With enhanced visibility of inventory, quality, supply capability and demand fluctuations, we can expect to see reduced inventory, increased capacity utilisation and less waste in entire industry and multi-industry supply chains.
"We looked more like an automotive guy and less like the multi-industry company that we wanted to be, " said Barth.
Macaulay cofounded a multi-industry buyout shop in the mid-1980s, with the idea of investing in anything from apparel to pipelines.
Bankers are pressing other multi-industry companies with big defense holdings like Textron to make a similar move, although the Providence-based conglomerate shows little evidence of being interested.
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Textron was one of the high-flying conglomerates back when such enterprises were considered fashionable in the 1960s, and despite repeated makeovers it remains committed to its multi-industry character.
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When they try to persuade investors, and often themselves, that synergies abound (that two and two equals not merely five but six or more) in their takeovers of firms engaged in activities that they know next to nothing about, companies prefer such euphemisms as multi-industry business or non-related diversification.
Third, the clean technology industry is likely to be a multi trillion dollar industry on the global level.
Overall, I overestimated the ability of the multi-family industry to go parabolic.
Why is it that HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) and TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy) is a multi billion dollar industry and both are legally prescribing ANABOLIC STEROIDS!
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In a multi-billion dollar industry like gaming, market players take this kind of thing seriously.
Whether that makes up part of a multi-billion dollar industry remains to be seen.
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Mr Humphrey said the only winners in the multi-million pound industry were the human traffickers and pimps.
They obtained the monopoly of the multi-billion dollar industry after rival drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed by police in 1993.
The IPL started in 2008 and has become a multi-billion dollar industry.
Over recent years, marketing films to the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has become a multi-million dollar industry.
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One of the major leaps in the next few years will be mobile Wap gaming, predicted to become a multi-billion dollar industry by 2005, according to Datamonitor.
Pilgrimages to sites of special devotion have been a big business since the Middle Ages, but the ability of people to travel easily and cheaply has seen Catholic pilgrimages grow into a multi-billion dollar industry.
Europe believes a sat-nav system that is independent of GPS but inter-operable with it will drive a multi-billion euro industry in which receivers find their way into many more markets - from consumer mobile devices such as cell phones to safety-critical applications such as guided trains and buses.
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However, this sprawling, multi-billion-dollar industry built on the dreams of eager brides-to-be is killing my champagne buzz.
In 30 years, the 401(k) went from a small program to a multi-trillion-dollar industry supporting thousands of financial planners and money managers.
The multi-million dollar ski industry has yet to face up to the possibility of reduced winter sports and in impact on the local economies.
Of the former, almost 33m belong to health clubs, spawning a multi-billion-dollar industry of sports shoes, fitness foods, exercise videos, heart monitors and personal trainers.
Many of the unscientific folk medicine beliefs, the ones that failed us for centuries, are making a comeback, one that is supported by a multi-billion dollar supplement industry among others.
"To bring stability to the market and to provide fishermen and processors with the necessary long-term security that high levels of investment in the industry require, multi-annual management plans must be introduced for the main commercial stocks, " Mr Stevenson said.
"With mortgages rising and home prices at such a high level, people who might have considered purchasing a home a few years ago may now be turning to the rental market, particularly in big cities like New York, " says Richard Levy , a senior research analyst at the National Multi Housing Council , an industry association based in Washington, D.
It was hardly a speck within the multi-trillion dollar mutual fund industry.
The Carbon Nanostructures Consortium an industry-led, multi-sector effort established by Lockheed Martin to accelerate the development and transition of affordable, high-performance carbon nanostructure-enhanced materials.
Atari's Pong was an arcade game credited with helping kick-start the multi-billion pound video games industry but more recent titles include 'Centipede', 'Missile Command' and Rollercoaster Tycoon'.
The industry is contemplating a multi-million dollar educational outreach campaign.
The multi-billion dollar mental health industry ignores suicidal patients.
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