If a small product footprint was desired, consumers often had to forgo many features.
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That's not surprising, because Aleve is a small product that has been sold over the counter for about two decades.
Amgen is apparently hoping his expertise could help things get rolling on the compound, which would probably be a relatively small product.
Pepsi has small product-development teams that come up with new ideas and perform consumer testing, independent of brand managers overseeing established products.
The medical device industry employs more than 400, 000 people in 12, 000 factories across the country, often small, entrepreneurial firms with a small product line.
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To appeal to more health-conscious Americans, Hostess launched a line of whole-grain breads called Nature's Pride that the company says has been selling well, but it is a small product line compared with rival offerings.
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Answer: 100% focused on residences now, but a small business product will be coming soon.
Archos' approach of using a hard drive may turn out to be an interesting advantage in a small-product niche.
It is easy to think of Michael Jordan and Nike as an example but even New York Mets third baseman, David Wright, scored multimillion dollar windfall when Coca-Cola purchased Vitamin Water, which had given Wright equity in exchange for endorsing the beverage, then a small local product made just down the road from Shea Stadium.
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Social innovation brings to the surface thousands of small but important product improvements as well as disruptive innovations that can bring meaningful change the business or an entire industry.
The year 2010 will also see vehicle breakthroughs, like the plug-in Chevrolet Volt and the Chevy Cruze, a zippy, fuel-efficient compact that will usher in a new era of global efficiency in small-car product development.
When Intuit developed its small business accounting software package, the product developers realized that most small business owners were not familiar with accounting jargon, and in fact were intimidated by it.
We will continue to work together with small businesses in all product categories to lower prices for customers.
This contributes no profit on the first visit unless the marginal cost is very small or the discounted product pulls through other profitable sales.
"This is classic disruptive innovation, where the mainstream dismisses the product and small companies have time to create a real differentiated value, " says Staten.
Despite bearing a resemblance to Apple's iPod -- both in shape and size -- Sim said the company had purposefully avoided making the product too small.
As plastic is a petroleum based product these small particles act as persistent organic polluters, which means that they form a sponge attracting toxins such as insecticides and pesticides.
This means it's more interesting to watch than the regular FDM printing, as every few moments a laser "show" hits the pool of resin, and another small part of the product emerges.
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The system is a product of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010.
Still, relatively small changes can transform a product and help open new markets for Unilever.
Their goal is to make Insight's product available to small and mid-sized businesses anywhere on the continent.
Another chart shows that whenever money-supply growth has exceeded gross domestic product growth, small-caps tend to rise.
One of the most intriguing alternatives is Swiftkey an intelligent text prediction product from a small British company called Touchtype.
Some patients appear to respond with improved cognitive functioning, the company found in two, small clinical trials comparing their product with placebo.
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Stopping in at small stores, he witnesses product placement firsthand and seeks to understand the cultural context in which people buy WD-40 products.
The economics of the vaccine industry, he points out, are much like those of software: the marginal cost of each new product is very small.
An engineer, he joined the company in 1978 and got the top job three years ago after helping to mastermind strategies to expand HD's product range by small acquisitions.
With a hotspot directory and promotional offer on T-Mobile Hotspot access, Sony put in a good effort to move beyind the product's small frame, but the price could be a bit friendlier and Bluetooth and AIM support are two key missing features.
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There are other clinical studies of Souvenaid going on of 500 participants each, and the company plans to do an "early experience program" of selling the product in a small geographic area in the United States, having it available in pharmacies, he said.
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