Another layer

Jack Gilbert
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Hammer, Cloud Distribution and VIP are among the distributors enhancing, or even building their own, products. Jack Gilbert asks what's driving the trend.

There is a scene in the film Layer Cake where Michael Gambon's character, Eddie Temple, nonchalantly tells Daniel Craig's beleaguered character: "The art of good business is being a good middleman....

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