The retail brand, and what it stands for, has become a surrogate for added-value.
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Most of the brainy or so-called added-value activity still takes place at Longbridge.
"Our labor force will ultimately compete on the basis of added-value, " says George Yuen, executive director of the Better Hong Kong Foundation.
But whether related to fiscal or technological innovation, brands that understand that real emotional connections can serve as a surrogate for added-value will always top the list.
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The good news is that the brand can serve as a surrogate for the added-value consumers are looking for, and become a driving factor in the value equation.
Accordingly, a slate of torrent portals like Vodo offers consumers media choices that include outright ownership, no-DRM formats that are transferable to mobile devices, zero pricing, added-value bundles and in some cases rudimentary social discovery environments.
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David Pritchard, an American academic and consultant who has studied both companies, says that Airbus must now send more basic work to cheap-labour countries in Asia with currencies tied to the dollar, keeping only high-added-value stuff and final assembly in Europe.
Behind this, says Mr Spence, is the trend of American multinationals to keep the highest value-added activities at home while shifting lower value-added activities, such as manufacturing, abroad.
If they then start to actually use that investment in some productive way that pays wages and earns a profit, then they start to generate additional value-added from that activity, and that value-added continues to be created as long as they keep doing that productivev activity.
Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, thinks government should be more active in helping British firms, particularly high-tech, high-value-added and creative enterprises.
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.
More than that, fashion is just the sort of thing Britain is supposed to be good at in this post-industrial age: creative, high-value-added, cluster-based.
It started at the simplest of activities in the value chain, then, decision by decision, every time that Dell outsourced the next lowest-value-adding of the remaining activities in its business, Asus added a higher value-adding activity to its business.
China recently began to import some African-manufactured value-added goods, such as processed foods and household consumer goods.
And to do that, he is cleverly signing up so-called value-added resellers (VARs).
EMC, which sold some of its low-value storage to Dell and has been buying value-added analysis companies, is off 0.17%.
It may not be chat (unless a Hangout element is added) but it could be value-added content, discovery or rewards.
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The jewelry interest is the high-carat low value-added jewelry, he said.
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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.
Down-stream commercial and value-added activities development of farming, wood products, and fisheries industry communities.
An ESCO provides energy-efficiency-related and other value-added services and for which performance contracting is a core part of its energy-efficiency services business.
Encourage its companies to make high-tech and high value-added products.
SanDisk today also unveiled a new worldwide distribution channel, "SanDisk for Business, " which offers OEM and enterprise-grade SSDs to value-added resellers (VARs), system integrators and direct market resellers (DMRs).
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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.
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.
What if Congress lowers income tax rates and imposes a consumption tax--perhaps a national sales or value added tax--to make up the difference?
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Finally, as you define your value-added and unique position, you must understand your value.
It may be a broad-based levy such as a Value-Added Tax or an energy tax.
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