They have matchless brand-names and country-wide sales networks, which foreigners will not find easy to replicate.
In particular, the small shops simply lack the sales networks developed over decades by the big shops.
The rest of high-saving Asia will slowly begin to join them as global fund-management houses cobble together their sales networks.
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And, like many direct-sales companies, Tupperware has been able to spur growth by giving financial incentives to the reps who build the largest sales networks.
It is selling insurance direct to customers, for instance, rather than using the typical approach of having sales ladies going door to door or setting up costly sales networks.
In this way, the clean energy space may more resemble the biotech space where biotechnology start-ups are routinely acquired by the large pharmaceuticals firms that have the distribution and sales networks necessary to bring new drugs to market at scale.
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Beckhoff builds its own sales and maintenance networks, relying little on dealers unlike some of its non-German competitors.
Based on that initial box office take, number crunchers across Los Angeles have long predicted how much the film will make in theaters, on DVD and in sales to television networks and passenger airlines.
While the ad sales for the broadcasting networks will decline by 2%, cable networks will see a growth of 5% in their ad related revenues.
Cable networks led sales growth.
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Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks currently estimates that Nokia Siemens Networks net sales in the fourth quarter 2012 were approximately EUR 4.0 billion and the non-IFRS operating margin was between 13 and 15 percent, which compares to the previous outlook of approximately positive 8 percent, plus or minus four percentage points.
When it comes to more advanced strategies that incorporate multiple pages on multiple networks managed by multiple stakeholders (imagine an entire sales team of 6, 000 relationship managers mobilized on social networks), the potential for risk increases exponentially without proper policies and processes.
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Another major ad-buying company suggested that ad sales could be flat at broadcast networks and higher at cable networks.
Prior to Microsoft, he was Chief Operating Officer at Juniper Networks, headed global sales for Adobe Systems Inc and was CEO of Macromedia Inc.
It aims to help provide Scottish food and drink companies with the resources, knowledge and networks to develop significant sales in the Asia Pacific region.
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Additionally, the competition does not have the infrastructure a rapidly growing nationwide sales force, inclusion in ad buyer networks, reseller agreements, etc.
In other areas of the company, its telecoms equipment venture, Nokia Siemens Networks, reported a fall in sales.
After the presentations, the TV networks step up their ad-sales negotiations, trying to win commitments for the bulk of the new TV season's ad time.
Eventbrite, which allows people to set up pages to promote their events and sell tickets, just released a report titled Social Commerce that takes a look over the past 12 weeks at how social networks are driving traffic or ticket sales to the site.
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Sales growth is down, new systems for local networks may help.
If I had to make a prediction, I think that sales are going to be slightly depressed where 4G networks are limited or not available, which is good news for US consumers because the efforts to keep the iPhone 5 in stock will have a larger pool of devices to draw from.
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Trust companies lack similar networks and are heavily reliant on banks for sales.
In the first three months of its financial year, News Corp profits more than doubled and sales rose 12%, reflecting improvements at its cable networks.
Visits to its theme parks are expected to fall in step with a decline in U.S. consumer confidence, offsetting advertising sales growth at Disney's ESPN and ABC television networks.
Today smart companies can begin moving toward discontinuing internal networks for things like storing, retrieving and printing sales documents.
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Semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments Monday reported better than expected quarterly earnings and revenues, despite sharply lower sales of the baseband processors used to connect handsets to wireless networks.
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He thinks further downside is limited with news flow increasing on carrier roll out of LTE networks, which theoretically should trigger a boost in sales of 4G wireless modems.
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Apparel was the biggest winner: shoppers referred to online stores through social networks generated a 2.2 percent of all sales in August, an increase of more than 113 percent over 2011.
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Best Buy's strong results for the three months ended Aug. 28 were due to tight expense controls, increased sales of cellphones and services such as connecting televisions with home networks, and a stock repurchase program that reduced total shares outstanding.
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