The company said although its core cider brands saw volume declines, other parts of the business performed well.

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First dual core tablet to ship in volume.

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For example, the company is shipping volume production of 22nm Core products this year.

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We earned their business and achieved what we set out to achieve: unit volume growth in our core crops, a successful implementation of our agricultural productivity strategy and sustained cost-discipline across our operations.

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But long term investors need to re-allocate out of the low yielding, low growth core markets and start buying the securities of high volume major names abroad.

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Core operating profit, which reflected a jump in top-line revenue and volume synergies from the bottler acquisitions, was 74 cents per share.

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Copenhagen saw volume growth over the quarter with recent product introductions and strength of its core natural business.

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Also driving the mergers: the need to boost listings, a core source of revenue for the exchanges as they battle to preserve their share of trading volume against competition from new market entrants like Kansas City-based BATS Trading, which siphons about 8% of Nasdaq's daily volume and 5% of NYSE volume.

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In order to compete with the kingpin of that space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud, Google has bolstered its platform with new features, including shared-core instances for low-intensity chores, advanced routing, large persistent disks up to 10TB in volume size and sub-hour billing to keep costs down.

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