And Star Scientific beat industry giant RJR to market with its own low-nitrosamine tobacco.
Capping a string of 50 purchases, Van Weelden just agreed to buy ailing industry giant Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc.
It costs Intel, the industry giant, several billion dollars to build a foundry to make new-generation computer chips.
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Now repifermin is being tested for preventing chemotherapy's side effects, but the market is modest, and HGS faces competition from industry giant Amgen.
Although this figure increased by almost 30% to reach 1.4 GW in 2010, China-based solar industry giant Suntech Power has knocked First Solar from the first position.
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They wanted to change their life around and decided upon a new start-up venture: a coffee cafe chain envisioned as a competitor to the industry giant, Starbucks.
Another industry giant, Germany's Q-Cells, filed for bankruptcy last April.
Glencore and Xstrata, the world's biggest exporter of thermal coal which also produces copper, nickel and zinc, agreed last year on a merger that would create an industry giant.
You can save money on insurance policies by buying them directly from an insurer, such as industry giant TravelGuard, rather than through a middleman, who will charge a marked-up price.
In the case of Wendia, and perhaps in other cases as well, a seasoned executive from an industry giant may become the best pioneer for a new style of business.
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Retailers like Target and industry giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have a lot of catching up to do, as analysts estimate their websites account for only 1% to 2% of their annual sales.
According to the rolling oil rig count by industry services giant Baker Hughes, the oil and gas industry is drilling as much under the first two years of President Barack Obama as it did under the first two years of George W. Bush.
Cairn Energy's links in Bangladesh, for example, gave it a head start in the country's nascent gas industry before the giant oil companies rushed in.
The advertising industry is taking giant leaps by evolving at the speed of technology just ahead of new competitors like Google, Facebook and Apple.
But what is today's niche could be tomorrow's giant industry.
Nowadays, David Braben's Frontier operates in an industry dominated by giant entertainment and technology conglomerates, from Sony to Vivendi to Microsoft, and it can be hugely expensive to create a new product.
That will take time: even after gobbling up Champion, in the industry's biggest deal ever, International Paper, the giant of the industry, has only a meagre 6% share of the world market.
Despite its heft and undeniable importance to the tech industry, the software giant often attracts jibes.
True, Henry Clay Frick was a fellow giant of industry recently dubbed one of America's leading financiers by the New York Times and he and Andrew Carnegie had been partners once.
But in the case of Brazil, the removal of outdoor advertising may well have helped catalyze brands and the Brazilian ad industry to make a giant leap into digital.
The fact that Google, the industry's new giant, sits on a foundation of open-source code buried the idea that it was not powerful or reliable enough for heavy-duty use.
In the high-tech industry, when a giant company like Google makes its Android operating system for free, including the source code and with little or no contract obligations attached to it, it kills any innovation in this industry (country).
But the biggest advantage the gun industry may have is that, unlike the tobacco industry, it offers no giant pot of gold for contingency-fee lawyers.
The authors go on to paint a predictable portrait of a for-profit higher ed industry gone amok, amid giant debt, useless credentials, lobbying and ideological deregulation.
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Conservative anger over the measure helped launch the tea party movement, and conservative groups joined with industry groups to fund a giant public pressure campaign against the legislation.
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As first Apple, then Google's Android, showed that easy access to the mobile internet was the future of phones, the giant of the industry appeared asleep at the wheel.
This is a hypocritical argument, coming as it does from an industry that has perpetrated a giant fraud on the public in lecturing us that college grads have higher incomes than nongrads.
If the end result is that Wal-Mart's wage and health insurance costs rise to the industry average, the retail giant's sway with suppliers and manufacturers will most definitely keep it pumping out goods with the lowest customer price tags.
China has built a giant of an automobile industry, but its legs are weak.
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Yet today, giant firms dominate the industry to an even greater extent than they did in 1994.
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