One of its core products, BBX, introduced in 1985, provides application developers with software for programming.
Still in charge, the Lauder family has managed to roll out lucrative new products and make smart acquisitions around its core products line while keeping a lid on overhead.
But O'Neill refocused Alcoa on its core products, made a huge push for workplace safety, sold its corporate aircraft and hacked away at decades of hierarchy to help encourage ideas from the bottom up.
The company said it would now focus on modernising its "core Yahoo products experiences".
Broadcom declared that some of its customers will ramp a higher number of mid-range and higher-end smartphones with its dual-core products in the coming quarters.
In its last earnings call transcript, Broadcom declared that some of its customers will ramp a higher number of mid-range and higher-end smartphones with its dual-core products in the coming quarters.
But it is another to understand that its core building-products business, the one it is supposed to be focusing on, is selling to a construction industry that remains flat on its back in Thailand and pretty dismal throughout Asia.
Its once spectacular revenue growth has slowed to a crawl on stagnant sales for its core cardiac defibrillator and pacemaker products, mounting skepticism over its back-surgery devices and industrywide price pressures.
Geoff Cook, who took over as chief executive at the company at the start of this year, said significant progress had been made in cutting costs and realigning the business to focus on its core protein-based products.
It has decided to divest its office and consumer products unit and focus on its core businesses.
The problem: While Intel makes a mighty fine central processing unit (CPU)--its Centrino 2 and Core 2 products can be found in most of the world's laptop and desktop computers--the company has stumbled repeatedly when it has tried to break out of that market.
According to the turnaround plan, HP will re-focus on its core printing business by introducing new and innovative products.
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The company has spent most of the past year trying to break away from its core product lines, which are removable storage products for personal computers.
Customers generally tend to buy an entire solution to meet their network infrastructure requirements, and Cisco has capitalized on its ability to deliver both core network equipment and security products.
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Groupon has been struggling with its core daily deals business while it builds out a new products business.
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Under the leadership of cochairmen Antony Burgmans and the recently retired Niall FitzGerald the company has spent the last five years slashing hundreds of food and personal care products from its portfolio to concentrate on 400 core brands.
Over the last decade, Heinz has undergone significant restructuring shedding its less profitable non-core businesses with greater resource focus on core products and brands, product development and marketing.
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The news here, to me, is that SAP is now saying that a core capability that could potentially be used in all of its products will come from the cloud and come from a third party.
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Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker by sales, has been shedding businesses outside its core medicine franchise to focus on developing prescription medicines to replace aging products such as cholesterol drug Lipitor, which now faces generic competition.
Good thing, however, is that EA is not shying away from direct competition, and instead most of its awaited products slated for release next quarter challenges its competitors in their core gaming genres.
With Apple no longer seen as the market leader in innovation, some analysts believe it may now have to rethink its core strategy, which is based on focusing on a handful of premium products.
By entrepreneurs I mean specifically the narrow class the term has come to define in the last decade: specifically technology entrepreneurs who start companies to build products or services with some sort of technological innovation at its core, with the Internet playing an important role in the venture.
The company, long considered a core holding for the ubiquity of products like Band-Aids and its stable dividend, has seen its stock underperform the broader market under Weldon.
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As a result, HMV has managed to alienate its core market of CD-buyers, while failing to attract new customers for other products, leaving it in the worst of all worlds.
One of the ways the company has been able to do that is through its nip and tuck in acquisition strategy that allowed Apple to obtain core technology that it could use in new products and services.
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