It blamed competition from cheap entry-level products in emerging markets, a category it does not participate in.
They were placed eighth in the competition and their entry Lipstick has gone on to top the charts in Germany, Austria and Sweden.
Failing sometimes is inevitable unless one is protected from competition by regulation or entry barriers.
To defend a claim of monopolization, it is generally required to show that the alleged monopolist enjoys protection from competition through barriers to entry.
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Additionally, to defend a claim of monopolization, it is generally required to show that the alleged monopolist enjoys protection from competition through barriers to entry.
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The 125cc category is the entry level competition in MotoGP.
These include Nokia's tactical decision not to meet certain aggressive pricing of some competitors, as well as overall market competition, including the entry markets, and the temporary impact of a slower ramp-up of a mid-range Nokia device.
Talackova said earlier her entry in the competition is about equality, even if some believe pageants are demeaning.
"Apple's entry created new competition in eBook distribution and a vastly larger pool of eBook consumers, " it wrote in its motion.
TRW's entry in a competition for the NMD kill vehicle was rejected in favor of an alternative, using different technology, being built by Hughes (now a subsidiary of Raytheon Corporation).
"The reality is that Apple's entry arrested all price competition, " Mr. Buterman said.
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The price of entry is low, competition is fierce, and tastes are fickle.
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As we've seen vividly in the U.S., the Internet lessens the barrier to business entry and the increased competition will squeeze out those who are slow to adapt.
Crazy as it sounds, even though venture capitalists stand to benefit individually by reduced capital gains taxes--partners split 20% to 30% of a fund's profits--the reduced rates would also lower entry barriers for new competition in the form of angels and corporations.
Government can also grant monopoly status, barriers to entry and protection from foreign competition.
Since competition was limited by constraints on firm entry and growth, badly managed firms were not rapidly driven from the market.
Daily deals once excited Wall Street because of their high margins, but low barriers to entry invited a raft of competition from related businesses, which forced a re-rating of Groupon and the industry as a whole.
The company has little bargaining power with product suppliers, and no barriers of entry to protect its businesses from competition.
AirAsia's entry is likely to stir up competition in India's domestic aviation market which is also hit by high operational and finance costs and, lately, a drop in passenger traffic.
So you do the work you can around the margins, and try to create as much competition as possible, and remove barriers to entry on the supply-side, and then you work on expanding access.
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The quality of Nigerian crude means that IOCs have little alternative but to continue to operate in the country, where competition has increased in recent years with the entry of IOCs from China, India and South Korea.
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When it comes to broadband competition, the FCC should remove barriers to entry for wireless broadband operators seeking to deploy 4G wireless technologies, and eliminate the disincentives facing telcos for deploying fiber beyond the 55 million U.S. homes that were served as of March 2012.
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It marks Microsoft's entry into the PC hardware market, posing competition to other computer manufacturers.
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The decision created even higher thresholds to entry for new market participants, which hinders competition and leads to less innovation.
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Visit the Student Journalism Competition page to find out more including eligibility criteria and entry guidelines and to read and listen to previous winning entries.
Coming in first place, by the way, in the bedandbreakfast.com pancake competition is a long-shot, dark-horse entry: a lemon-blueberry ricotta-cheese pancake with a sweet lemon sauce, garnished with fresh strawberries.
Still many pros say the high entry fee is discouraging them, despite the favorable competition.
It will create higher standards to entry for new market participants while hindering innovation and competition.
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Only one entry is allowed per listener per round of the competition (scheduled to be two per day).
Not the least of which is a lower bar of entry for prospective developers, more innovation-spurring competition, and a lot more experimentation.
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