One result is to turn what was once a commodity product into a self-contained service.
They all blew us away with their new take on a commodity product that we thought we knew.
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By year-end it aims to put most of its 17 fixed-income, currency and commodity product lines on Web ET.
In recent years, an increasing number of businesses have realized that they can differentiate a commodity product by offering great customer service along with that product.
Customers are getting more and more demanding, looking for a customised solution delivered within days, and no longer willing to accept a commodity product in weeks.
The personal computer will not die, but merely be relegated to the background as a niche, mostly commodity, product.
Often companies are even placed out of business when they are no longer able to offer a product, commodity or service at a reasonable price as a result of over-regulation.
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Higher commodity costs and costs to support product markets slightly offset sales in North America, the U.S. auto company said.
Add to this mix a jump in inflation, in part the product of a global commodity boom, and the result has been one of the most challenging economic and policy environments in memory.
If the full economic benefits, externalities included, of energy independence are also taken into the equation, then we could well see CO2 go from a despised and destructive waste product to a valuable commodity.
All this for a cost that is certain to be 5 to 10 times the price of stocks and bonds for an indexed ETF, and much worse if one pays the huge price of some of the commodity partnerships being sold by the product manufacturers that have a bit of a conflict of interest on this topic.
The female "big moment" is yet another commodity, a marketing opportunity, a product landing zone.
This is the benchmark gasoline product traded on the major commodity exchanges.
With 23 product groups pushing 82, 000 commodity products onto the market, it had decentralized itself into near-dysfunction.
With 23 product groups pushing 82, 000 commodity products onto the market, the company had decentralized itself into near-dysfunction.
The whole notion of transforming wine into an object, a product, a pseudo-quantifiable commodity, it is profoundly repugnant.
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Automotive margins have been under pressure due to increasing commodity prices as well as higher material and product-related costs.
Barclays, in a daily commodity research report, said palladium exchange-traded product outflows have hit some 21, 000 ounces so far in December following outflows of 84, 800 ounces in November.
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The broader benefit of all that science: "Having the technical product helps Air Products also sell the commodity gases" to those same customers, says Alain Harrus, former tech chief at chip-equipment maker Novellus.
Twenty-three product groups are now four, based not on commodity silicon but around "solutions, " in networking equipment, automotive, cellular and entertainment.
This is an important corner to turn for any digital product because of the potential elevation from a price-sensitive commodity to a locked-in ecosystem subject to the expansive laws of network effects.
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Investing in product development around the world, including China, Ford faced higher commodity and structural costs, while it saw sales increase and it paid off its debt.
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One of the things I found as I came back to the company a number of years ago was that we had denigrated product quality on a number of our businesses, partly in response to rising commodity costs.
Product groups, now 4 (down from 23), are based not on commodity silicon but on "solutions" -- in networking equipment, automotive, cellular and entertainment.
As opposed to commodity generics--which are clones of the original drug--supergenerics differ from the original product in formulation or method of delivery.
Samsung wants to reduce its reliance on commodity semiconductors, or DRAMs, whose profits vary wildly depending on the ups and downs of the product cycle.
India's high current-account deficit, which hit a record 6.7% of gross domestic product in the October-December quarter, is expected to narrow this year aided by falling global commodity prices.
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