Ah, comes the reply, we need to maintain price stability in order to support the mystique.
Strong demand for the product will allow the company to maintain price and keep ASPs high.
When the ECB came into existence on June 1, 1998, its overriding objective was to maintain price stability within the European Monetary Union.
One clause even calls for the state to maintain price stability.
Since the ECB has a strict remit to maintain price stability, its dread of high inflation is greater than its fear of recession: hence the rate rise.
"One of the reasons we chose them is that they maintain price integrity on a lot of their brands, " says Scott Bowers, vice president of e-commerce initiatives at Oakley.
"One of the reasons we chose them is they maintain price integrity on a lot of their brands, " says Scott Bowers, vice president of e-commerce initiatives at Oakley Inc.
ECB's treaty-prescribed duty is not to keep the economy at full steam but to maintain price stability, which it defines as a rate of inflation of no more than 2%.
Manufacturers now feel pressured to widen that gap even more to maintain a price advantage.
But these reforms pale into insignificance compared with its decision to maintain the price indexation of the basic state pension.
While British Gas has pledged to use this benefit to maintain its price competitiveness, there has been no such pledge from other suppliers.
Centrica said that "recognising the economic pressures facing many of our customers, the board has determined that any benefit arising from the exceptionally cold weather will be used to maintain our price competitiveness".
With Amazon having substantial experience in operating low-very low margin businesses, we expect the company to further cut down its prices to maintain a price advantage and rely on volumes to drive growth.
In the same vein, while Netflix, as with most companies in entertainment business, struggles to maintain stock price and consumer engagement, the DVD rental kiosk company, Redbox is growing at 40%.
The peace treaty's critics maintain that the price Israel paid was too high and so the treaty was unjustified.
It has to pay a premium for environmentally products and solutions and still maintain a competitive price-point with other five-star luxury resorts in the area.
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Neither would be an easy acquisition for Diageo, but the belief that the company might be interested has been enough to maintain a premium price on the would-be acquisitions.
World of Warcraft (WoW) has helped ATVI maintain its stock price, with this one single game providing roughly 30% of the revenue for the entire company via its expansion packs and monthly payments.
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The company continually tops the charts of AppData.com but can barely maintain a consistent stock price.
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While it appears that Venezuela has paid the highest price to maintain OPEC production quotas lately, others will soon feel the pain.
The Fed has a duel mandate: maintain full employment and price stability.
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Their great achievement and the source of their wealth has been to maintain the image and price of a luxury product, while selling huge volumes.
But to the extent that price controls maintain below-market prices, they simultaneously encourage consumers to buy more and encourage producers to supply less.
Although it appears that it is Venezuela that has lately paid the highest price to maintain OPEC production quotas, others will soon feel the pain.
Amazon seeks to maintain customer loyalty by price, variety and convenience.
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It was the end of the era of trying to maintain a high oil price in the face of falling world demand, brought on by the high oil price.
The plan includes as well reforming the Fed to mandate that it follow a price rule to maintain a stable dollar without inflation.
They only could maintain the artificially higher commodity price as long as they kept buying and storing excess capacity, a leveraged Ponzi game that eventually collapsed.
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