In a mature industry, apparel vendors are always looking for new ways to leverage their existing assets.
So the big message of Concorde's 30th birthday may be that civil aviation is, technically at least, a mature industry.
"Retail is a mature industry that tends to grow at the pace of the economy, " says University of Florida finance professor Jay Ritter.
These can include building new companies from inception, restructuring companies to better face the future or consolidating participants in mature industry to drive profitability.
Television is a mature industry driven by quality before anything else.
Naysayers argue that enterprise technology, still the bulk of overall tech spending, is a mature industry with a greater focus on cost savings than dramatic disruption.
General Mills is no stranger to the occasional outbreaks of profit-busting promotional wars that routinely occur as players in a mature industry jostle for position in the grocery aisles.
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Today, this cloudy nation leads the world in household solar installations per capita and boasts a mature solar industry.
It is aimed squarely at international growth markets, rather than the war for market share in America's more mature Internet industry.
We expect growth to resume as notebook growth should remain at moderate levels as notebooks have crossed the early growth phase of the product cycle and now starting to mature as an industry.
But as an industry starts to mature, it starts to matter more, and you need to get a better handle on, say, Yahoo!
For the solar energy industry to truly mature, it needs a performance model that can offer investors confidence and predictability in their return on investment.
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In the less-mature green chemicals and biofuels industry, Milroy not only wants to own a piece of this incredible growth potential, he wants to lead it.
But now they have lots of capital tied up in a mature, even declining, industry that cannot control its costs properly, it is time for them to take command.
But the security industry is NOT mature.
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We actually have, even though we're not -- the industry is nowhere near mature.
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While a few firms have come unstuck over drugs faltering in clinical trials, a solid core of big, successful firms such as Celltech and Shire is reassuring investors that Britain's biotechnology sector is a better long-term bet than, say, Germany's less mature, and less profitable, industry.
Some differences from the West's will fade as the industry and China's economy mature and the country's internet population grows older and richer.
When these mature industries are foreign, supporters of the infant industry argument call for tariffs, a tax on foreign goods, to force the foreign price above the already higher price of the infant domestic goods.
At the same time, the industry must tackle the problem of overcapacity in mature markets.
The study carried out by the UK gaming industry found many parents thought their children were mature enough not to be influenced by the content of the games, and parents tended to view them as a guide to the content rather than a prohibition.
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There have been few major advances in functionality in the industry, it seems: a sign that it has become mature (which CRM definitely has) or possibly even commoditized.
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