Rather than take the hits, some of them sued their investment bank for selling them poor products or giving bad advice.
Big brands can no longer get away with unresponsive customer service, lackadaisical content and poor quality products.
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The West Texas seed had a reputation for poor by-products, and therefore brought low prices.
In an age when social media gives customers greater power to speak out about poor services or products, airlines realize "there's not point trying to change or hide this type of information, " Wong said.
The Europeans, in turn, agreed to get rid of subsidies in certain products that matter to poor countries (without naming what those products might be).
"We simply do not produce poor humor or offensive products, " Fowler wrote.
The bad news is that European consumers are very quality-sensitive and generally have a poor image of Asian products (whether it's justified or not).
Mr Mbeki also warned that G8 members must lift trade barriers on farm products from poor countries in order to lift millions out of poverty in the continent.
"Made in Japan" equated to poor workmanship and cheap products.
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Expensive, poor performing variable annuity insurance products dominate this niche that many mutual fund companies seemly ignore.
That is fine, but Mr Finger notes that most of the countries in the new plan make the same products as other poor economies currently exporting to Europe.
But delegates from Third World countries have vigorously opposed such criteria, arguing that they are a disguised form of protectionism which will keep out products produced by poor people.
Copa-Cogeca singled out meat production by Mercosur, saying it tolerated growth hormones banned in the EU, poor labour conditions and genetically modified products.
Newer products have struggled with poor consumer sentiment on the vehicles.
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They attempted to tackle the daunting question: how do you design credit products that work for the poor, not against them?
The poor external reputation of China's products hurts not only Chinese companies but also Western firms known to be selling Chinese-made goods.
For the truly poor, a decision to purchase branded products that have social value may lead them to miss a meal or go without healthcare.
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This lavish support distorts prices and blocks market access for poor countries that are natural exporters of farm products.
Poor countries have often been the dumping ground for products banned in the West as unhealthy.
We, the rich people of the world, buy the products of those factories staffed by the poor but getting ever less poor people of the world.
Nestle is one of the rare corporation who invest significantly in poor countries and unlike others does not simply sell its products to those countries.
Avon Products (AVP) is expected to report poor fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 with analysts expecting a 30.8% drop in earnings from a year ago.
But GE and TCS are doing something more exciting than fiddling with existing products: they are taking the needs of poor consumers as a starting point and working backwards.
Arguments about the poor quality of pirated cassette tapes no longer hold with digital products.
Poor countries need to sell their labour-intensive and farm products to rich ones.
On Saturday, a prominent member of Germany's governing CDU party, Hartwig Fischer, told Bild newspaper that products tainted with horsemeat should be distributed to the poor.
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"If you look at what comes out of U.S. universities in terms of creation of products and companies, it's a pretty poor return on taxpayer money, " says Pritchard.
For decades, the advice investors got from Wall Street was hardly independent and the products marketed were generally high cost, as well as poor performing.
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