The ebb and flow of product introductions by these companies and their competitors can dramatically affect quarter-to-quarter swings, while annual comparisons show trends.
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Business will always flow to the lowest priced product, even if the lower price is the result of government price controls.
You can allocate your best employees to explore new lines of business, you can count on a consistent flow of cash from your more mature product or service lines, and you can focus your management team on offense.
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He's encouraged by the company's robust cash flow, dominant market leadership position and broad product line-up.
Not today, not tomorrow, but months or even years down the line when they are committed to the product and it is fully integrated into their work-flow.
"A lot of users do want to read this stuff but they don't want to necessarily read it in their everyday flow, " said Steve Crossan, a product manager at Gmail.
Your continued flow of great content induces them to give your product or service a try.
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That is boosted cash flow, but it has also led to lack of product in some markets, and forced RIM to ramp up production to meet demand.
These plants need the fresh water flow from the river for cooling, processing, and to ship their product out to the Gulf.
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Its best-known customer (and majority-owner) is Tesco, a British supermarket with a Clubcard loyalty-card scheme that generates a mind-numbing flow of data on the purchases of 13m members across 55, 000 product lines.
In a statement Tuesday, HP said it intends to court Dell customers who are worried about the company's ability to innovate, expand its product line and pay its bills now that it will have to earmark some of cash flow to reduce the debt taken on to go private.
Jobs were cut from overhead and at stores, product lines were cut, and stores were closed every quarter in an effort to preserve dwindling cash flow.
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Scenario development helps them to understand what the future can be like, and drive their product development toward creating new markets with more customers, more unit sales, higher revenues and improved cash flow.
An annuity is a financial product sold as a way to collect and grow funds and then later receive those funds as a steady cash flow during retirement.
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So rather than taking advantage of cheap sterling to shift vastly more product and invest to increase capacity, they are increasing their dollar prices to widen their profit margins and boost cash flow.
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