One sunny afternoon my entire inventory was bought out by a single customer: Cher.
Its largest single customer is Nokia (NOK), which was responsible for 20% of 2009 revenues.
In these smaller, quieter private communities, the voice of a single customer can be heard.
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Four Veritas engineers once spent six months working part-time to track a bug affecting a single customer.
In addition to competition, reliance on a single customer can increase risk.
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After a long night of asking every single customer where he found out about Pizza Delicious, not one said it was through Facebook.
But as promising as EDS' transformation idea sounds, it has yet to sell it to a single customer on the whole new package.
The existing work rules require that, on many routes, separate trucks must deliver the bread and cake products to that single customer location.
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No single customer represented more than 10% of those sales--meaning Merck could well be the largest consumer of DNA chips in the world.
For starters, a company should look to diversify its customer base and make sure no single customer accounts for more than 20% of revenues.
Even if Apple did not lose a single customer, its market share would still decline as Amazon increases the overall size of the market.
Instead, the company wants to create a content platform strategy that ties together all of its ragtag content and app experiences into a single customer relationship.
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Normally such a heavy dependence on a single customer could be a negative, but not in this case argues Cramer, as Apple continues to produce must have products one after another.
These companies, and many like them, have made a habit (even a company policy) of making sure that every single customer receives outstanding service, and of developing lasting relationships at every turn.
They have not gained business: tellers are under pressure to serve a queue rather than chatting to a single customer, and in any case the appropriate salespeople are rarely at the ready.
Given that Apple has historically been by far the largest single customer for MFLEX, the weak results hint that recent supply chatter about reduced iPhone production activity could be right on the mark.
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Why should an industry sitting on so much cash remain dependent on the whims of a single customer whose interest is clearly flagging when it possesses so many skills relevant to the commercial marketplace?
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Servers often use special virtualized software allowing data from multiple companies to be stored on one server or processor (an analogy would be instead of a cabinet containing files from a single customer, it holds files from numerous clients).
Cohan couldn't produce a single satisfied customer for FORBES, and we were unable to prove or disprove his many claims.
The short term value of handset sales and the profit from a single new customer is not necessarily their ultimate goal.
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This has its own problems, as firms do not like to be dependent on a single big customer with notoriously fickle demands.
Apple, once Lee's single largest customer, recently dumped him.
It encourages even its closest suppliers to diversify away from an unhealthy dependence on a single, big customer.
Not that long ago AMD blew a tentative deal to supply processors to the single most attractive customer in the device market: Apple.
So why not channel the relevant data streams into a single source of valuable customer data?
When the center opened in 1999, the first customer was a single-person startup, LAD Industries, which wanted to improve abdominal and lower-back training on workout machines.
Retailers in Australia and the UK have followed suit, limiting the number of cans of formula that can be sold to a customer within a single day.
The boss in the made-to-order containers company I told you about last week shared what he had learned from a customer with every single individual who worked in the plant.
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This gets beyond a 360 degree view of the customer to creating a single system of engagement corporate-wide.
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