One of the beneficiaries is San Diego-based ThermoLase, which operates the 16-store Spa Thira chain and licenses its laser equipment to doctors.
They manage a small chain of gyms across the country that carry their patented equipment, but they normally don't sell the machines to individuals.
Anchor customers often are significant value chain participants, such as large material suppliers, or original equipment manufacturers with a major position in a particular market.
In addition to selling its own recharging station, Nokia said the US's Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf chain and Virgin Atlantic's Heathrow airport club lounge would fit equipment allowing visitors to power up the Lumia handsets, offering it fresh opportunities to promote the feature.
" Interestingly enough, the system supposedly relies on "modified software" running on regular WiFi equipment, and wireless access points with the newfangled software can seemingly daisy-chain directional network traffic through "several carefully aligned steerable antennas in order to eventually reach a fiber link connected to the internet.
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Judged by their imports of electrical machinery and transport equipment, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan are most exposed to disruptions in this supply chain.
Dresser-Rand equipment, used at nearly every stage of the oil-and-gas supply chain, is well positioned to take advantage of the global investment increase in energy infrastructure.
Following the U.S. debt downgrade, we see more cyclical technology industries, such as semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, as more vulnerable, reflecting greater macroeconomic uncertainties and potential challenges associated with supply-chain financing.
Threats to the supply chain range from the installation of malicious code in either hardware or software to the installiation of counterfeit equipment and the disruption of the production of critical components.
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Sports equipment makers could boost margins by combining relationships with retailers and professional and amateur sports teams, and by merging supply chain management and sales and marketing forces.
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