She returned with a brand new seasonal Christmas cup complete with its post-consumer waste collar and plastic top.
This diagram is significantly more complex than the first one, since the industrial-to-consumer transition was fundamentally simpler than the consumer-to-post-consumer.
By tackling the harder problem of recycling ocean plastic, Method hopes to raise awareness about the greater need to use post-consumer plastics.
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San Francisco-based Method already uses 100% post-consumer plastic in all its bottles, but has struggled to get other companies to follow its lead.
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The company has been packaging its soaps, detergents and cleaners in post-consumer recycled plastic for years now, something it was told it would never be able to do.
In 2006, the company introduced a hot beverage paper cup with 10% post-consumer recycled fiber and in 2008 it rolled out a new plastic cup that has less of an environmental impact than its original plastic cups.
Friday, we will get the first real post-cliff reading on consumer sentiment, which may be revealing.
In 2010, Ogilvie and Mather did a study of consumer attitudes post- the 2009 recession.
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The market for post-secondary education could be every bit as open, diverse, and consumer-friendly.
Over the summer, venture capital firm Emergence Capital looked at the post-IPO performance of business-to-business technology stocks versus those of business-to-consumer companies.
Although the research cited in the post describes trends associated with consumer preference for self-service, rather than live-service, Dixon and Ponomareff extrapolate these results to argue that, when it comes right down to it, customers may not be all that interested in building relationships with companies.
Optimists like to think that a wave of post-partum euphoria will, for example, help boost consumer spending.
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Her post-graduation hopes for a big-city career marketing consumer products were dashed.
Neat ideological labels have become harder to pin on parties since they have had to contend with the emergence of what some commentators call post-material issues (such as the environment, personal morality and consumer rights) which do not slot elegantly into the old left-right framework.
Becoming a Benefit Corporation builds on that foundation of trust, and it mitigates the risk of consumer-fan (not to mention employee) disappointment and desertion post-sale.
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"We would urge people to start thinking about Christmas post and stocking up on second-class stamps now, " said Robert Hammond, of Consumer Focus.
The company admitted to overestimating consumer appetite for high-end 3D TVs and notebook computers during the critical post-Thanksgiving selling season.
The poor post-IPO performance of the likes of Facebook, Zynga and Groupon has chilled market interest for some consumer internet companies, subsequently turning some investors toward more stable enterprise software companies, whose business-subscription models offer a more steady stream of revenue.
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In a new paper, with the racy title Debt and Deleveraging: uneven progress on the path to growth, McKinsey asserts that the task of reducing the indebtedness of consumer-led economies such as the UK and Spain is barely underway (and see my earlier post, UK's debts biggest in the world, for more on this).
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