For many companies, it is that point in time when they land their first big customer.
HP's first big customer for its product is Royal Philips Electronics' semiconductor division in the Netherlands.
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The fact is that Britain is a top arms exporter and Indonesia is a big customer.
They did express concern that budget cuts could eventually reduce shipments by the federal government, a big customer.
Time Warner was to be a big customer, but then its much-hyped network project in Orlando, Florida, fizzled.
It encourages even its closest suppliers to diversify away from an unhealthy dependence on a single, big customer.
Time Warner was to be a big customer, but then its much-hyped network project in Orlando, Fla. infamously fizzled.
Since 2001 Lamar Advertising, the third-largest billboard operator in the U.S., has been a big customer of Daktronics' digital signs.
Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) is a big customer of IDT's integrated chips.
Milchovich, brought in from Kaiser Aluminum in late 2001, narrowly avoided bankruptcy by convincing ExxonMobil, a big customer, not to defect.
Mayer didn't clinch a deal with a second big customer, leaving Freescale acutely vulnerable to the ups and downs of Motorola.
If you are a big customer you can put up Treasury bills as the 10% collateral and keep the interest they generate.
Mayer had hoped to woo a second big customer--and reportedly came close.
This has its own problems, as firms do not like to be dependent on a single big customer with notoriously fickle demands.
Emirates, another big customer for the A380, is also less than delighted.
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Tobacco farmers, who used to cohabit comfortably with the Tobacco Control Board, now have one big customer, Rembrandt, which has squeezed their margins.
It has a specialty pharmaceutical division, which it bought in 2007, that will now have a big customer plugged in as a subsidiary.
The row has delayed the government's plans to privatise BNFL and soured relations with Japan - which was due to be a big customer of Mox fuel.
As for inventory and accounts receivable, it's not uncommon for those to be discounted by as much as 50% (for fear of, say, one big customer having a financial meltdown).
Since 2001 Lamar Advertising (nasdaq: LAMR - news - people ), the third-largest billboard operator in the U.S., has been a big customer of Daktronics' digital signs.
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That could be something such as adding more drivers in Chicago, adding an hour in mandated break time for drivers or having a big customer change the location of its distribution center.
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The U.S. government is another big customer: Aramark provides lodging and tours not only to Ellis Island but to such U.S. national parks as Denali National Park in Alaska (home of Mount McKinley).
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