Hongkong Bank aims to use that strategy in its drive for the high-end consumer market.
As a vendor of wildly popular, high-end consumer gadgets, Apple would seem to be particularly vulnerable.
X3 sensor consists of 3.5m pixels (3.5 megapixels) and will appear in a high-end consumer camera.
However, some industries are not facing as much depression in sales compared to high-end consumer discretionary outlets.
There are many high-end consumer stores here and people (especially youths dress very fashionably and drive expensive cars).
The second prong involved trying to produce high-end consumer electronics.
UE, in particular, has pitched itself as a high-end consumer brand thanks to a tie-up with Logitech, and the UE 900 earphones are amongst the nicest it offers short of any custom options.
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All the while Nuforce has positioned itself to capitalize on this vision, with products that are geared toward a new generation of high-end audio consumer.
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Sadove, chairman and chief executive officer of Saks Incorporated, who spoke at a Forbes breakfast a few weeks ago, is where the high-end luxury consumer is today.
Further, we anticipate carriers will not build large inventory levels for BB10, consistent with prior BB7 high-end launches, and will initially stock modest levels given the weaker consumer demand for high-end BlackBerry smartphones.
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Known as NuForce, the firm is recognizable amongst audiophiles both for its high-end gear and consumer lineup that often shames overpriced competitors.
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The company admitted to overestimating consumer appetite for high-end 3D TVs and notebook computers during the critical post-Thanksgiving selling season.
Unfortunately, the aggressive move into the consumer space with high-end PCs (Alienware, Adamo), TVs, MP3 players (that eventually never shipped), smartphones, tablets and even mini-stores, pretty much failed.
There are three options to contemplate this holiday season: a tiny, versatile action cam, a consumer camcorder or a high-end professional model.
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While not targeting the ultra-high-end market, Coach is targeting the affluent consumer.
Luxury brands struggle to retain high-end images despite the reality that the American consumer is motivated much more by discounts than they are by brand names or image.
LaCie has built an exceptional consumer brand by delivering exciting and innovative high-end products for many years.
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Nvidia, traditionally a manufacturer of high-end graphical hardware, announced its Project Shield console at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.
The machines the company will introduce are high-end models designed to appeal to serious users rather than the consumer market and come with price tags to match.
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But for those not yet willing to shell out thousands of dollars for their own home 3D-printer, Shapeways offers another path to bring software models into reality, asking consumers and retailers to upload their designs shipping the results back to them, printed on high-end machines with a level of precision and in materials that no consumer 3D printer can yet achieve.
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They see the internet as a baneful reality that has ended the high-end shopping experience and ushered in price comparison shopping (ouch), consumer review sites (eww), and gray market dealers (the horror).
That's great news for consumers but poses a problem for consumer electronics manufacturers that want to target an ultra-high-end niche.
The consumer chief left in 2010, after failed attempts at music players, phones and high-end laptops.
But overall, consumer and business adoption of these technologies remains limited, due in part either to expense (high-end retinal scanning equipment can be costly) or lack of awareness.
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In addition to eventually adding more functionality and a consumer-facing label to the Higg Index, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition plans to add more high-end fashion companies to its membership roster in the near future, which would differentiate it from virtually every other sustainability initiative in the apparel industry.
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