As a result, the amount of sea transport involved in manufacturing a given product rose.
However, at current, its something of a headache because a refinery can only output so much of a given product at a time.
The lack of that guaranteed repeat business is a worry for longer-term bonds, which can have maturities ranging far beyond a given product cycle.
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Is the celebrity endorser credible for a given product or category?
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IBM, he adds, may show more EPS upside in the December 2012 and March and June 2013 quarters than it will in September given product transitions.
Branding the art of conditioning an audience to associate a given product, person or idea with a desired cognitive or emotional response can be an important part of developing messages.
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The value of the number of engaged individuals is ultimately measured in how their message about a given product, service or topic of interest is amplified to friends, families and other social media outlets.
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It asked 3, 500 sports fans whether they found a brand distinctive, whether they felt loyal toward it and, most important, what percentage of their recent purchases in a given product category came from that brand.
If only a few firms compete in a given product market, if the market is difficult to enter and if all leading firms adopt selective distribution, then competition between brands will not keep prices down and consumers will suffer.
Sharing what trip afar or film project is next, attendees were given product demonstrations, gratis samples (whether a taste of Brugal Rum or Goose Island beer) and treated as if on the red carpet at the Kodak Theater, Hollywood, instead of just off sandy Long Beach and now in Greenwich Village, NYC.
In one case, the more common of the two, marketers are given a product and told to go sell it.
Once tokenized and hidden, any given card product is far more vulnerable to being displaced, as the issuers have already learned from PayPal.
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Sure, other companies had given away product before to win customers, but the convention was to cast as wide a net as possible rather than to focus on the frequency of exposure to the product.
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Given the likely product lineup, which also could include an updated iTunes and other software, the event could run up to a couple of hours.
But if the court sides with Costco, it will undermine the whole concept of price discrimination, in which companies determine the best price for a product given what a local market is willing to pay.
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Given that the product is new, NRG is installing a handful of the pergolas in some states, including California, Texas and New York, to see how well they perform and to learn about local regulations for installing them, Doyle said.
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However, the Accenture research also revealed a significant opportunity for the industry to cut costs and reduce the level of product returns, given that only 5 percent of returns are related to actual product defects.
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Given the downsides of product and service proliferation, less choice can be a competitive advantage.
Or have early considerations been given to make the product conducive to remanufacturing or recycling after its end of life?
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Now, there are reasons to be optimistic on the new product front given the sticky ecosystems that Apple has in place.
Rather than charge users to buy software, publishers opted for a "freemium" model, in which the basic product was given away but premium add-on services or features involved payment.
To install on the Windows 8 PC, I used a product key given to me by Microsoft for pre-release testing, otherwise you would have to go to Office.com to buy a subscription and get a product key. (A free 30-day trial is available.) The Windows 8 PC install took about 20 minutes, and a helpful introduction walked me through key points of Office 365.
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For the MP3 product, we understood that we had to control every aspect of design, development and manufacture given that this would be a product used mainly in remote areas for education.
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Given their attachment to the product, it only makes sense to use Mark Zuckerberg and the employees of Facebook as the targets for the new tool.
But he says you can always accept lower margin at any product at any given time for a strategic reason, but at the background we always know that this halo effect plays.
How did eBay, which famously hosts 50, 000 categories of merchandise and 230 million product listings on any given day, rev up its site?
Furthermore, once customers became aware of these problems or no longer wanted to pay for the product, they were given the runaround or further misled as a means of keeping them enrolled.
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He said that free current accounts provided a barrier to entry into the UK retail banking sector because this core product "is usually given away for free", prompting banks to try to make profits by pushing other products.
"This product launch is extremely important given its connection with our commitment to live music, " said Paul Jacobs, CEO of Klipsch.
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Given that this is an entirely new product from the company, we thought we'd stack it up against the third and fourth generation iPads -- the latter coming out just seven months after we threw down cash on the former.
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