Caplan still talks about feeling nauseated in 2004 when an E-Trade customer participating in a focus group insisted that the company had never added "Financial" to its name.
Mr Gaskell said the firm's biggest customer the Delphi Corporation - which is part of the General Motors Group in the US - filed for bankruptcy in October.
True, the original customer base of Dollar General was the price-conscious low income group, but it has since expanded its appeal to the middle-class families with its more varied assortment of products readily available at its stores.
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Last year, the Glasgow-based group launched a new website aimed at boosting customer access to its product range.
Chrysler Group is interested in expanding the customer base for our award-winning Jeep vehicles, which can only be done by establishing local production.
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His original suit claimed TAP had paid doctors 2% kickbacks, but only one customer got the fees and they were legit: Tri-State Urology, a buying group, had a legal safe harbor to receive the fees.
Supermarket group Morrisons has reported a rise in half-year profits as record customer numbers helped to drive improved sales.
These units were responsible for designing and building their wares--but most marketing and selling were run by a separate outfit: the Customer Solutions Group.
Angel said it was nearing the end of negotiations with a "sizeable customer" on a long-term supply contract for materials supplied directly from ABL. The group expects other contracts to follow.
Mini-experiments do not need to be expensive, they just need to involve the target customer group and test assumptions you have about your business model.
The number of new households is no longer close to the 100, 000-plus pay-TV subscribers it used to sign up per quarter, but the group said that average customer spend had increased as cable subscribers added new services.
One of his current favorites is Group 1 Software (nasdaq: GSOF - news - people ), a customer-management software firm that's gained 50% since mid-February.
"The acquisition of Meraki enables Cisco to make simple, secure, cloud managed networks available to our global customer base of mid-sized businesses and enterprises, " Rob Soderbery, senior vice president, Cisco Enterprise Networking Group said in a statement.
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