Ty Warner was criticized when he began to market his small-sized, understuffed beanbag animals.
There is a good idea for building a broader stock market, bringing in millions of new, small-sized investors.
Geographically small-sized anomalies (both hot and cold) of major proportions show up every year, and 2012 picked on us.
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Small-sized airlines are dropping out of the skies as record oil prices take their toll, giving British Airways a choice opportunity to boost its own tiny transatlantic venture.
Ostensibly, high-profile and high-risk companies may appear to be at greater risk, but small-to-medium sized businesses are not immune.
Italy is mired in recession, with a massive debt burden, and needs to get investment flowing again to hard-hit small and medium-sized businesses.
The meat and potatoes of this bond recommendation are that the new slimmed down, post-bankruptcy CIT is lending to small- and medium-sized businesses.
While SuccessFactors and Taleo (Nasdaq:TLEO) have done a bang-up job for enterprise HCM, Flip sees an even bigger opportunity for small- and medium-sized businesses.
"Consumers are now split between the small pocket-sized devices with 5-inch or 6-inch screens and the larger screen 8-inch to 10-inch screen readers, " says Epps.
KBB.com dug through the myriad offers in popular categories to come up with the best purchase and lease deals available on well-equipped small and mid-sized cars and crossovers.
On Monday, it made an attempt to penetrate into another key market, releasing software co-developed with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) for small- and medium-sized businesses.
With long-term investment horizons, life insurance companies in developed economies are important investors in the stock market, as well as in the private placement markets for debt and equity securities issued by small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Instead of just focusing on big name British companies to sign big ticket deals, Mr Cameron has brought with him 30-odd small- and medium-sized firms in the hope that they can inculcate a new generation of trade and entrepreneurial links with India.
Yet there is much to suggest that Germany will fare worse than most in the slump and that its pain will be felt most acutely by its famed Mittelstand, the thousands of family-owned small and medium-sized firms that are the backbone of its economy.
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The sales-minded executive Tuesday announced he was dissolving an HP group responsible for sales to small- and medium-sized businesses to give HP's salespeople more direct customer contact, and stressed that HP would work only with partners that made it a point to champion HP products.
While Hon Hai is getting the rosy side of the deal for Sharp's TV-oriented Sakai plant, it's now thought to be paying Sharp for display technology that would go into a new factory in Chengdu for small- and medium-sized LCDs used for smartphones and tablets.
One of the cornerstones of his programme is a promise to hand out low or zero-interest credits to small and medium-sized companies.
Cisco has also announced the acquisition of Meraki, a smaller networking firm that provides multiple cloud-based services to small and mid-sized companies.
Even before the debate began, government economists had been studying measures such as allowing more self-employment and private or co-operative ownership of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as reforming land tenure and freeing agricultural markets.
He had a sit down with Peter Lorenz, the now-corporate officer who oversees small and medium-sized business products.
Alternative lending is popular in China because state-owned banks tend to favour large companies, particularly state-owned enterprises, leaving small and medium-sized companies starved of credit.
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He says he wants an open, export-oriented economy, kind to small and medium-sized entrepreneurs.
According to the government's small and medium-sized enterprise agency, 65% of small Japanese firms thought of themselves as subcontractors to bigger ones in 1981.
SanDisk's new distribution channel addresses a wider portion of the market by delivering high-quality SanDisk SSD technology to small and medium-sized businesses, a growing market segment for SSDs.
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"The No. 1 reason why businesses fail is because they run out of cash, " says Mary Goodman, president of Bottom Line Up Enterprises, an Arizona-based business consulting firm for small and mid-sized firms.
SMErobot, a European Union-backed initiative to develop robots for small and medium-sized companies.
The ONS includes internet-only sales and has much wider coverage of small and medium-sized businesses.
The government has also promised to continue with its supply-side reforms, such as cutting red tape for small and medium-sized firms.
Rather than proposing a few more big nuclear reactors, the start-ups are advocating many small nuclear reactors, variously called small, right-sized or modular.
By contrast, Apotheker seems to be focusing on the creation of higher-value services that the company can offer large companies, small and mid-sized businesses, and consumers.
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