In the consumer area are such attractions as Reckitt Benckiser and Wella.
Another couple of companies that I want to mention are in the consumer discretionary area.
Another one in the consumer staple area would be General Mills, which has a yield of 3%.
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In the euro area consumer-price inflation was revised up to 2.3% in October, well above the 2% ceiling set by the European Central Bank.
And I actually, I know there's a lot of controversy about the consumer agency, but my hope is that one new area where the new consumer bureau and the new head of the consumer bureau will look will be in simplification of consumer rules for financial products.
Analysts have said GE Capital's investment has improved the Thai bank's operations, especially in the area of consumer loans.
Commerce is well known in the New York area for consumer-friendly services like weekend banking hours and coin-sorting machines.
The industry's financial "advice" is one area that the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, if it's ever established, should examine very closely.
Terry Sullivan, an associate editor at Consumer Reports, says another area shoppers could look for savings is in older camera models.
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Inflation remained subdued: the euro area's consumer-price index rose by 2.1% in the year to November, down from 2.4% in the year to October.
One way is to become conversant in the subject matter of data science consumers, perhaps even obtaining basic certification in the subject matter area of the consumer.
Consumer health is a popular area for startups, with everything from devices such as the Fitbit and Jawbone Up to apps such as Runkeeper that help people keep track of their exercise routines.
So if these long-term trends continue, women, who are already the majority of car buyers, will grow in consumer influence in every major area: from health care to home buying, from technology to investment planning.
Based on consumer neuroscience, a growing area for marketers looking to better understand consumers in more depth and with greater detail and precision, we know that moms and women in general use more areas of their brains to process information than men do, giving them enhanced multi-tasking, especially when it comes to shopping activities.
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After consumer electronics, the next biggest area of growth may be gift cards.
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Consumer privacy is definitely an important issue area for an attorney general these days.
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Consumer-price inflation in the euro area fell from 1.6% to 1.1% in January, based on a preliminary estimate.
This new focus was something that we saw as a compelling area in the ecoystem of consumer and IT or consumerization of IT.
The PC area, especially on the consumer side, has been a weak spot as tablets and more powerful smartphones have likely been resulting in reduced demand.
Despite higher consumer prices in America and the euro area, wage growth has remained subdued and real wages have fallen, which has prevented inflation from becoming entrenched.
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On October 17th Eurostat, the European Union's statistical office, announced that consumer-price inflation in the Euro area had risen to a six-year high of 2.8% in the year to September.
Seasonally you would expect a drop in sales after Christmas, so I doubt this is not a major sign of any issues with consumer demand, but it is an area I would watch very carefully during Q2.
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Because the toy retailer is a tenant at the Yorktown mall, it was able to provide KKR with insight into the area's household income and consumer-purchasing habits, he said.
But the Airbnb investment would be a large bet on the consumer Internet space, though in a very different area from Facebook or PayPal.
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In the UK, Nokia in partnership with network provider O2 and broadcast firm Arqiva, has been monitoring 400 triallists in the Oxford area since October, both in terms of consumer behaviour and how the technology performs.
"This is a complicated area and we will discuss with the industry, consumer groups and the regulator in order to work through the detail, " Mr Hayes said.
There's at least one area where Sony has kept its finger on the consumer's pulse, and it's most apparent when you tally up the Ion's dearth of truly offensive bloatware.
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From a consumer standpoint, we definitely have reached a tipping point in the area of vehicle navigation.
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And, given the risk that Denmark might in future give its currency a freer float, its interest rates are a percentage point higher than those for the euro, even though Danish consumer-price inflation has recently been lower than that in the euro area.
Spain accounts for one-eighth of euro-area GDP but until recently was generating a much larger share of consumer spending and new jobs.
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