But if Kraft is a low-growth company it is also a huge and profitable one.
British businesses are very dependent on selling to rich but relatively low-growth economies.
Aetna, an old Connecticut insurance firm, was trying to shift from low-growth financial services into the booming managed-care business.
Perhaps they see a low-growth, low-margin company that, for all its calisthenics, is really too big to change much.
More will be shifting from the high-priced, low-growth big metros for opportunity cities such as Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Raleigh and Charlotte.
And even in low-growth industries, many firms are healthy to begin with.
For example, there will be hot spots in technology and emerging markets, and little activity in low-growth regions and certain lower level job types.
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In the U.S. decades of market dominance have made Coke a low-growth staple: The ten-year compound annual unit-case growth in the U.S. is only 4%.
Investors now worry that mobile telecoms is merely a low-growth utility, rather than an industry on the verge of a new phase of explosive expansion.
Over the last couple of years big-name financial firms have been announcing major job cuts as they try to remain profitable in a low-growth environment.
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BNP's chief executive Jean-Laurent Bonnafe said he saw a "low-growth scenario in Europe" but that Asia would be among the bright spots of the global economy.
Cookies and motor oil don't appear to have much in common, but both are low-growth industries with basically interchangeable products, where strong brand names are key.
Lay encouraged executives to shift cash from Enron's boring, low-growth pipelines into more exciting ventures, sometimes giving the division chiefs a chance to invest in them.
That means less of their budget deficits can be considered sustainable long term and more cuts are needed now to adapt to their new low-growth future.
Consumer publishing is a low-growth, low-margin business, but Pearson is probably stuck with Penguin Putnam because Bertelsmann, the only likely prospective purchaser, just bought Random House.
In effect, advertisers have efficiency-ed themselves into a low-growth position.
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History demonstrates, however, that the illusory high-revenue path will be undermined in reality by low-growth economic performance created by tax disincentives to work, save, invest and take entrepreneurial risks.
The economy is stuck in low-growth, employment in no-growth.
Grocery is a low-growth industry where the only way to add sales is by capturing more market share, which Claus seems to be on track for with both improved stores and, now, acquisition.
So focused on fighting off the alligators and mosquitos out to eat them that they long ago forgot their mission was to create new markets with new products that could carry them out of the low-growth swamp.
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The results: In the first year, in the participating countries, sales increased by 7%, re-investment rates (buying new products when old ones mature) went up by 24%, and far fewer customers canceled policies (all astounding numbers in a low-growth, mature business).
That said, as fixed-line voice telephony becomes a low-growth commodity, it is Sprint's mobile-phone arm and its 4m subscribers that must seem irresistible to Mr Ebbers, especially in the wake of last week's deal to unite the American wireless assets of Vodafone AirTouch with Bell Atlantic's mobile business.
"However, of course, in the real economy we have a very difficult situation in many countries -- high unemployment, low growth -- and we have to use the better sentiment in the markets and restoration of confidence to bolster growth and job creation, " Rehn said.
This is a step in the right direction, says Director of Research John Derrick, as China tries to balance too-low growth with too-high inflation.
For example, strong low-inflationary growth boosts share prices, which boost investment and hence productivity.
Intel ( INTC, 25 ) is a low-risk growth giant perceived as high risk.
The implicit hint is that inflation and fiscal stimulus can yield a low-quality growth that is unsustainable.
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