Today about a third of industry sales is outsourced, a ratio that will continue to rise, he predicts.
The third big industry trend is arguably the most promising of them all.
Cott's gross margin of 12.4% last year was about a third the industry average, while Coke and Pepsi both registered over 50%.
That points to the third big industry-wide trend: global integration.
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The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has estimated that one third of private industry activities is exposed to weather-related risks.
"One-third of the industry is gone, and it's gone forever, " says Jay Baron of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor.
The 10% employee attrition rate is a third of the industry average.
"One-third of the industry is gone, and it's gone forever, " says Jay Baron of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Third, the industry does not generally offer value-for-money products, but rather an array of proliferating instruments that are difficult to compare and understand.
Sprint is third in the industry with about 53 million subscribers vs. more than 100 million each for the dominant two, T and VZ.
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Third, the industry can handle variations within 5% of supply or even the 10% (from all renewable sources) that is the government's target for 2010.
Third, the industry will have to win over utilities and communities.
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By our count, about three-quarters of US biodiesel producers have annual capacities of 20 million gallons or less, comprising about a third of total industry capacity.
In this summer's World Cup, around a third of the industry's turnover came from foreign punters placing bets with British bookies, with much of this coming from rich Asian football fans.
Third, the industry should carefully evaluate its business model.
Third, the industry needs to continue to make good faith efforts to reduce adverse impacts across the board, in terms of water pollution, health and safety, noise, erosion, road damage and so on.
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There are many ways we could have helped the poor secure basic health coverage (e.g. through vouchers) without destroying the entire industry with third-party payer systems.
It's home to the world's third-largest film industry and serves as a breeding ground for Canto-pop, a treacly transmogrification of Western pop-rock that can leave the listener feeling rather like a glazed donut -- coated in sugar but with a big hole in the middle.
Third, the financial industry, and the major investment houses, in particular, are facing reputation issues that take time to repair, especially in the face new issues like the LIBOR scandal just take a look at Nomura Holdings (NYSE:NMR) and Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU), which trade at a fraction of their 1989 all time highs.
Bangladesh's garment industry was the third-largest in the world in 2011, after China and Italy.
Cash for Clunkers, an unsustainable government gift to the auto industry, goosed third-quarter growth numbers.
Third party, non-industry studies show that job boards are the second highest source of hires for employers.
Third, the clean technology industry is likely to be a multi trillion dollar industry on the global level.
The EU's fishing industry is the third largest in the world, and quotas have been in place to ensure sustainability.
Last month, the STB commissioned a study of competition in the freight rail industry by a third-party research firm, Wisconsin-based Christensen Associates.
Toshiba, the third largest player in the industry, announced its margins on its disk drive business will be cut in half this year.
Among the options most favoured by the industry are a third runway at Heathrow, a new runway at Stansted or the so called Boris Island hub airport off the Essex coast.
The survey results indicated that 70 percent of chemicals companies surveyed claim the ability to proactively manage spot shortages or oversupplies in their system, but this, of course, means that nearly one-third of companies in the industry are merely reactive, responding to supply imbalances as they occur.
Exxon Mobil, Chevon and ConocoPhillips are the second-, third- and fourth-largest companies in the Fortune 500, respectively, and the energy industry as a whole is the third-largest in the United States.
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