In Bangladesh's case, major factories became overbooked and so subcontracted more work to smaller outfits.
Yes, capital expenditure outlays are growing nicely, but proportionately the big boosts have come from smaller outfits.
In 2001, for example, the company acquired 18 smaller outfits, thus adding 15 operating centers to its roster.
He spent the 1990s turning US Filter into the world's largest water company by acquiring hundreds of smaller outfits.
Smaller outfits seldom have much of a cushion to buy extra feed, and Texas had a nasty drought last summer, too.
Big mining companies grew bolder and new smaller outfits were started up.
Smaller outfits are likely to disappear altogether, says Richard Evans, managing director of The Watch Security, which was acquired recently by a bigger fish.
Smaller outfits like Chevron and Texaco are still playing catch-up.
The giants like Siemens, BP, ExxonMobil have staked a claim on cold-ironing but then so have smaller outfits like TEMCO, Cavotec, Wittmar (CleanAir Marine Power) and Cochran.
One criticism is that being first-to-file gives big and sophisticated organisations, highly experienced at the difficult job of filing for patents, an advantage over smaller outfits that may be technically brilliant but not legally savvy.
Within the industry Adelman prefers the large established players, which thus far have beaten back an assault by smaller discount outfits (see FORBES, Feb. 28).
Some folks claim they get more personal attention and better strategic advice from smaller venture capital outfits.
Maybe subprime lending belongs in the hands of smaller, specialty outfits, rather than being turbocharged by Wall Street.
Kampen gobbled up smaller specialty chemical outfits using the ample cash generated by Octel Associates, a British gasoline lead-additive business.
The government has had some success in dismantling some of the prominent kidnap gangs, but smaller, amateurish outfits have proliferated.
So have smaller and less expected outfits, including Adobe and companies leveraging predictive open source software.
Wyeth-Ayerst, Abbott Laboratories, Merck, SmithKline Beecham and Pfizer have invested heavily in the field, either on their own or by buying or teaming up with smaller, entrepreneurial research outfits.
Some industry observers have said that Big Pharma firms should try to more actively license drugs from smaller companies and biotech outfits in order to fill out their pipelines of experimental drugs.
In the cellular arena the future is less promising: HKT has been losing market share to SmarTone and Hutchison -- the two other major players -- and is being squeezed by smaller, nimbler wireless outfits like Sunday as well.
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Several outfits at the show offered products enabling construction of cubesat and even smaller satellite products including Celestial Circuits, JP Aerospace and Kentucky Space.
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