With the proposed Motorola acquisition, Google risks straining its relationships with other smartphone makers who rely on Android, wrote Charles Golvin, a Forrester Research consumer product analyst, in an online report.
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Van Baker, consumer electronics analyst for research firm Gartner Inc.
"We believe Apple is disproportionately exposed to a potential slowdown in U.S. consumer spending, " Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi wrote in a note to investors Friday.
James Targett, an analyst at Consumer Equity Research, said it was not clear what difference the extra cash would make.
James Targett, an analyst at Consumer Equity Research, questioned Hershey's ability to buy Cadbury outright, given the relative size of the two companies.
D. is a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research serving Consumer Product Strategy professionals.
James McQuivey is a Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research serving Consumer Product Strategy professionals.
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Opus Research analyst Greg Sterling said that consumer apps in the space have struggled to build audiences that are big enough to interest advertisers.
Justin Wilson, senior research analyst at the Center for Consumer Freedom.
Sarah Rotman Epps is a senior analyst at Forrester Research, serving consumer product strategy professionals.
Thomas Husson is a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, serving Consumer Product Strategy professionals.
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Tony Costa is a senior analyst at Forrester Research, serving consumer product strategy professoinals.
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Thomas Husson is a VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, serving Consumer Product Strategy professionals.
James Staten is a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, serving consumer product strategy professionals.
Consumer staple analyst Wendy Nicholson at Citi did some research and noticed that for the ten years leading up to 2000 beverage stocks had outperformed the broader market in Q4, while in the last ten years that pattern has reversed, and beverage stocks underperformed the market for seven of the ten.
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Nigel Hollis, a former consumer goods marketer who is now chief global analyst at research agency Millward Brown, says nonconscious indentification may work well for simple, everyday purchases such as a box of Twinings tea, but bigger, more expensive purchases, such as a new car, are likely to involve much more complex decision making.
Analyst Abhey Lamba writes in a research note that consumer PC demand is now likely to be up just 1% this year, down from a previous forecast for 6% growth.
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"The endgame is a greater share of the consumer's wallet, " says Standard and Poor's Equity Research analyst Todd Rosenbluth.
Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research, a research and advisory firm focusing on consumer technology adoption.
"The influx of data services, coupled with the traditional flexibility and value of no contract plans, has considerably increased consumer interest in the no annual contract wireless market" said John Weber, Associate Research Analyst at IDC.
"Regardless of how advanced a technology is, if there is no merchant adoption, then there will be no consumer adoption and vice versa, " Sanjay Sakhrani, an analyst with KBW, wrote in a research note this month.
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