Then, to meet unrealistic quarterly profit targets, Kellogg was forced to slash spending for advertising and new product development, which only starved its brands further.
By contrast, Dell competitors Apple and Hewlett-Packard have long concentrated spending heavily on design and new product development, while relying on overseas contract manufacturers to build their machines.
But its existing position in growth markets, technology leadership and well oiled new product development capability nearly assures continued profitbale growth for at least 5 years.
Forum Energy and MRC Global had garnered good investor feedback during their road shows, but Forum was the bigger draw, with a more diversified business of subsea and land-based products and success at new product development.
Our customers need to be agile so they can not only stay ahead of the competition, but also be able to quickly change the underlying behavior and logic of their strategic business systems in customer service, new product development and marketing.
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Even the boot-strappers of the bunch aim to make significant investments in the coming year in everything from computers and office space to new product launches and crucial research and development.
Most economists and experts agree that economic competitiveness is tied to innovative technology development and new product commercialization.
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Outsourcing PC manufacturing allows HP to focus on strategic core competencies, including supply chain design, new product and services development, supplier management and customer relationship management.
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Medbery says the round will be used to expand the New Orleans-based Kickboard team and invest further into product development, particularly better dashboards for teachers that offer new and unique ways of visualizing student performance.
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Like Microsoft before it, Google cultivates developers, with all-day mapping conferences, lunches with Schmidt, work on new coding languages and open-source development, and almost daily postings of new code and product information on a company blog.
The cash balance provides more than sufficient firepower for new product development and patent enforcement.
The company today also announced the opening of a new Automotive Innovation and Product Development Center, to be based in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Consequently, we are extremely pleased with the excitement created by the OLED displays currently in the market, and the increase in new OLED product development that has been encouraged by these initial successes.
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Though business trends decelerated in the fourth quarter, we remain focused on new product development and market share gains to offset the secular declines in the PND industry and the continued generation of long-term shareholder value.
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"The achievements of Wrightbus show that companies can achieve growth by diversifying markets, focusing on new product development and by forming strategic partnerships that enable them quickly to access business opportunities as they develop abroad, " Mrs Foster added.
Scenario development helps them to understand what the future can be like, and drive their product development toward creating new markets with more customers, more unit sales, higher revenues and improved cash flow.
Navin Geria, vice president of research and development for the Spa Dermaceutical Products Group, a New Jersey-based consumer product development company that specializes in custom development of anti-aging skincare and products for dermatologists and spa chains, says that a new range of anti-aging technology called cosmeceuticals (cosmetics that companies says possess drug-like affects) will go a step further.
He has tripled spending on new-product development and is putting the brand on prime-time TV this fall for the first time in three years.
At Rubbermaid he has tripled spending on new-product development and is putting the brand on prime-time TV this fall for the first time in three years.
This new ownership will provide many opportunities, including continued product improvement, increased marketing support, funding for new product development, and manufacturing support to help control and reduce costs.
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Each Monday morning at Apple, CEO Tim Cook meets with the other nine members of the executive team, just as Jobs did before him, to review the business, look at how existing products are faring, discuss every new product under development and talk over issues affecting the company.
The next versions of the iPad, iPhone, iMac and iTunes are no doubt well along the product development path, and no doubt other new things are under way that no one is talking about yet.
Their efforts will benefit from both the financial support and expertise of the new owner, including supply-chain management, product development and logistics, says Mr. Babeau.
For example, Bill Hornbuckle at MGM is filling an expanded CMO (and President) mandate with new responsibility for product development.
These transactions and related strategic agreements will enable both companies to better align their current and future product development efforts and roadmaps, accelerate time-to-market for new products and position the companies to better address rapidly evolving opportunities in markets including, but not limited to, mobile computing, cloud computing and solid state storage.
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The committee became a board-within-the-board, tackling issues of new product development, competitive strategy, and priorities.
Houzz, which has about 60 employees, is focusing with the new funding on building out its team in engineering and product development.
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This ability to envision new combinations of cloud-based solutions and create new ways of performing end-to-end processes presents companies with new opportunities to be innovative in new-product development as well as in service and support.
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Tim Fritzley of Intune Networks said the Belfast research and development centre would "develop key subsystems of our new product line".
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