Big department stores and specialty clothiers, both expected to increase sales about 4%, will lag behind.
This pipeline is especially helpful to Graff with big stones, his specialty.
This is the push of big pharma into less financially risky specialty therapeutics that people have been predicting for a long time.
Finally, Louis Navellier , editor of Blue Chip Growth Letter, is still a big believer in consumer stocks, particularly specialty and discount retailers.
They have long supported big hospitals' efforts to ban doctor-owned specialty hospitals.
Houston-based specialty chemical company Lyondell Chemical is also a big new buy.
Big biotechs rose from 4 percent to 10 percent, while specialty pharma rose from 2 percent to 15 percent, and generics climbed from 8 percent to 16 percent.
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Generally, large drug companies do not buy specialty pharmaceutical firms, because the drugs the smaller companies sell are not big enough.
It has a specialty pharmaceutical division, which it bought in 2007, that will now have a big customer plugged in as a subsidiary.
And they took in from the slaughter houses big, you know, an entire side of beef, which they would then butcher into specialty cuts.
To supplement the company's pipeline, Hassan might buy a biotech or specialty-drug company, or a Japanese firm to help gain traction in the big market opening up there.
"You can get away with it at a big-box store, with mostly lower skilled retail positions, " he says, noting that a specialty electronics chain like Best Buy generally requires more knowledgeable workers.
The big break for Chuao came in 2005, when it won a coveted award from the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, helping put the then three-year-old chocolatier on the culinary map.
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