Using social media and word of mouth, the company offered to match the purchase of every unit with an equivalent contribution of product for the victims of Sandy.
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Suddenly he was responsible not just for end-of-period financial reporting but also for a new financial planning and analysis unit, an expanded roster of product finance managers, a newly installed financial system, and occasional meetings with stock analysts.
These manufacturers are able to analyze a price elasticity curve, yielding a forecast of the average unit retail price before product development dollars are spent.
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"Acer is partnering with WD to bring advanced notebook performance and capacity in the smallest form factor, " said David Lee, associate vice president of Mobile Computing Product business unit at Acer.
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Alvarez is banking that fewer, more robust partnerships will yield economies of scale: As each distributor carries more product into stores, the overall per-unit cost of distribution will drop.
Because the number of potential customers for such experimental sensors is small, the firms manufacturing them have to charge a high price per unit just to cover the fixed costs of designing the product, setting up the factory, and so forth.
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Social value starts at the unit of one: one person, one community, one product or service.
Rather than excluding an entire pharmaceutical giant for example, which many say is impractical, limit the exclusion to the product or business unit that was the locus of the fraud.
Trinity told her its parent, a unit of OppenheimerFunds, had recently hired Callan for a "significant" product evaluation but no more.
"Nokia continues to lead the field in NFC with this latest implementation on the Windows Phone platform, in which we have the full support of Orange, " said Ilari Nurmi, head of product marketing for Nokia's Smart Devices business unit.
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Curiously, one product that's currently immune from the announcement is the Next Unit of Computing (NUC), a miniature barebones system that will see continual development from Intel.
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Example: Last week, Lands' End , a unit of Sears Holdings, rolled out a huge new online gift guide that breaks down product selections by recipient profiles (say, "baby" or "pet" gifts) and price points.
Economies of scale are the cost savings associated with a larger production size of certain product, the larger the production scale, the lower the per unit product cost.
Economies of scale are the cost savings associated with a larger production scale (size) of certain product, the larger the production scale, the lower the per unit product cost.
The product was popular in the U.K. in the 1970s, became a unit of Cadbury-Schweppes, then was sold to an Israeli investor in 1998.
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