"Our customers want the highest storage capacity with the ability to access their data easily and quickly, " said Fredrik Hamberger, vice president, consumer PC business, HP.
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"From our perspective, the overwhelming majority of customers want the highest performance so they can ride it as long as possible, " said David Graves, a spokesman at Dell in Austin, Texas.
Acquisition of new customers was the highest since 2009.
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But she soon figured out what Mr. Blake calls "a brilliant plan" to limit face-to-face visits to customers with the highest sales potential, and to hire a pharmacist to contact the rest.
Respected authoring houses and mixing facilities worldwide have recently upgraded to Dolby TrueHD with advanced 96k upsampling within the Dolby Media Producer Encoder v2 to provide customers with the highest-quality audio experience available on Blu-ray.
That starts with creating a consumer-credit culture in the first place, plus many of the things lenders take for granted in North America, like individual credit histories, and finely tuned risk-based pricing where the riskiest customers pay the highest interest rates, to cover expected losses.
Shanghai-based training service JETT trains employees of retailers in how to deal with customers who insist on smoking in stores, says Ed Dean, JETT's founder. (Explain that the store wants to provide customers with the highest-quality products, and that smoke can tend to tarnish them.) "Problems emerge in China that multinational businesses don't always foresee when they look for employees, " Mr. Dean says.
Still, even with those export sales, government wind subsidies cause Danish customers to pay the highest electricity rates in Europe.
And unlike the concierge sundeck - which is reserved for the ship's highest paying customers and lacks access to a private pool - Vibe offers teens a private sundeck, a plunge pool and two hot tubs.
This is usually achieved through the installation in homes of advanced energy meters that can show customers when power rates are highest.
The survey suggested that Lloyds TSB, with 30%, had the highest proportion of customers who had experienced a problem in the previous 12 months while First Direct had fewest, with 9%.
But for 30% of manufacturing customers, prices were among the highest in Europe.
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Both states have taken steps toward shutting down nuclear power plants that produce lots of cheap, low-carbon power to customers already paying some of the highest electricity bills in the country.
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"Kensington customers have told us they need the highest physical safeguard possible for laptops while still having easy access to their hardware, and we listened, " said Rob Humphrey, Director, Security Products Global Business at Kensington.
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In general, between 80% and 90% of positive referrals come from your highest-value, most loyal customers.
"If we are going to meet our commitment to deliver the highest quality of service to our customers it is vital we push ahead with our modernisation programme, " she said.
"Altera's FPGAs using Intel 14 nm technology will enable customers to design with the most advanced, highest-performing FPGAs in the industry, " said John Daane, president, CEO and chairman of Altera.
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In addition, during the fourth quarter we hit our highest level ever for total paid customers, we saw our largest number of new customers acquired, and we set a new record for total postage printed.
Banks are expected to raise their prime lending rates, which is what they charge their most creditworthy customers, to 8.25%, its highest level in five years.
As consumption of mobile data and video escalates in China, our small lightRadio Metro Radios will satisfy demand with the highest performance that China Mobile's customers' have come to expect.
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According to the GE-Arista partnership, GE, the largest maker of power-generation equipment, will join with Arista Power to sell systems that store electricity for commercial customers and release it when demand is at its highest, which would help reduce the cost of electricity.
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The more our customers understand that Makino has earned its reputation for the highest-quality machines, the easier my job becomes.
"It means we're going to provide the highest level of quality and value to our customers - and those are timeless fundamentals, " he said.
Notably, American Express, the card company regarded as wringing the highest transaction fees out of merchants and their customers, refused to settle with the DOJ.
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For example, among credit card offers for customers with excellent credit, the biggest difference in the highest and lowest interest rates surveyed is 10.75 percent, in the business rewards credit card category.
But some customers who are already paying some of the nation's highest utility bills are still concerned.
That my products were sold in Costco thus ensured customers and other potential partners that the products were of the highest standard.
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Smart metering is part of an increasingly popular trend in energy efficiency called "demand response" in which customers voluntarily cut back on their power consumption during times of highest electricity demand, like the hottest days of summer, when air conditioners are running at full blast.
Customers want strong regulation that delivers the lowest possible prices and the highest service standards.
We apologise to our customers and take this matter very seriously as food quality is our highest priority.
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