Today, it is facing competition from mass culture and a lack of interest amongst the young.
Now those brands are facing competition, and there's not much in the pipeline that might replace them.
Still, Nike has continued facing competition from well-established international brands, like Adidas, and domestic movers, primarily Li-Ning.
But the twice-a-day Byetta is already facing competition from Victoza, a once-a-day injection from insulin giant Novo Nordisk.
His name-your-price Internet venture, facing competition from other airline ticket discounters, has struggled.
Netflix is further facing competition from Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple Computer (NASDAQ: AAPL), and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).
The chip maker has lost market share in recent months and is facing competition from new rivals, such as Rise (see chart).
Like some peers, it faces a patent cliff with very profitable drugs facing competition from generics, but Lilly spends aggressively to develop replacements.
The local telephone monopoly will also be facing competition before long.
But it is now facing competition from places such as Singapore.
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Despite its size, The Knot is now facing competition from smaller blogs and websites, such as online scrapbook Pinterest, as couples search for unique wedding ideas.
Only one company in his industry had a CEO being savaged by Carl Icahn in a proxy battle, while its top-selling drugs were facing competition and safety controversies.
Levin says Wall Street is also wary of fiber-optic networks because they may wind up facing competition from emerging wireless technologies such as WIMAX, a wireless technology that promises to deliver broadband over great distances.
And, with Holloway facing competition for the Leicester job from caretaker boss Rob Kelly and Luton's Mike Newell, the west London club have suspended him on full pay along with coaches Tim Breacker and Gary Penrice.
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In addition to competition from established players like Nokia, Apple, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, Motorola is facing competition from newer Chinese players like ZTE and Huawei in the lower priced handset market, which is taking share in the lower priced handset market.
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The dominant tobacco companies, especially Philip Morris (now Altria) got a virtual cartel that allowed them to immediately raise cigarette prices without facing competition from smaller companies, since the AGs wrote into the pact clauses that required new companies to pay into the settlement even though they had nothing to do with the alleged behavior behind the lawsuits.
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Facing competition from BMW, Audi and Mercedes in the premium small-car market, Saab Chief Executive Peter Augustsson needed a new model and turned to another GM partner, Fuji Heavy Industries, maker of Subaru four-wheel-drive cars. (GMowns a 20% stake in Fuji.) After months of discussions, nudged along by Lutz, the collaboration resulted in the Saab 9-2X, a sporty, high-performance wagon based on the underpinnings of Subaru's Impreza compact and its high-performance cousin, the WRX.
And existing drugs, big sellers like Merck's Fosamax and Pfizer's Lipitor, are facing generic competition.
At the same time, Apple is facing increased competition from other smartphone makers in those markets.
With both companies facing generic competition on major drugs, neither can afford to lose.
Roche, for its part, is facing generic competition on Accutane, one of its best-selling acne drugs.
Facebook, which declined to comment, is facing increased competition from Google in the social sphere.
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The industry is also facing stiff competition from emerging Asian regions like Macau and Singapore.
Despite its considerable size, it is interesting to note that Cebit is facing more competition.
Woolworths went into administration late in 2008 after facing increased competition from supermarkets and online retailers.
De Beers has rethought how it trades diamonds, and is facing stronger competition from rivals.
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LG, one of South Korea's biggest groups, is facing increased competition from rivals like Samsung.
And, in its lower-end Intel-based server market, Compaq is facing stiffer competition, not least from Dell.
The comedy, starring Jack Black and Michael Cera as cavemen, is facing strong competition from Warner Bros.
A. is now facing stiff competition overseas in the form of cheaper and shorter business school degrees.
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