And domestic growth is becoming the important emerging-market story: hundreds of millions of people are earning enough to let them rapidly accumulate higher-value consumer goods, from cars to computers.
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Dell has limited strategic options in the consumer segment, especially the low-value products like notebooks.
Impressive growth in air freight is largely a result of growing demand for transportation for high-value and perishable consumer goods.
Research shows that the Hispanic consumer in particular is influenced by value-added impressions that target them specifically.
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China recently began to import some African-manufactured value-added goods, such as processed foods and household consumer goods.
Despite the fillip from the temporary reduction in value-added tax, consumer spending will fall sharply.
The recession snapped at retailers from two ends - both inhibiting consumer spending and sending the value of the properties shops inhabit crashing.
Since then, the recovery has been led by consumer-discretionary stocks, which have more than tripled in value.
The world isn't big enough for China to rise up the value-added chain without generating domestic consumer spending.
"We need to make sure that we strike that right balance between driving value to the consumer and the merchant on small-ticket" purchases, Mr. Sheedy said.
We recommend investors buy a consumer staples ETF over a financial ETF because the consumer staples sector allocates 73% of the value to attractive-or-better-rated stocks compared to 21% for the financials sector.
What if you are a mere consumer of energy--that is, neither your job nor the value of your home is particularly sensitive to the price of oil?
"Samsung's SL-Series of digital cameras deliver significant value to the consumer, and that's especially true with the new SL600 and SL50, " said Mr. SJ Park, CEO of Samsung Digital Imaging Company.
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The consumer staples sector has only 3% of its value invested in dangerous-or-worse-rated stocks and 73% of its value invested in attractive-or-better-rated stocks.
Neither the consumer nor the business owner are getting the full value of the check-in because the tips and recommendations are scattered over numerous identities.
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The consumer-loan uptick is most pronounced in the auto sector, where the dollar value of loans originated last year topped the 2009 total, Equifax estimates.
In the typical production supply chain for consumer products, of which apparel production is a good example, the higher-value, pre-manufacturing activities like designing, engineering, and branding, and post-manufacturing activities like marketing, warehousing, transporting, and retailing happen in the United States, while the mostly lower-end manufacturing and assembly activities take place abroad.
Also there is some consumer resistance as well: Older, and lower-income consumers in particular continue to value the hand-holding traditional dealerships provide and as a group have resisted "no-haggle" pricing.
Basically, the old Liberty was very capable off-road, but it did not keep up with consumer demands, which now value refined road manners, good fuel economy and lots of interior space more than the ability to hop boulders and ford streams.
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With school performance measures, common core standards and value-added learning now being accepted into the community mainstream, perhaps new consumer choices for pupils, parents and taxpayers will expand.
The loss economists loath from monopolies results from supra-competitive pricing, which transfers some of the economic value of a product from the consumer to the producer.
To re-value the indicators of use of GDP at constant prices, relevant price indices (consumer price index, capital investments price index, etc.) and physical indicators were applied.
Brayman and his team, all of whom previously worked at Sentinel, focus exclusively on five sectors--industrials, consumer, health care, technology and financial--where they have special competence and feel they can add value.
The Vertu Ti (pronounced "tee-eye") emphasizes the value of "durable" over "disposable" materials that a consumer might expect from the luxury category, added Oosting.
With an understanding based only on correlation and not causality, we challenge mix modelers to rationally explain where their long-term factor comes from (whatever value it is) and by what mechanism or how it becomes actual, longer-term consumer purchases.
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