As a vendor of wildly popular, high-end consumer gadgets, Apple would seem to be particularly vulnerable.
Some big customers like Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden) loved Blodgett equipment, but hated the service and were close to dropping the company as a vendor.
By integrating all these parts of the company, HP hopes to be known less as a hardware vendor, and more as a higher-margin strategic partner on big projects.
On Tuesday shares in Akamai Technologies, a software company that helps media to stream quickly, fell 4.8% on speculations that it would be dropped as a vendor by Netflix.
And while that is good for the consumer, it tends to result in margin pressure across the supply chain as the vendor needs to trim costs in order to maintain their margins.
The Furniture Village chain - which, as a vendor of big-ticket durable goods, is particularly sensitive to consumer frugality - reported almost a thousand transactions at its 40 stores by mid-afternoon on Boxing Day, putting it on course to beat the 1, 200 sales it closed on the same day in 2011.
Ironically, Fortune 100 buyers are just as frustrated with the state of their vendor relationships as sellers are.
According to CNET, the introduction of another major Google phone demonstrates its influence as an Android vendor.
He began his career in the 1940s when he was in his early teens, working as a street vendor in Rio de Janeiro.
However, smartphones are a growing space for the Chinese vendor as shipments grew from 3.7 million in 2011 to 23.7 million in 2012.
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Boeing was chosen as the preferred vendor for the heavy-lift helicopter contract after its bid was found to be lowest of two competing companies.
The retailer even executes a transaction flagged off by the fraud detection vendor as possible fraud if the risk involved is small and the customer is loyal.
As the leading Android vendor, HTC has been growing at a prodigious rate for two years.
At the same time, it would seem the open-source wave is actually washing over vendor solutions as well.
Leighton started out in the 1960s as a Greenwich Village vendor of Mexican dresses, sandals and the occasional used trinket.
The result: Max Wang, at Digitimes pointed out Friday that if you factor in count tablet computers, it looks like Apple may be poised to replace Hewlett-Packard as the top notebook vendor.
In fact, it has steadily climbed the charts from being just an entrant in the edge routing business in 2003 to surpassing Juniper as the number 2 vendor in the industry last year.
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You started as a game card vendor.
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As the number one PC vendor in China, Lenovo's PC shipments are greater than that of the next top four vendors combined.
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No other vendor is offering as much functionality in one place (Oracle sells ERP, HCM, Sales and Marketing, now social and soon platform).
This information is rampant in the information security community, but not so much in the vendor community, as evidenced by your reference to the PC Magazine article.
That includes a significant award for basic child support, along with additional expenses paid directly to a vendor, such as private school tuition, medical costs, and child care.
Apple also became the world's top smartphone vendor, with a market share of 23.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, and the top smartphone vendor for 2011 as a whole, with a 19 percent market share.
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With the RF360, Qualcomm hopes to solve the problem and emerge as the go-to vendor for all the handset manufacturers that do not want to grapple with the logistical complexities of selling multiple variants of the same phone globally.
Yet the Fortune 100 buyer continues to view his company as a tactical, niche product vendor.
That means the Journal the FT as well as Amazon and Zinio, a vendor that helps publishers sell digital editions.
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