Yet this also presents opportunities to develop new products to help ensure productivity and safety.
Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products.
Equity, on the other hand, represents risk capital that can be used to innovate and develop new products and technologies.
The Batistas gave O'Callaghan free range to develop new products and packaging and to train employees on food safety and different regulations.
Coke obviously knows how to develop new products and market them effectively.
Then, in 2003, Company A decided to diversify beyond its original business and develop new products using the new, game changing technology.
To keep its edge, Carrier Access needed to develop new products fast.
The goal of such partnerships will be to team up to develop new products and services that can improve healthcare technology and delivery.
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Hiring the disabled helps companies develop new products and services, expanding their customer base, which is increasingly filled with older people starting to encounter disability.
Banks constantly have to develop new products to keep them happy.
The weak old regime long deterred foreign firms from setting up in India to use the country's ample supply of educated workers to develop new products.
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If Doximity is to scale, it may need to pick a bigger target market or develop new products for which its doctor-members are willing to pay plenty.
CenterPoint's network was engineered by ibm and runs on open-source software, meaning anybody can access the underlying code to develop new products to ride on the communications system CenterPoint is building.
There was little incentive for them to work closely with other Schneider divisions on marketing or to develop new products designed to capitalize on the trend toward centrally controlled and monitored networks.
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And it's very difficult for, I think, scientists and engineers who are trying to develop new products to work in this environment where the patents and their innovation may not be so respected.
Rather than diaper businesses, Covidien buys higher-margin medical-device makers in areas like vascular surgery and brain monitoring, where it can develop new products that will add to revenues in two to three years.
New growth: Experience of the recession reminds leaders that growth is not a certain prospect and that they need to seek out new markets for existing offerings and develop new products and services.
This can be done within organizations or with customers, partners and communities to develop new products, teach and adapt business transformation initiatives, or even partnerships to support projects in regional, environmental and civic responsibility.
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That nice little chunk of pocket change will allow Facebook to poach more Google engineers, develop new products and maybe even do an acquisition or two, sans the headaches of beating quarterly earnings estimates.
"We plan to continue to increase and accelerate capital spending to develop new products in new and existing segments... grow our manufacturing footprint in China and explore manufacturing opportunities in other markets, " it said.
One of the reasons for its bottom-line woes is the fact that the company has been investing in trying to develop new products, even though too few of those have made it out of the gate as yet.
What Schmid hoped the Postal Service would do was leverage the fact that it delivered mail every day to every home to develop new products that could have been the paper version of highly targeted e-mails offering you a discount at your favorite store on your favorite product.
But some food companies are using cell lines that were originally derived from human fetuses in order to develop new food products.
Even internationally, where health issues are not as prevalent, a key driver of growth has been McDonald's ability to develop new food products that cater to the current and changing lifestyles of a specific region.
"We believe that working closely with Nanosys will help us to develop exciting new products for our customers that will address needs in the world's largest markets across a number of technologies, " said Seungho Ahn, Senior Vice President of the Intellectual Property Center, Samsung Electronics.
The Colorado Association for Manufacturing and Technology (CAMT) is at the core of this exciting initiative, with the Departments of Energy and Commerce joining along with NASA. Through this collaboration, private sector partners are financing the development of an Aerospace and Clean Energy Park that will host new businesses interested in using NASA technologies and expertise to develop new commercial products and services.
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In essence, companies must constantly develop new strategies and products to remain profitable while maintaining a strong market position.
Comcast Cable Chief Executive Neil Smit said at a conference last month that his company will work with Verizon Wireless to develop and integrate new products, giving Comcast "a very important strategic competitive advantage, " according to a transcript.
Sony and Microsoft said they would co-operate to develop new consumer-electronics products.
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