The government's resistance to price increases leaves consumer-product companies in a tight spot.
Other pregnancy-product companies would surely love to have access to this data.
The grocery chains and consumer-product companies Hofstetter expected to show up for a stadium filled with soccer moms and their kids never materialized.
Product companies are becoming more sophisticated at analyzing the total landed cost, also referred to as total cost of ownership, to produce their products.
Today, it is particularly the consumer product companies that are putting customers at the center of innovation, involving them in product design and service development.
Danone is bracing for a slow recovery of its European business, highlighting the growing pressure on consumer-product companies from the euro zone's deepening economic malaise.
Mr. Smith ended our discussion by recapping the above and adding that business owners must move beyond thinking of their companies as a product companies.
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Product compliance is a major concern among product companies in the U.S., as more and more regulations are imposed and U.S. society continues to be litigious.
Companies continue to increase the number of suppliers in their supply chain, consistent with the trend of product companies moving towards becoming brand owners and shedding captive manufacturing capacity.
Each quarter they pick up to 80 items to pass along to 100 consumer product companies, and each client gets the same collection of 20 gewgaws, delivered in a box.
Product companies and OEMs are cautiously optimistic about 2013.
Business-to-consumer product companies show the biggest increases in expected growth in marketing budgets (8.6%) and marketing budgets as a percent of firm budgets (17.4%), but not marketing budget as a percent of firm revenues (9.8%) which is dominated by business-to-consumer services companies (16.1%).
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The largest consumer product companies have seen their chief marketing officers engage with software as a service (SaaS) providers to design and run their outbound marketing programs to launch new products and animate their loyalty programs, without a word with their internal IT organizations.
In order to access this rich stream of transaction and usage data and remain competitive, all product companies will have to think about technologies that bridge the offline and online worlds to provide a suite of compelling digital services around the physical things they make.
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But rather than condemn their litigation--which just might be making stepladders and lawn mowers slightly safer--I would criticize lawyers for something else entirely, and that is their writing ability. (It's a fair assumption that lawyers are drafting those encyclopedic hazard warnings.) I propose that consumer product companies fire the lawyers who write safety warnings.
For the new Apple product, companies will turn back to sponsorships they've cut from tight marketing budgets, says Lincoln Bjorkman, executive vice president and executive creative director of New York region at Publicis' Digitas.
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The freemium nature of the product means that some companies and systems integrators will use the product without paying, further reducing the potential revenue stream.
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Instead of rewarding companies for building the same product, we should reward companies who continuously improve designs and cut costs over time.
Regional DRs have become a new product solution for companies looking to tap equity markets worldwide.
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Presumably, boards judged that the industry-wide resurgence was the product of their companies' individual strokes of genius.
It needs to be clear because the product is the way that product-culture companies make the playing field uneven.
In product after product, local companies in China are gaining market share at the expense of their international competitors.
That means we can focus on taking more product risks than companies that have more of an acquisition type of strategy.
Secular drivers such as environmental regulations and increasing product returns for companies entering the e-commerce segment will also support this growth.
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"This is classic disruptive innovation, where the mainstream dismisses the product and small companies have time to create a real differentiated value, " says Staten.
However, emerging markets continue to be an excellent source of revenue and product development for companies outside of the automotive industry, and Nissan wants to gain from that.
Conversely, if a competitor launches a breakthrough product first, companies ought to follow quickly and hopefully at a competitive price point by focusing primarily on the attributes that differentiate it.
Idealab's ( www.idealab.com) only product is other companies.
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