Still, the decision appears to be a marketing gimmick in the wake of competitive pressures.
FORBES: AT&T Heads To $38, No Sad Faces As Apple Ends iPhone's Mobile Monogamy
Critically, competitive pressures in the sector remain intense which is continuing to erode profit margins.
While the majority of REITs remain passive purchasers for now, competitive pressures are pushing them toward development.
Clauses in collective-bargaining agreements allowed individual firms to stray from wage deals when competitive pressures demanded it.
Under the resulting competitive pressures, prices would fall, consumers would rejoice, and oil company profits would be squeezed.
Traditionally, business investment in capacity at the peak of the cycle has increased competitive pressures, dragging down margins.
He acknowledged that smaller companies, many of which face competitive pressures from the major firms, will be angered by the situation.
Even given the same credit score, lenders might offer different loan terms, because they have different risk models or competitive pressures.
FORBES: Credit Scores Often Unreliable, Warns Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The onset of financial deregulation will only add to these competitive pressures.
Revenues were partially offset by a decline in auction commission margin to 16.4 percent due to competitive pressures to win high value consignments.
In addition to increasing competitive pressures, Nokia has not been able to bring out customized features for emerging markets in a timely manner.
The same processes that bring us more mass-market chain food--higher incomes, more meals outside the home, and competitive pressures--also bring us the wonders of ethnic dining.
Under his watch, Motorola embraced the Android operating systems and eventually sold to Google as the Android led competitive pressures in the smartphone market intensified.
FORBES: Time Will Tell If Yahoo!'s New CEO Will Turn It or Burn It
Generally, MEMS and MEMS-based products don't contend with the same competitive pressures as semiconductors or displays, but as Texas Instruments demonstrates, they aren't immune to it, either.
Enterprises with large incumbent vendors are introducing cloud-based infrastructure and platform alternatives to provide new options, increase competitive pressures, and successfully shift vendor negotiating leverage to their favor.
FORBES: The Enterprise IT Industrial Complex In The Era of Agile IT
Once again, citing competitive pressures, the firm will not comment.
That mostly reflects competitive pressures of the auto industry--only a few carmakers are on the list--but there is an interesting quirk: Toyota Industries, a quarter-owned subsidiary, did make the cut.
Faced with these competitive pressures, BASF may make the best of a bad situation by buying and selling the right to emit carbon from one of several new European markets.
Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton has taken the unusual step of bringing in a non-lawyer as its chief executive, acknowledging the competitive pressures that are squeezing big law firms.
In reality once it was realised that with more than five billion mobile phones in the world all sorts of competitive pressures built up and things started to get messy.
The number of private patients they can take will be capped, which will leave them financially under the government's thumb, and will limit their exposure to competitive pressures from insurance companies.
This is particularly the case in industries with increasing competitive pressures where there is a need to differentiate, expand the reach to the consumer, improve conversion rates, and sustain customer loyalty.
Some large stores had begun testing the market in recent years and there was a danger of a "domino effect" with others following suit in the face of competitive pressures, he said.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Wear | Christmas store ban moves closer
After looking at the pharmaceutical industry's second-quarter earnings, some investors might be tempted to see a miracle cure for a sector that has been plagued by competitive pressures and safety and marketing scandals.
Those companies who begin investing in the future today rather than playing it safe for tomorrow will be in a far better place to meet the competitive pressures of a strengthening global economy.
The downsizing, part of a restructuring at the 116-year-old chocolate maker, illustrates competitive pressures felt by Hershey as its rivals Kraft Foods ( KFT) and closely held Mars have gotten bigger through takeovers.
However, if Motorola could withstand these competitive pressures and maintain its market share at 2010 levels of around 2.4%, there could be an upside of around 25% to our price estimate for Motorola Mobility stock.
Given these cross currents and our belief that competitive pressures will only intensify as we move through calendar 2011, we believe that shares likely remain range-bound until investors regain confidence in the growth and margin trajectory at CSCO.
FORBES: Cisco: Some Analysts Abandon Ship After Disappointing Quarter
The year-over-year change in branded contract gross customer additions resulted in part from competitive pressures and the implementation of strengthened credit standards as part of T-Mobile USA's focus on improving the overall quality of its contract customer base.
ENGADGET: T-Mobile lost more customers in Q4, will launch LTE in 2013 with AWS spectrum from AT&T
With the BB10 OS launch now pushed to the first quarter of 2013, RIM will be subject to greater competitive pressures as the iPhone 5 has been launched and a slew of WP8 and Android smartphones will also be making their way out between now and then.
FORBES: RIM's Earnings Could Be Ugly With No BB10 And Sliding Market Share
应用推荐