Its consumer electronics loss in the year to March, of Y84bn, was 60 per cent smaller than it was a year earlier.
The debt crises reduced availability of business and consumer credit, created a loss of consumer confidence, and led to a significant reduced consumer spending.
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The loss of power is compounded by a loss of consumer confidence, both at home and abroad.
If there is some loss of consumer choice, the cost may be outweighed by efficiencies from bundling.
The carmaker has also suffered a severe loss of consumer trust.
While it is inevitable that technology should spread and manufacturing move to less expensive regions closer to developing consumer bases, the loss of technical opportunities and experience in the US will likely reduce our own ability to drive innovation and develop rewarding careers for the future.
There is every reason to believe that the current state of the economy has, in fact, been substantially contributed to by a net trade imbalance and the reliance on consumer debt to offset the loss of manufacturing.
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With sales incentives offering interest rates all the way down to zero, the car companies eventually have to funnel money into their credit subsidiaries to balance the books, so loss-making consumer-goods makers are lending money to customers to buy their wares.
Samsung promised to appeal against the decision describing it as "a loss for the American consumer".
It also concluded that the merger would harm consumer choice, with the possible loss of existing Abbey National products.
Some consumer advocates worry that the weight loss comes with a price.
His method, simply put, was to use the words of insurance companies against them, with the hope of illustrating two realities: the reality of business marketing, where a pro-consumer position is desirable, and the reality of business economics, where a pro-consumer position might create a serious loss.
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Consequently, the loss has been a major consumer of capital expansion, forcing the company to use newly acquired capital to expand production facilities.
Consumer demand for a new weight-loss drug is enormous.
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If share and home prices stabilise, that will mitigate the astonishing loss of wealth that is depressing consumer spending.
The company blames its expected loss this year on the slump in consumer appliances and a worldwide glut of memory chips.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Dewhirst blamed the move on a loss of profits due to "continued consumer pressure on prices".
Yet if the plan is indeed to compensate for the loss of exports by hoodwinking the Italian consumer into spending more, it is a risky one, for both Italy's government and for the country.
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These are that eating a diet which is low in fat and high in starch reduces the risk to the consumer of developing heart disease and cancer, and also promotes weight loss.
It is based on recent research into the psychology of flourishing (so called positive psychology), consumer behavior research, experiences and research about the diet industry and weight loss, my 25 years clinical experience as a psychologist and psychoanalyst, and well over a half-century of experience eating.
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Although many consumer game devices eventually turn a profit, they often hit the market as a loss leader, herding gamers into a closed ecosystem and securing a revenue stream for the manufacturer -- every Nintendo, Xbox or PlayStation game made funnels a small licensing fee to the owner of the platform.
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But the online consumer reviews site lost 8 cents a share in the quarter, wider than the Street consensus estimated loss of 4 cents a share.
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Etymotic's hearing protection products were honored with a Design and Engineering Innovations Award in the Health and Wellness category at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show and the prestigious 2010 Safe-in-Sound Award for decades of innovation in hearing loss prevention from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National Hearing Conservation Association.
Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group -- part of the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen -- isn't hopeful about the development of an effective and safe weight-loss drug.
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