The market priority for Huawei's Consumer Business Group is China, followed by Europe and Japan.
Urban Outfitters has a strong direct-to-consumer business, which is quite valuable for the retailer.
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Satellites have become, in effect, a consumer business, with all the risks that entails.
Further, Nike has focused efforts on attempting to expand global outreach by using a direct-to-consumer business model.
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This represents a take rate 13.5x larger take rate than what Taobao gets on the consumer-to-consumer business.
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Ms. Whitman ran a large consumer business, and her massive gubernatorial campaign gave her exposure to government issues.
Among other factors, the company saw weak demand from the government sector, and a drop in its consumer business.
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At company headquarters in Shenzhen in southern China, I talked to Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's Consumer Business Group.
So is BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, because its consumer business will buoy its corporate sales and vice versa.
Teen apparel retailer Aeropostale is looking to revamp its m-commerce (e-commerce through mobile) channel to strengthen its direct-to-consumer business.
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"The Japanese have proven themselves masters of the consumer business, " says Bertrand Bidaud, head of telecoms research at Gartner Group.
"We're redefining what cost-conscious Kenyans can expect from a smartphone, " said Peter Arina, general manager, Safaricom' s Consumer Business Unit.
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Over the past three quarters, Urban Outfitters direct-to-consumer business has grown substantially, registering a 36% growth in the recent quarter.
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So in 2003, he jumped from an in-your-face consumer business to the obscure world of industrial gases, a purely business-to-business activity.
For their consumer business they use very focused and targeted marketing strategies.
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Cisco found out what many have learned: the consumer business is hard, retail is hard, and video is hard.
Discounting the brief period after World War II when underutilized machine shops turned out bedroom furniture, this is Boeing's first consumer business.
Triggered by a ten-times increase in its retail presence throughout the U.S.A, Lenovo saw significant sales gains in its consumer business there.
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Given the uncertain economic environment, competitive dynamics and soft Consumer business, Dell expects third-quarter revenue to be down 2-5 percent from second-quarter levels.
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Cisco Systems (CSCO) this morning announced a multi-part plan to revamp its consumer business, including shutting down the Flip video camera business.
However, what few American investors are aware of is that Taobao is really using its popular consumer-to-consumer service to slingshot its business-to-consumer business.
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Additionally, our consumer business was soft due to poorer global economic conditions including high unemployment, high oil prices and the resulting low consumer confidence.
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Huawei's Consumer business group recorded robust sales revenue of CNY 48.4 billion, with sales continuing to grow in developed markets including Europe and Japan.
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Like its competitor Urbanfetch , which ditched its consumer business in October to essentially become a glorified messenger service, Kozmo must reinvent itself or die.
Although, we believe that the rapid growth in the direct-to-consumer business will help Aeropostale, it may still not be enough to drive its overall growth.
The 4, 000 net reduction in jobs in the consumer business this year will be achieved through attrition, executives said during the bank's annual investor day.
Yang had originally wanted a separate consumer business division to lead the charge, according to Grabe, but Amelio argued that that might undermine the geographic heads.
"The likes of Tesco, Carrefour and Metro would see themselves as chasing hard in the pack behind Wal-Mart, " said Richard Lloyd-Owen, Deloitte's head of consumer business.
Consumer business is one of Huawei's three business groups offering a range of products that include mobile phones, mobile broadband devices, home devices, clouds, and consumer chipsets.
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We are hiring into our operations organization, where they are managing teams in our fulfillment centers, our consumer business, or retail, where they're learning vendor and inventory management.
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