Consumer response has been lukewarm, though, with 3-D TV sales falling short of industry expectations in 2010.
According to most industry expectations, by 2025 global oil consumption will increase by more than 50 percent.
The expansion plans are in line with industry expectations that global sales of whisky will continue to grow strongly.
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Shipments of 3-D TVs this year will end up well below industry expectations, based on data from research firm DisplaySearch.
The best-informed investors estimate it will take four and a half years for U.S. corporations to get ready for the shift, in line with industry expectations.
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Ellis notes that Samsung is targeting sales of 9 million Galaxy Tabs, and adds that checks in Asia find industry expectations for the category in the 40 million to 60 million range.
Many magazine editors, modelling agents and casting directors say they want to use more diverse models, but can't because of industry expectations - with each blaming the other group for setting the tone.
"Identity Thief" came in above industry expectations despite the storm and poor reviews for the comedy, which stars Bateman as a man chasing down a con artist (McCarthy) who has racked up thousands of dollars of charges in his name.
Rather than ratcheting up expectations ahead of the launch Microsoft Windows 8 in late October, the industry is slashing expectations in the face of macro weakness in Europe and elsewhere.
In electricity, competition was forced on the industry, against expectations, because ministers and regulators set a deadline by which the market had to be opened up.
Jet maker Boeing has announced yet another delay to its 787 Dreamliner, confirming expectations of industry analysts, along with Boeing's customers.
General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler each reported December U.S. sales that exceeded expectations and industry-wide sales are running at an annualized rate of over 15 million.
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Jet maker Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people ) has announced yet another delay to its 787 Dreamliner, confirming expectations of industry analysts, along with Boeing's customers.
U.S. new-vehicle sales in March from the Detroit Three missed the expectations of industry researcher Edmunds.com, though sales figures topped year-earlier levels and were near the best since before the financial crisis.
He said some information was already available and showed the first set of results were "more or less in line with the expectations of the industry".
But the combination of two good companies is not always a good thing and when they bridge separate segments of an industry the results rarely meet the expectations of the acquirer.
It is hard to imagine that union-employer debates in any other industry would be resolved with such low expectations of performance.
Even Cisco continues to maintain a conservative stance while setting quarterly expectations, implying a challenging industry outlook over the next few quarters.
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Analysts highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal report note that improving confidence on the part of the consumer has helped boost revenue growth expectations for the credit card industry.
How can innovation and long term structural changes happen under such constant pressures when industry leaders, are held hostage to those expectations?
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That pricing power is crucial in an industry that now carries the weight of higher expectations after several disastrous years in the wake of the housing bubble.
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Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst at NPD Group, says the expectations for Dec. 26 to rank among the top six best shopping days this year will not likely be met.
In a nutshell, rather than targetting every industry out there, cloud providers might want to focus on one or two, and continue to innovate along the requirements and expectations of businesses and individuals in that industry.
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Mr Delaney wrote the decision was prompted by expectations of a continued decline in the tourism industry.
One of the key events of the day is the Young Leaders Forum, a group of young business students and scientists debating on the theme 'The world in 2050: our expectations from the life sciences, chemistry, industry and governments to build a better world by 2050'.
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The painful cuts and reduced expectations at Merck highlight the larger difficulties of the drug industry.
Semiconductor equipment stocks have come under pressure recently from expectations of several weak quarters of demand ahead as chip industry results soften.
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Expectations are high among some financial analysts, investors and industry experts that the low-cost airlines, which now hold only 7% of the intra-European air travel market as reckoned by the number of passengers they fly, and even less by revenue, can reach the penetration levels achieved by their U.S. counterparts.
The drinks industry boom contrasts with other sectors where sales are not living up to high expectations.
Company officials believe that by raising the expectations of Chinese customers, Caterpillar can steer China's equipment industry toward a new business model that favors Caterpillar's service-oriented approach.
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