Samsung will continue to concentrate on value-added products such as server and mobile DRAM.
"Where New Hampshire competes is in producing high value-added products that require a significantly trained workforce, " he says.
But Asia has to diversify, because too many countries make the same things and China makes low value-added products cheaper.
As wages rise, manufacturers find themselves unable to compete either with lower-cost producers elsewhere or, in higher-value-added products, with more advanced economies.
Investing in Novelis could give it a technology edge, and having value-added products in its portfolio would provide a hedge against volatile aluminum prices.
Encourage its companies to make high-tech and high value-added products.
In time, integrated producers will be able to maintain an undisputed advantage only in markets for the best-quality, highest value-added products, such as those used in cars and household appliances.
On the components business side, demand for PC DRAM remained weak but growth of high value-added products such as server and mobile DRAM was constant due to increased sales of mobile devices.
ENGADGET: Samsung reports $8.27 billion in profits for Q4 2012 HD
My cynical side could argue that, as virtualization gets to operating in over 50% of servers (due sometime about 2012), VMware has to both keep gaining customers there, but also selling new kinds of value-added products.
His spending program, known locally as the Economic Transformation Plan, is a bid to drag Malaysia out of the so-called middle-income trap, which forces many emerging economies to compete with each other in producing cheap exports instead of developing more-sophisticated, value-added products.
Despite weaker than expected panel demand due to the economic slowdown in Europe and low seasonality, Samsung's total TV panel shipments increased in the low 10-percent range on-year due to strong sales of high, value-added products such as panels for 3D TVs and LED TVs.
Innovative technologies and strategic BI solutions, which go beyond just game-day analytics to manage big data on mobile platforms and which can be delivered on the premises or in the cloud, can not only transform their operations but also continue to deliver value-added products and services, improving the overall fan experience.
"Despite uncertainties in Europe and concerns over the U.S. fiscal cliff creating a difficult business environment, we did our best this quarter to achieve strong earnings based on a strategic focus on differentiated and high value-added products as well as our technological competitiveness, " said Robert Yi, Senior Vice President and Head of Investor Relations.
ENGADGET: Samsung reports $8.27 billion in profits for Q4 2012 HD
The 2012 data show that traditional labor-intensive products such as textiles, suitcases and toys grew by 1.2 percent year over year, 5.7 percent and 5.8 percent, respectively, while higher-value added products such as mechanical products grew 8.7 percent, and auto exports were up 20 percent.
The final sign of a turnaround, which I call "long-term value creation, " occurs if and when the country's leaders seriously address long-term competitiveness issues: quality of products, value-added component of exports, acquisition of state-of-the-art technology and educational reforms.
Despite adverse market conditions, Samsung's chip business was buoyed by strong demand for server DRAM and by expanding our value-added product mix such as products based on the 30-nanometer-class and 20-nanometer-class process technologies.
Down-stream commercial and value-added activities development of farming, wood products, and fisheries industry communities.
Other companies, such as United Parcel Services and IBM, successfully stepped back and redefined what businesses they were in to create value-added services that built on their core products.
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It has happened because rich-world companies have replaced workers with new technology to boost productivity and shifted production from labour-intensive products such as textiles to higher-tech, higher value-added, sectors such as pharmaceuticals.
Should we lament a trade deficit in iPhones or any other products assembled abroad, particularly when those products comprise U.S. value-added and support high-paying U.S. jobs?
Some of the battles are easy to predict: domestic businesses v. multinationals, manufacturers v. service firms, business whose value-added is in their intellectual property v. those who deal in commodity products.
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This can be as simple as adding a targeted Hispanic value-added message and impression to an existing web page in order to establish an association between a company, their products or services, and the Hispanic community.
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