Gillette, boasts Al Zeien, the company's 68-year-old chairman, launches a new product only when it has made a genuine technical advance.
But just like your electric power company, you can sell your product only at a price acceptable to Canada's minister of health.
That takes time to happen many still see Microsoft as an operating system and one product only company but it can be powerful when it does happen.
If the product is only a third mechanical, we can own the physical product for a long time but it can evolve over time.
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An homogeneous product differentiated only by longstanding relationships between clients and their favored firm.
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Among other things, critics are concerned that any nicotine-based product will only serve as a gateway to smoking.
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"With wild caviar from Russia or Iran, the product was only in the marketplace after a few months, " he continues.
Now our particular product can only apply to so many mountains, valleys, and regions before we run out of space.
In that scenario, says Free World Dialup's Pulver, a carrier could block service and effectively make its own VoIP product the only available option.
The product is only set for launch in the U.S. so far, and demonstrates how important the American market is for Cadbury's gum brands.
The product will only get used if it's unobtrusive and suggests changes using the same software-building tools that developers commonly use, so the process is familiar.
It is pushing for a stiff labelling law under which a product could only claim dairy attributes buttery taste, creamy consistency, cheesy flavour if it contains those products.
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In 2012, the country's gross domestic product rose only 0.9%.
Some sellers even try to sell the good imitations very close to the original price of the product and only the informed consumer is able to spot the difference.
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The Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive states a product can only be sold if it has already been on the market for 30 years, including 15 years on the European market.
Furthermore, Sony aimed its product not only at the teenagers that were Nintendo's core market but, by producing more sophisticated (and, indeed, more violent) games, at older and wealthier players too.
She said the fact that the product has only just been recalled "exposes weaknesses in the government's handling of the horsemeat scandal where products were withdrawn, but in some cases not tested".
We gadget nerds have to endure unspeakable atrocities in order to slake that early adoption jones: first-run gear shipped DOA, buggy pre-release software, and months of waiting after a product leaks only to be greeted by a jacked-up price premium at launch.
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Alcohol would be a waste product of these replicating yeasts, but it's not the only product.
David Henry, NetGear Product Line Manager for consumer routers, told me Network Magic as the only product he's seen so far that attempts to manage the entire home network.
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Their own product literature makes only vague and unactionable statements about xanthones having antioxidant properties.
The Snapzoom isn't the only product of its kind, but it stands out for being universal.
It also requires the specialized product knowledge that only you have, as the business owner or expert.
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Once the only product line within Apple, the Mac contributes about 18 to 20% of their revenue.
And Zyprexa won't be the only product that Lilly will be counting on.
Out of 18 developers (yes, our software product developers) only 2 had ever had any serious programming experience before.
Its only product was a free voice- and text-messaging service for cellphone users.
It said beef lasagne was the only product affected and it was sourced externally rather than manufactured by Findus.
Mr. Silbermann co-founded Cold Brew Labs Inc. in 2008 and launched Pinterest, the company's only product, the following year.
Producers will worry a great deal about the price of their only product.
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