consolidation among the remaining independent firms.

Make mandatory the audit of executive pay by an independent firm.

Still, brokers who sign up with an independent firm will usually put more in their pockets.

I could find an independent firm and make a deal with them.

Investment banks would later enter the space, however long after independent firms had become well established.

It is one of the largest independent firms in its field, operating from 9 offices, with 28 partners and about 200 employees.

Through cooperation, small, independent firms must be able to stand up to the large chains.

Its history as an independent firm thus spanned much of the 20th century.

I joined up with an independent firm engaged in the import-export business.