Being large and established meant you were supposed to have market clout, and you could protect your profits.
Home Depot's market clout is so prodigious that it can make manufacturers do crazy things--like upset their distribution channels.
But for better or worse, Old Masters in general have nothing like the market clout of their twentieth century cousins.
In the end, when Wall Street moguls tell their clients to buy or sell, the clients and hedge fund associates have enough market clout to move prices significantly.
The best way to combine the benefits of competition with greater market clout may be to build fewer but larger pan-European firms, rather than a scatter of national giants.
To truly revive Nokia's market clout, Mr. Elop should hire smart, creative executives "who understand what it means to disrupt" the norm, said a telecom recruiter not involved with Nokia.
But rival Tesco, which has the kind of market clout there that Wal-Mart has across the Atlantic, claims much better profit margins, thanks to its ability to wrangle discounts from suppliers.
But editorial subservience looks unlikely, given the newspaper's clout in its local market.
This would prevent Samsung from leveraging its growing clout in the Android market and put a cap on its market share growth potential in the future.
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Because the computer retail business is so competitive, and because the big companies have so much clout in the Forbes 500s market, the Crowns concentrate on selling to small and medium-size businesses.
Because the computer retail business is so competitive, and because the big companies have so much clout in the Forbes 500s market of big American companies, the Crowns concentrate on selling to small and medium-size businesses.
Visa and MasterCard now face a massive class action, led by Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ), that accuses them of using their clout in the credit card market to force retailers to accept their debit cards, which carry higher processing costs.
Google is not mentioned anywhere in Mr Ballmer's letter, but its increasing clout in the online-advertising market, as a result of its leadership in search, is what has motivated the deal.
And few traders will have the clout to set up their own hedge funds in today's market conditions.
It hopes that Mercedes will provide the international clout it needs, and the expertise to revive its mass-market range, which has been languishing for decades.
VTech, which will never have the marketing clout of the rich-world giants, is happier using its market as a launch pad into electronics than into other sorts of toys.
The Democratic member of the Ways and Means Committee allegedly agreed to invest in the company and use his clout to bring in business, including by helping to open the Nigerian market to the firm's technology.
During the 2008 investor conference, sponsored by Sandler O'Neill, Mr. Greifeld crowed to a group that included Mr. Niederauer that Nasdaq's market share in stock trading was climbing, while a key gauge of the NYSE's clout had slipped below 28%.
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Comcast, despite its clout as the biggest operator in the U.S., is keeping its testing market secret to avoid offending the two powerful boxmakers.
The chief executive of a national newspaper group or a television network may run a company whose market capitalisation is less than that of a middling bank or brewery, but has far greater political clout.
Sun, now an underdog with its proprietary technology and withered market capitalization, can't mount the consulting-heavy approaches of HP or IBM nor match the marketing clout of Microsoft.
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