They were also favored by Japanese institutions, which were the main buyers of these instruments.

Market sources said that mutual funds were the main buyers.

Instead, they urged the public, primarily the young people who are the main buyers of Members Only clothes, to join the battle against drugs.

"Our main buyers were hockey players, who were 95 percent male and between 18 and 25 years old," he said.

The main buyers of a company are rarely set in stone.

At the end of the 1980s, the power station was shut down, and without its main buyer the mine closed in 1990.

Sales for the product were "excellent" in its first year, with main buyers being restaurants and hotels.

Supermarkets are now the main buyers of fish and expect steady supplies.

Suddenly it was realised that the main buyers were small businessmen.

The firm exports to 75 countries, but the British are still the main buyers.