It provides a nice base (ideally a growing base) of revenue on which management can rely while focusing on ways to grow the business.
Despite being a broader portfolio tracking a more widely followed benchmark, its small asset base provides a shallow market for its shares.
But although the research provides a valuable data base for future study, Impressa president Joe Cortright says it doesn't explain what caused the communities to evolve in the way they have.
Social media opens up new pathways of communication between a business and its customer base and provides a forum for co-operation and co-creation - one that can produce both small, iterative improvements and large breakthrough innovations.
The seven-line course zigzags down to a base camp, where Backcountry Adventures provides lunch and a chance to cool down in a nearby fresh-water swimming hole.
Weighing in as the 15th most important tool is the scale, a device that provides the base for commerce and coinage.
Connectivity comes via Gigabit Ethernet and a WiFi dongle roughly the size of a wireless mouse receiver protruding from its base, and a 5V socket provides Transporter with power.
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Its E-Plus provides cellular phone service to a customer base of 1.7 million, growing by 70, 000 new customers a month.
Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals.
Apple also provides a setting in the Airport Extreme software that let us diminish the base station's transmitting power should we want to restrict the range of transmission to, say, a conference room for security reasons.
Leap provides innovative, high-value wireless services to a young and ethnically diverse customer base.
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After 20 years in the service, retirees are entitled to a pension worth half their base pay and low-cost health insurance, but that rarely provides enough compensation for most to stop working.
Founded in 2004, Ooma offers a consumer electronics device that provides free, U.S. telephone calling and advanced telephony services to its global base of customers.
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