Heineken has learned that, while Africa poses substantial operating challenges for consumer products makers, those hurdles are not insurmountable.
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On April 27th, China's National Council of Light Industry said it wanted to merge most of the household-products makers into publicly traded firms by the turn of the century.
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It currently pays its bills on average within 45 days, faster than the 60 to 100 days that other consumer products makers and large companies in other industries generally take, according to industry experts.
Today, it was confirmed in the press that Harry Winston is indeed looking to sell its stores and has been peddling the wares to the likes of LVMH, makers of Louis Vuitton luxury products, and PPR, makers of Gucci luxury products.
The private company in Mountain View, California also licenses its products to hardware makers Siemens and 3Com.
The survey was sponsored by the Abbott Laboratories, Medisense Products, the makers of the Soft-Sense meter, also launched on World Diabetes Day, which promises normally pain-free testing.
Thermo has been gaining market share because its broad line of products allows pharmaceutical makers, university research labs, health care providers and other science clients it serves to consolidate their purchases.
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If it is seen to favour Motorola's products, other device makers might abandon Android.
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Many of those products are modified by makers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses that see new uses for them (see the list).
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Now the Federal Trade Commission and the New York State attorney general are questioning whether such products do what their makers claim.
Now the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the New York State attorney general are questioning whether the products do what their makers claim.
Identify the decision-makers for your products and services, and then determine their information needs.
Makers of complementary products expect to grow rich too and will look elsewhere if profits fall.
The approach is even more important for makers of durable products, like Evenflo, where purchasing cycles tend to be less frequent.
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Good old Neuros, makers of such products as the 442 PMP and MPEG-4 recorder, are getting all gushy with open source again.
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Makers of baby products have taken a new approach to advertising.
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Like the makers of baby products, governments deal with uniquely sensitive problems, from ensuring that terrorists never get past airport security to keeping deadly germs out of the food supply.
The deal underpins the importance that slow-growing technology giants place on faster-growing, web-based software makers, whose products are less vulnerable to the economic downturn as there are no upfront costs for program licenses, dedicated hardware or installation.
The absence of tight oversight has allowed makers of herbal products to flourish, particularly in Utah, where the dry desert air helps keep raw materials and pills and capsules fresh, and where land and skilled labor have been relatively inexpensive.
Telecom-equipment makers worried that their products would be required to comply with federal wire-tap laws.
But Peter Stephenson, spokesman for the Absorbent Hygiene Products Manufacturers Association, which represents makers of disposable nappies, dismissed the study.
The hands-off "openness" of Google lets device makers put out whatever products might generate sales for them without giving thought to what makes the whole ecosystem better.
It would now be following 12 "tenets to promote competition, " and let computer makers remove any Microsoft products when shipping a PC with the upcoming Vista operating system.
Why not tell case makers more about future products?
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The makers of the most profitable products can afford to saturate the public with advertising.
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Corning's Gorilla glass enables device makers to introduce durable display products with innovative designs.
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Now a growing number of computer makers are giving away their products in exchange for on screen time.
Once he has accumulated enough capital, Wang plans to open a "commercial investigation firm" to target makers of fake and substandard products.
Renert says Tello works with products from Cisco Systems and Avaya, makers of traditional private branch exchanges (PBXs), plus Digium, an open-source PBX software company.
Household names these are not, but unlike Koreas struggling makers of me-too products such as cars and memory chips, Lims firm sticks to things others cant easily copy.
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