At the high-end segment of the market, the wines are meant to age for years or even decades.
China Telecom is looking to tap into the high-end segment as it attempts to drive further adoption of its stand alone wireless service.
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Indeed, the growth in the higher-end segment is helping fuel the pawn business as a whole, according to Marketdata Enterprises, a Tampa, Fla.
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Some think this implies that Nokia will lose market share on the low-end segment and erode its handset sales though we have not seen data to support this.
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While price may not be as important in the high-end segment, trying to sell against established brands like Audi, Buick, Mercedes and BMW with a significant price disadvantage will be challenging.
The problem for all players in this competitive low-end segment is that Amazon is more motivated by the prospect of the Kindle Fire as an enticing storefront for its merchandise than by direct profits.
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They focus more on the high-end luxury segment but they do focus on active adults.
Microsoft currently operates only in the high end smartphone segment while the budget smartphone segment is dominated by Android and Symbian.
The risk here is that as Huawei and ZTE continue their assault on low-end smartphone market, the arrival of iPhone 4S will suck the oxygen out of the high-end smartphone segment, triggering order cancellations from Samsung, Nokia, LG, Sony Ericsson and HTC.
"I got a suit just for you, Steve, " Marcus teased at the end of his segment, clearly sensing that His Awkwardness was jealous of not only his cheesy winking abilities but the fact that he was decked out in head-to-toe leather.
Similarly, I always used to advocate shaking hands with your host at the end of an interview segment.
See Supplemental Segment Information at the end of these financial tables for more information.
Apple sells high end products mostly to the affluent segment of society.
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Hamada notes that adjusting for currency, Avnet expects top-line sequential growth of 4.2% for the electronics marketing segment, at the low end of the normal sequential improvement in the 4%-7% range.
My thought was to help that momentum, by backing and then announcing that backing right after the end of my Kick-a-thon segment to tie it all together.
The Corporate Market segment operates an ICT services and offering end-to-end solutions in infrastructure and network-related.
As of Sept. 24, the end of Apple's fiscal year, the company's retail segment had about 36, 000 full-time employees.
His view is that Apple and Samsung will continue to dominate the high end of the handset market, but he cautions that growth in that segment is likely to slow to the 10%-15% range, down from the 50%-100% range.
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However, Apple continues to face increasing competition in the mobile devices segment from both Google, which recently made a low-end tablet entry, as well as Microsoft, which is making a renewed push for Windows Phone as the third mobile ecosystem of choice this year.
New imports will continue to make up a large segment of the market, but will be concentrated at the top end and in niche markets.
And it really marks the end of the major assembly of at least the U.S. orbiting segment to -- as we transition into full utilization of this magnificent orbiting laboratory.
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It arises from light waves in the visible band of the electromagnetic spectrum, the segment with wavelengths of 400 billionths of a metre at the blue end to 700 billionths at the red.
Since the 2010 Office suite is not as close to the end of its life cycle as Windows 7, and we expect the revenues from this segment to continue to grow.
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At each segment, the robot extends four mechanical arms equipped with a rotating cleaning brush at the end.
In the international segment, the company looks to be on target to achieve 200 international stores by the end of 2012.
We expect the revenues from this segment to increase by greater than 50% this year and more than double by the end of our forecast period.
Our valuation for this segment is hinged on our expectation that Netflix will be able to gain 30 million international subscribers by the end of our forecast period.
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