Calabria remains the epicenter of production, and the cosmetics and tea industries are the primary customers.
Food service distributors will suffer, as their primary customers are restaurants, which have struggled from weak consumer spending.
Even in industries whose primary customers are women, men have been holding the reins with no intention of including beardless pretty faces in strategic planning and leadership.
Yet, without a cogent economic argument for payors (and, increasingly, for regulators), drug developers are going to have an increasingly difficult time getting their products into the hands of their primary customers.
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Bigelow predicted that the primary customers will be upwardly mobile countries including Brazil, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates that "have a difficult time getting their astronauts into orbit" and could use a private space station to barter and build up prestige.
However, if they cannot make money on a 20% margin after fulfilling their primary purpose to their customers, is this really a business they should be in?
Lifeline provides discounts on basic monthly service at a primary residence for qualified telephone customers.
In fact, certain UBS customers with a primary investment objective of income held Non-Traditional ETFs for periods of several months.
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Certain UBS registered representatives also made unsuitable recommendations of Non-Traditional ETFs to certain customers with a primary investment objective of income.
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The Retail Banking segment provides deposit, lending, brokerage, trust, investment management, and cash management services to consumer and small business customers within its primary geographic markets.
Increasing use of email by both enterprise and consumer customers as a primary means of communication is driving demand for smartphones like the iPhone.
But at least in individual segments, such as natural-disaster policies and other policies in the U.S. that were hit by large claims last year, reinsurers hope to be able to get higher rates from their customers, the primary insurers.
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More than 60% of its customers use Palo Alto as its primary firewall, a portion that climbs to 75% if you count only customers signed up since August.
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Facebook as a primary tool for either acquiring new customers of generating sales leads.
Each of these competitors may be willing to bid high enough, not necessarily to keep streaming profitable but to help attract and keep the customers loyal to its primary business.
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"The primary driver here is quality and protecting customers, not adherence to the monthly schedule, " read the blog.
In the software business, the primary source of innovation is working with customers.
Traditionally, a baseball or football team has only been able to track its ticket buyers--an important component of knowing the demographics of its customers--based on primary sales.
In fact, the disruption and chaos from a merge often drives customers away and is the primary reason acquisitions do not measure up to their projected financial benefits.
Microsoft bundles the Forefront Protection Suite in eCAL and then their sales teams push customers to adapt Forefront as their primary AV solution.
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They were sold as an add-on when customers were understandably focussing on their primary objective - getting a credit card, a loan or a mortgage.
The primary driver in the security industry is not the customers, as it is in every other industry.
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As handsets become more capable from battery and speed perspective, the migration of customers using the cell phone as a primary source of engagement is increasing quarter over quarter exponentially.
In Europe, where smaller circuses worked locally, innovation remained a primary requirement for each company, to lure in repeat customers.
January 6, 2005 - DirecTV, TiVo's primary source of (new) subscribers with 2 of their 3 million customers, announces that it will introduce its own integrated digital video recorder.
That's potentially bad news for InterActiveCorp's TicketMaster, which has agreements with many pro teams and concert venues as a primary ticket distributor but isn't set up to broker deals between customers.
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For this reason, the primary concern has been focused on what the changes will mean for younger health insurance customers who purchase individual policies.
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The sequential and year-on-year increase was primarily due to higher churn of branded contract customers as a result of competitive market conditions and all of T-Mobile's primary nationwide competitors offering the iPhone 4S in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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For customers who live within the designed area of each market, DIRECTV will deliver HD programming from the primary broadcast networks - ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC - where available.
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