Neither of those chains even made the top 10 in a recent poll of more than 7, 000 burger lovers by customer-research firm Market Force Information.
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When I joined McGladrey as an assurance associate 34 years ago, it was a middle market firm that served middle market clients.
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Even if gold prices meander, the long-term outlook for the metal remains firm, market watchers said.
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Created financial information services firm Innovative Market Systems to sell financial data, analytic tools to Wall Street.
"These types of events are growing more important, " says Matt Fabian, managing director of research firm Municipal Market Advisors.
The firm lost market share in Russia - where it is the biggest beer maker - due to tough competition.
For example, I could analyze how travel expense for my market research firm compares to other market research firms of similar employee size.
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On July 23rd the firm introduced Market Vectors Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond ETF ( EMLC), a fund whose name describes exactly what it does.
Danone says it believed things were going smoothly until 18 months ago, when it discovered Wahaha had started a parallel firm to market similar products.
As for the credit-rating concerns, research firm Municipal Market Advisors said in a recent report that Detroit's "risk of downgrade" has "increased" in part because of the sharp demographic decline.
We also factored in the number of full covers a celebrity individually graced as well as his or her appeal, a measure provided by Los Angeles-based market research firm E-Poll Market Research.
Accenture shares are trading modestly lower Monday morning after Bernstein Research analyst Rod Bourgeois cut his rating on the IT consulting firm to Market Perform from Outperform in what it basically a pure valuation call.
But shorting a market leading firm as it is driving a huge new market is a very gutsy call.
No one predicts the imminent demise of the PC, but some analysts are expecting growth to gradually taper off in places like the U.S. According to market research firm IDC, the U.S. market for packaged software will barely eke out double-digit annual gains over the next five years.
For years, this is what happened if you wanted to buy or sell a Nasdaq stock: Your buy order went to a market making firm, which charged you the offer side of the market, pocketing the difference between that price and the lower bid.
Power, a market-research firm, forecasts that the western European market will shrink by 7.9% this year, compared with a 16% drop in America.
The firm's market share in search is only 8.5% in America, compared with Google's share of more than 60%.
It envisions an "open-access" system where all information is free and the firm makes a market only where it wants.
The company recently became the most valuable US firm after its market capitalisation overtook that of oil company Exxon Mobil.
Type in a ticker symbol at riskgrades.com and you'll soon see grades for a firm's market, credit, governance and accounting risk.
"It is an absolute nightmare, " said Shaun Rein, whose consulting firm, China Market Research Group, employs about 20 analysts in the country.
Dr. Patrick Rishe is the Director of Sportsimpacts, a sports consulting firm specializing in market research analyses for professional and amateur sports entities.
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That system permits any company, no matter how small or large, to aspire to become the dominant firm in its market, driving competitors out.
In other words, when the government facilitates the entry of a new firm into the market, that is itself government intervention into the marketplace.
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The auto industry selling rate now holds over 14 million in a firm used car market, low cost consumer financing and the aging car population.
The firm put the market's 2010 value at 1.5 trillion yuan.
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Metals and plastics are sorted from the general waste and sold on, but the firm said the market for this type of material had "dropped substantially".
Dr. Patrick Rishe is the Director of Sportsimpacts, a sports consulting firm specializing in market research and economic impact studies of pro and college sporting events.
Middle-market firm Oclaro was formed by a merger between competitors, and has recently merged again with Opnext, looking for a better balance between supply and demand.
Rewards linked to a company's share price should probably be triggered only if the firm outperforms the market as a whole, or an industry peer group.
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