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/^t/The main aim of publicity is to promote goods or services and to win customers. Sometimes, however, large-scale marketing and a loud advertising campaign serve as a method of eliminating the competition. As a result, weaker companies collapse, leaving the magnate in full control of the market. Such actions not only undermine small enterprise, but also do harm to a vast number of customers, left, as it were, at the tycoon s mercy.