Today Courtice Steel makes good money, producing 250, 000 metric tons of long products a year.
Established companies frequently make unprofitable investments or stick too long with products and services that no longer meet the needs of customers.
Yes, some have been, having learned tighter inventory controls increased chances that if they wait too long, products might not be there.
Before long, similar products were listed in the United Kingdom, United States and elsewhere.
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If we want long-lasting products that retain their value, we have to support products that do so.
In particular, Google says, the service should help boost traffic to long-tail products.
Not so long ago most products were produced using a handful of atoms from the periodic table, like copper, iron, nickel, and aluminum.
But the iPad is but the latest in a long line of products and would-be general-purpose devices that seeks to fill this gap, most of them short-lived.
France has long considered artistic products as "exceptions", unique to their cultural heritage, and so worthy of financial support or protection from the ruthless market.
Ajjor owns a furniture factory within eyeshot of the Gaza-Israel border and can point out the gate through which not too long ago his products were shipped to Israel.
Milk is the latest in a long line of products to go up in price since the new Conservative government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took office just three weeks ago.
But it's also troubling given Nokia's promise to launch a MeeGo device in 2010 -- with just three and a half months left in the year (and Nokia being notorious for announcing products long before shipping), we still don't have a MeeGo smartphone announcement.
In a recent interview she recalled sitting next to a banker on a plane who said he would like to offer routine, low-margin products but so long as his competitors were selling high-margin financial products he had to choice.
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Macy's has argued that the JCP Everyday products violate its long-standing exclusive contract with Martha Stewart in a broad array of products that include bedding and cookware.
Sale of such long-lasting factory products rose by 5.7% in February, the biggest increase in five months.
And Internet banks have discovered that customers have a stubbornly persistent preference for buying long-term savings products face-to-face.
But because of old systems and heavy congestion, it still takes too many products too long to cross our borders.
Once the Uranium is split, you still have massive amounts of long lived radioactive waste products which are still the main danger from current nuclear plants.
There are big glass doors, long tables with Microsoft products people can try out, helpful store employees with bright T-shirts and lanyards, walls of accessories and scattered software.
We have long been offering innovative products and services to our customers in the United States and we have always been a responsible investor, employer, taxpayer and corporate citizen.
Albert Flynn, the chairman of the EFSA panel, says this point will be resolved when a product requires authorisation for a health claim derived from its omega-3 content, as only those products containing long-chain omega-3s are likely to be able to provide any evidence to support such claims.
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But revving up growth in the long term will require new products that differentiate the company from competitors.
But how many of us have unwittingly eaten horsemeat, and how long has the mislabelling of products been going on?
Yet another critique comes from capital-intensive industries, where products take a long time to develop and remain on sale for years.
Although no single device will always satisfy everybody, these new products go a long way toward making the promise of wireless computing a reality.
He started with 600 potential products, a long and broad-ranging list of companies he hoped would jump at the opportunity to feature in the movie.
Marc Benioff, the tech entrepreneur who built software company Salesforce.com, has long said that companies and products should be as social as vacation updates on Facebook.
It's like coming full circle, as I've been a big fan of Adafruit products for a long time, but this makes it even more awesome than I could have originally imagined.
RadioShack's key wireless products business has long been deteriorating.
Staff on hand told us that the internals weren't quite final, but sound quality aside, we could easily see settling in with either of these products for a long, comfortable gaming session.
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