To get this response from customers, you must generate a flow of hit products.
And the company has cranked out a spate of hit products with no major supply chain problems.
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The company could once rely on growing sales for its hit products even after their hype-fueled launches.
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So the company has streamlined its innovation model to focus on health and nutrition while bringing more big hit products to the market.
Out of Apple's profits come more jobs and future hit products.
It is among the first hit products in a wave of hundreds of new DNA diagnostic tests that will overrun medicine in the next five to ten years.
Just stop looking for new things to do and just gouge as much profit as possible out of the decline over the decades of those two hit products.
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Supply-chain technology also will march in the direction of standards and ubiquity. (Think of personal computers.) At that point, decisive advantage will go to companies that use their supply chains to boost their rate of hit products.
Great frugal products that hit the market too late are not great products from a business perspective.
Margins are improving, and sales are set to increase once new products hit the shelves, but they haven't hit the shelves yet.
Overall, the third quarter is expected to be marginally positive as demand for consumer electronics goods, including smartphones and tablets, remains strong and a stream of new products hit the market.
While both companies have common roots in the computing business, Apple under Mr. Jobs has built itself into a profit machine through a string of hit consumer electronics products, starting with the iPod digital media player, followed by the iPhone, plus the iPad earlier this year.
Attach rate of new virtual management products could hit 20%-30%.
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The cleaning products industry dedicates an enormous amount of resources to assuring the safety of products, including many millions of dollars in research, development and testing before products ever hit the shelves.
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However, the Electrical Products segment got hit with a 27.7% decline in sales.
Of the 36, 000-plus new products that will hit the shelves in the U.S. this year, 80% will fail, says New Product News.
White-space consumer products could then hit the retail market by late 2012.
Three Indian ministers had the courage to resign from Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government in protest against a steep hike in the prices of petroleum products which has hit the poorer sections of society very badly.
Since 2006, the year the World Bank report takes as the starting point of piracy, exports of fish products from piracy-hit countries have declined by 23.8%.
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According to the World Bank, exports of fish products from piracy-hit countries have also suffered, declining by 23.8% since 2006, the year the report takes as the starting point of piracy.
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The company has already warned that its earnings margins will take a hit from investments in high-grade products and marketing.
Last year, Belgium was hit by a dioxin scare affecting meat products.
Japanese exporters have also been hit by a strong yen which makes their products more expensive overseas.
Just ask Newell Rubbermaid, the maker of cleaning products and other consumer staples that hit a slump in the late 1990s, about Wal-Mart's market power.
Yurii Vlasov, manager of IBM's silicon integrated nanophotonics efforts, said it expects the first commercial products based on its research to hit the market in three to five years.
Just ask Newell Rubbermaid (nyse: NWL - news - people ), the maker of cleaning products and other consumer staples that hit a slump in the late 1990s, about Wal-Mart's market power.
Products using the disks are expected to hit the market sometime this year.
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