The problem here is that when the product is ready to launch, the MSRP may end up being the wrong price because it was developed based on cost instead of what the end consumer will pay.
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Hongkong Bank aims to use that strategy in its drive for the high-end consumer market.
It has its own cost structure, tax implications and benefits to the end consumer.
As a vendor of wildly popular, high-end consumer gadgets, Apple would seem to be particularly vulnerable.
Most goods brought into the U.S. from China are low-end consumer goods, such as textile products.
X3 sensor consists of 3.5m pixels (3.5 megapixels) and will appear in a high-end consumer camera.
However, some industries are not facing as much depression in sales compared to high-end consumer discretionary outlets.
There are many high-end consumer stores here and people (especially youths dress very fashionably and drive expensive cars).
Gathering feedback from your end-consumer and incorporating it into a product or service in real-time can be tricky business.
They come from shared consciousness, but they are also perpetuated by each brand to the end consumer in one way or another.
We expect online travel agencies to pass along the increased tax burden to the end consumer if Internet state sales taxes are implemented.
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All the while Nuforce has positioned itself to capitalize on this vision, with products that are geared toward a new generation of high-end audio consumer.
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We see it that competition is really healthy for the end-consumer.
"We believe that our new pricing structure should allow the rental dealer to continue to offer a competitive price to the end consumer, " said the spokesman.
First, unlike traditional pawn brokers, online pawn shops cater to a higher end consumer who is looking for larger loans than those given by traditional pawn shops.
Sadove, chairman and chief executive officer of Saks Incorporated, who spoke at a Forbes breakfast a few weeks ago, is where the high-end luxury consumer is today.
The second prong involved trying to produce high-end consumer electronics.
That Germany should try to wind back the clock and start producing the low-end consumer goods that for years now it has imported from China or other cheaper centres of production?
UE, in particular, has pitched itself as a high-end consumer brand thanks to a tie-up with Logitech, and the UE 900 earphones are amongst the nicest it offers short of any custom options.
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Based on the definition of the meme above and my understanding of paradox, this means that I use multiple images and messages to deliver some ambiguity to the end consumer, thus bringing my hypothesis full circle.
While food businesses on the production end have benefited from the high prices, companies near the consumer end have suffered from rising raw material costs.
Known as NuForce, the firm is recognizable amongst audiophiles both for its high-end gear and consumer lineup that often shames overpriced competitors.
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For the person on the other end, the consumer, it seems to represent a way to obtain credit, to obtain credit history so that eventually one might even be able to buy a house.
Originally developed by Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England, the technology has been licensed to Oxford-based Vicon, which will produce a version for Alzheimer's and dementia researchers by the year's end and a consumer version in 2010.
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