On the flip side, among the biggest losers were the utilities and consumer goods industries, which led the pack in 2011.
In the components industry, as in many other industrial and consumer goods industries in China, there are hundreds, even thousands, of individual customers and competitors, which include state-owned companies, private companies and foreign invested enterprises.
In consumer-goods industries it is common for a large number of differentiated products to be produced by a small number of firms.
Pure Power is aiming to be the first company to convert raw wood products into inputs for the chemical, consumer goods and food industries using a scalable model.
This has also meant the arrival on the world scene of multinational firms from emerging countries in sectors such as automobile manufacturing, consumer goods and high-tech industries like aircraft manufacturing.
In its wake foreign firms piled into industries such as consumer goods and carmaking, drawn by a big pool of labour and customers.
With increased gas pump prices, extra effects included diminished margins for industries - from transportation to consumer goods.
Of the few mentions of industries, the most notable is the rapid adoption of iPad devices with sales forces, most prevalent in legal, financial services, consumer goods, life sciences and high-tech industries.
Even so, as with all sorts of other industries, from carmaking to consumer goods, Chinese consumers are splashing so much money about that it is too big an opportunity for Western firms to ignore.
Confusion about how fast China is growing can hamper foreign and private companies in industries from construction to chemicals to consumer goods as they make plans for business and investment.
It's now at 22%, and analysts say it's well positioned to keep growing as it branches beyond the aerospace and auto industries to markets like consumer electronics, packaged goods and shipbuilding.
Pioneered by Alfred Kahn, George Stigler and William Baumol, it has sought to understand the nature of innovation, technological advance, consumer welfare, and competition in industries with just a few providers of goods and services.
And they will do quite well for at least another decade or two, living off mainstream industries such as autos, consumer electronics, semiconductors and other capital goods as they make a transition to a more investor and consumer-friendly society.
After establishing its expertise as a global provider of logistics services involving vehicle shipments, the company has reached into other industries: steel, machinery, heavy chemicals, energy, construction and consumer goods.
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