That left a handful of companies in the running, relatively small outfits with limited experience.

A small outfit would be likely to rent rather than own.

If you're starting with a smaller outfit your immediate rivals are of more importance.

It would be a small outfit; just a few men, but under smart direction.

"The small outfits give them greater freedom of movement, actually."

They came in with a roar and bought up a bunch of the smaller outfits who started this whole thing.

They met on the midway 30 years ago and have been running their own small outfit ever since.

France created a similar but smaller outfit in 1975.

Although the business is still dominated by small outfits, some bigger companies have been buying up the little guys.

We're a very small outfit, and we just jumped in with both feet.