But it has a strong balance sheet and diversified product base: 60% of profits come from assembling integrated chips.
It is titans going at each other at their core product base.
Armed with a thoroughly patented and successful base product, it has to explore all the possible applications.
Cellulose fuel production would require a consistant base product so it would become necessary to secure massive amounts of plant fiber to ensure uninterrupted production.
Both the base product and the added gadgets are currently available through the company's Web site and will soon be available at retailers like Bestbuy.com and CompUSA .
"Our ability to broaden our product and distribution base will enable us to mitigate to some extent any short term weakness in our traditional hobby sectors, " said Hornby chief executive Frank Martin.
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When it comes to the product itself the customer base is just so excited about it.
Companies that have achieved critical mass in terms of advertiser, publisher and consumer base, product portfolio, technology and business teams, are going to be able to ride the wave.
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That, in turn, creates a better product than a disengaged employee base ever could.
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Mak also likes Venture because of its large customer base, huge product range and dynamic management.
These are the first cash-settled calendar swaps for a base-metals product at Comex.
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It's a curious way of treating an entirely legal business that seems dedicated to radically expanding the customer base for your product.
The report said this reflects higher prices for labor, electricity and maintenance, as well as reduced by-product credits resulting from lower base-metals prices.
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The news weeklies got hit harder because of the nature of the product, and that particular base was one of the first to leave print almost entirely.
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In fact, the case could easily be made overall consumption increased in the TV market because falling prices made the product available to a larger base of consumers.
As the product gets better, the user base gets bigger and we can think about monetization.
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No doubt the installed base of the latter product is multiples of the former, but we can see that increasingly people are ready to buy the newer, alternative technology.
Since Storage Options arrived in the UK in 2010, the brand has gone from strength to strength successfully growing its customer base and expanding its product portfolio into many new areas.
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Commitment to the company's existing technology, product line, distribution system or customer base becomes a sacred cow.
The Stirling-based group said it expected the "fiberising" equipment to improve product quality and further reduce its cost base.
There has been speculation for months about who would buy Delicious, which still has a large user base, but a languishing product.
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Any user-interface designer will tell you: The quickest ways to enrage your user base are to redesign your product or rejigger its functionality.
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As demand for tablet devices increases, Samsung expects to maintain strong earnings momentum in the OLED business by broadening its customer base and offering a diverse product lineup.
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Failure to provide good customer service or a good product at this stage often results in a decrease in the customer base, forcing the entrepreneur back to step one to find customers to purchase their product.
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The strong numbers are a testament to a great product on the ice, a growing fan base that loves our game, and a strategy that provided a path for corporate America to reach that fan base.
Using its own product-development skills, Yamaichi's customer base and Sanwa's 400 branches, Merrill hoped for a fast start in fund management.
Programmatic details can vary, but if you engage a wider base of providersto deliver a broader healthcare product in a more accessible place, you get better healthcare for less.
As Google Vice President of Product Management Sundar Pichai noted, the potential customer base of 120 million Chrome browser users is bigger than those available to any mobile developer.
"We believe that this acquisition gives Blackboard an additional presence in less-penetrated international markets, as well as large installed base to which it can upsell its product suites, " Roderick said.
The challenge is that sustaining growth and innovation through acquisition is good when the goal is to address real customer problems but not when the goal is the more cynical goal of merely selling yet another product through an existing sales channel to an existing customer base.
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