The unseen in this case involves money not spent on other consumer goods not subsidized by government giveaway programs.
Cheap Chinese toys, locks, and other consumer goods are flooding into India.
Manufacturers and processors are starting to expand in the Fourth District, using the natural gas both for power and to make other consumer goods.
Now firms add millions of new phone subscribers to their books each month, and sales of cars, scooters and other consumer goods are surging.
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Consider that while spending on all other consumer goods and services has increased 8x over the last 40 years, healthcare spending has increased 274x.
Although the Fed may on its own go for another round of quantitative easing, higher commodity prices are beginning to flow through into growth-choking price increases in gasoline, autos, and other consumer goods.
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European drinks makers, along with other consumer-goods companies, have pushed deeper into developing markets such as China and Russia in recent years, hoping to offset slowing sales of premium spirits in austerity-hit Europe.
Though Unilever made public statements in March about impending price increases on its products due to rising commodity costs, the NDRC statement released Friday did not suggest Unilever colluded with other consumer-goods makers on prices.
In the components industry, as in many other industrial and consumer goods industries in China, there are hundreds, even thousands, of individual customers and competitors, which include state-owned companies, private companies and foreign invested enterprises.
Broughton's compensation is calculated according to a series of comparisons (applied in various ways to the different components of his compensation package) with other British multinationals and also with with similar fast-moving consumer goods companies and other FTSE-100 companies.
Recovery will lead to rising demand for new cars and other high-ticket consumer goods.
Though the U.S. has strong leaders in some sectors like retail, banking, insurance and financial services, other businesses, like consumer goods and telecommunications, are not attracting the same level of leadership, says Burke.
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And they will do quite well for at least another decade or two, living off mainstream industries such as autos, consumer electronics, semiconductors and other capital goods as they make a transition to a more investor and consumer-friendly society.
Even so, as with all sorts of other industries, from carmaking to consumer goods, Chinese consumers are splashing so much money about that it is too big an opportunity for Western firms to ignore.
Its specialisation in investment goods, cars and other expensive consumer products makes the upswings higher but downturns sharper.
The profits came on a day when a raft of other European companies posted strong profits, including consumer goods company Unilever, Spanish energy company Repsol-YPF and drug-makers Bayer and AstraZeneca.
If CBS can convince advertisers that the older generation is an attractive market to target as well given higher disposable incomes and greater potential for purchasing consumer goods like iPads, smartphones and other popular items that younger generations might already own, then it could see a rebound in pricing trends.
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The women can now choose from seven companies including Square, a Bangladeshi conglomerate that makes consumer goods like cookies and cooking oil among other things.
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Consumer food cost inflation, relative to all other goods, has risen to twice its 2005-2007 rate of increase as well due to sharp increases in corn, soybean and wheat prices.
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In 2006 the steelmaker embarked on a massive investment and construction project to build blast furnaces to produce high-quality virgin steel for cars, ships and consumer durable goods for parent Hyundai Motor and other customers.
What Mr. Roche leaves out is the enormous impact that outsourcing to China will have on world labor markets, the massive displacement that this will cause, and thus the offsetting negative effect--due to decreases in demand from laid-off workers in other parts of the world--on price deflation in consumer-goods markets.
The unit will be available for sale worldwide through sporting goods retailers, consumer electronics retailers, online outlets, and other channels, by March, 2013.
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After establishing its expertise as a global provider of logistics services involving vehicle shipments, the company has reached into other industries: steel, machinery, heavy chemicals, energy, construction and consumer goods.
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That Germany should try to wind back the clock and start producing the low-end consumer goods that for years now it has imported from China or other cheaper centres of production?
The Fed's hawkish credibility, along with cheap goods from China and other low-wage countries, has helped to keep consumer-price inflation relatively tame despite exceptionally loose monetary policy.
But there are two other industry groups that are not yet mentioned enough when mobile payments are discussed: retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies.
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