The companies offer big dividends as incentives to investors to stick with them while they make acquisitions or build up other products that will make share prices grow again.
U.S. sales of Fisher Price products make up 21% of revenue and the American Girl business accounts for about 5%.
Petroleum products make up the bulk of African exports to the US, but exports of textiles, minerals and agricultural goods have picked up.
The industry's anti-aging push takes a page from the playbook of skin care, where anti-aging products make up a large and growing share of sales.
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The big issue is whether new products can make up for the patent expiration in two years of top-seller Zocor, a cholesterol drug.
Other countries with big economies and high standards of living have rejected the disposable products that make up so much of America's garbage in part because European countries hold manufacturers, not taxpayers, responsible for the costs of packaging waste.
Samsung can afford to mess up several of its models, as other successful products in their portfolio will make up for losses, but what would be the impact of two generations of poor iPhones in a row on Apple?
It will make gaining take up of future Google products more difficult.
Unilever, meanwhile, has the highest emerging-market exposure and could gain from price increases in household and personal care products, which make up around half of its sales, this year.
Moreover, less than a third of new drugs these days are first or second in their class and it is hard to charge blockbuster prices for the mediocre medications and line extensions that make up the rest of the new products.
Exports have shifted towards engineering products, which now make up a fifth of the total.
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Yes, some patents expire soon, like those for Eloxatin, Plavix and Taxotere, but growth of existing and new products should more than make up for expirations.
Just as many top athletes can make more money promoting products than they do working up a sweat, so the top gamers are beginning to attract sponsors.
Retailers will need to make up for those lost margins by driving sales of other products.
In Japan private-label goods make up just 5% of Euromonitor's core grocery products.
Because the Drachma will fall in price rather sharply these products will shoot up in price and make Greece an uncompetitive market for tourists.
Today nearly half the country's 22 million people live in Riyadh or Jidda, and Saudis make up the biggest market for U.S. consumer products in the Middle East.
Most companies that make the inhalers have retooled, reinvested, and come up with new products that are CFC-free.
Users can manage their pharmacy prescriptions such as fill out rapid refills, find deals on products, and make orders that they can then pick up in their local store.
Foxconn has been in front of most other factories with wage increases to make sure it doesn't face labor shortages as it ramps up production for products, like the iPhone 5, that are critical to the success of its customers.
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To develop the efficiency reserves, engineers make equipment and programming decisions based on maximizing profit, not a mark-up of products.
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Hebrew National, owned by ConAgra Foods, says on its website that its certification by Triangle K comes from an orthodox Jewish agency made up of "the most stringent Jews" that provide rabbinical supervision and make sure its products and ingredients meet the "strictest criteria" for kosher.
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Over the past several years, Fuller has steered Borland's products beyond purely engineering-orientated products (the software compliers and debuggers that, along with other tools, make up the so-called integrated development environment) to include tools for project managers, some of who may not be directly involved in code writing.
What Cat can do is add new products here and there, none of which are blockbusters but, when added up, make a difference.
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