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Hereinafter, we generally use the acronym ADI
indiscriminately to refer to petitioners, to ADI, and to the ADI-
related corporations.
FINDINGS OF FACT
Some of the facts have been stipulated and are so found.
At the time the petitions were filed, both petitioners’
principal places of business were located in Reno, Nevada.
ADI and its related corporations buy and sell manufactured
homes in the same manner.
Manufactured homes are constructed at a factory location and
are then transported directly to homesites of retail purchasers.
ADI has been selling manufactured homes for more than 30
years, and ADI has become the largest seller of manufactured
homes in Arizona and one of the largest sellers of manufactured
homes in the Southwestern United States. In recent years, ADI
has expanded its sales of manufactured homes to 192 locations in
22 states.
From the 1970s through the late 1990s, ADI purchased
completed manufactured homes from unrelated manufacturers and
sold the manufactured homes directly to retail customers using
individual salespersons who worked for ADI as employees.
In the late 1990s, however, as a result of a significant
decline in business and excessive costs such as employee wages
and commissions, a number of manufacturers of manufactured homes
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