The key for sponsors operating with the new marketing concept was exclusivity through its product segment.
It doesn't break out profits by product segment, but its gross margin rate is declining.
Its cosmetics product segment provides various products under the brand name of OHUI, Whoo, ISA KNOX and LacVert.
It lost global market share in most of its major product segment categories.
The notion of creating giant specialty stores that cater to a particular product segment has become a staple of the U.S. economy.
We estimate that tissues are the second largest product segment within Kimberly-Clark after baby care, and constitute 28% of our estimate stock value.
Meanwhile, it's still too early to tell whether netbooks have created a new global product segment or cannibalized traditional ones, says Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa.
This gives it an opportunity to charge higher prices by expanding into the premium product segment, thereby increasing its revenues and operating margins in the future.
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Nokia has been able to leverage its new Asha series of feature phones to manage the decline and maintain decent profitability of a shrinking product segment.
By changing to product segment reporting going forward, but not providing this information for the period just ended, we believe management is intentionally emphasizing declining PC sales in order to justify its inadequate buyout price.
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Though the price is high, Servio appears to be at the head of the pack in what is likely to become an increasingly necessary product segment as more of our lives revolve around digital information.
Depending on the target market segment and product price points, these preferences can swing wildly and make it difficult to excel in cost, speed, and technology.
After developing a hypothesis on which customer segment a product is focused on, a team can use a technique like contextual design to look at behavior patterns and latent needs.
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Whats more, the toy category is part of a larger segment called the childrens product market--including apparel and other non-recreational childrens items--that has really been heating up lately.
If Apple only moves production of one segment of its Macintosh product line, as reports indicate, the total shift in COGS could amount to less than 1 percent in 2013.
France's dilemma is described in a November report on competitiveness to the French government by Louis Gallois, the former chief executive officer of EADS. Bottom line: Unlike their counterparts across the Rhine, French industrial companies have ended up in the wrong segment of the global product markets.
This will be an expensive product but much sought after by a smaller segment of our user base.
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These impressive statistics suggest that Google lacks market power in a critical segment of search namely, product searches.
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Secular drivers such as environmental regulations and increasing product returns for companies entering the e-commerce segment will also support this growth.
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The new platform brings Intel's classic product strengths to this fast-growing smartphone market segment, including impressive performance for quick Web browsing, and a great multimedia and Android1 applications experience.
The tablet market will likely change the way people use computers, and so major computer companies need to have some competing product or risk missing out on the huge growth in this segment.
With every product categorised and graded across every attribute, Dunnhumby is able to segment and cluster Tesco's customers based on what they buy.
However, if your product portfolio is diverse and relatively established within the marketplace, or the segment of the market you are in has matured to a level where customers fully understand the value from solutions such as yours, then a partnership would serve you well by lowering the cost of sales and expanding your footprint on the market.
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Thus, any improvement in this segment has a greater relative affect on company value than any other product line.
Though Intel has expanded its product offering to leverage the fast growing mobile computing market, PCs remain the most important segment for its valuation.
These approaches can take the guesswork out of developing product assortments which appeal to Millennials, enabling retailers to continue to gain share in this challenging segment.
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Between them, the company's engineers and designers have come up with the Qoros 3, their launch product at the Geneva show, which will go on sale later this year in the market segment where the Volkswagen Golf is the leader.
In the Specialty Materials segment, Corning anticipates fourth-quarter sales declines of about 15%, reflective across all product lines ncluding Gorilla Glass.
Even so, the iPad proved to be another ground-breaking product with sales topping billions of dollars in the first couple of months, bringing new life to a segment of the computer market that had until then been essentially moribund.
Apart from the high input cost environment, margins have been adversely affected by disproportionate growth in developing markets and mid-tier products, which have lower than segment average selling prices (ASPs) and lower demand for premium-priced products leading to an adverse product mix and a downward pressure on margins.
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