China overtook India as the world's top consumer of gold in the first quarter, the World Gold Council said.
American Electric Power is the nation's top consumer of coal, and we have factored climate issues into our business decisions for almost a decade.
After the U.S. and China, Japan is a top consumer with 4.4 million barrels a day, followed by India (3.1 million) and Russia (3 million).
Not only was it the top consumer item searched for, it was the time item overall, beating out the tragic Japanese earthquake and even Kim Kardashian.
Group firm CG Foods' Wai Wai, a popular brand of instant brown noodles, was ranked as Nepal's top consumer brand by research firm acnielsen last year.
Top consumer experts back the standards, saying not only that American drivers will benefit financially from more fuel-efficient cars, but also that they want and will buy these higher mileage cars, trucks and SUVs.
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American Electric Power (nyse: AEP - news - people ) is the nation's top consumer of coal, and we have factored climate issues into our business decisions for almost a decade.
Russia is one of the world's biggest energy producers, and China is the world's top energy consumer.
Several top European consumer brands, most notably Audi, have signed as sponsors.
To test our theory, we analyzed the holdings and allocations for the top 6 Consumer staples ETFs (listed below) by market cap according to Marco Polo XTF.
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Then then there is brand strength: the Apple brand is surely one of the top five global consumer brands today.
Skyfire has honed its technology through a variety of top-selling consumer applications, which have more than 20 million worldwide downloads to date.
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Although the top eight established consumer-finance companies control roughly 80% of the market, their reputations have been hurt by scandals over aggressive collection methods and outrageous interest rates.
"The Love Bug is a warning to us all that security must be given top priority if consumer and user confidence is to be maintained as we move into the information age, " IT commissioner Erkki Liikanen said.
On top of that, consumer prices declined in April and May as did profits at state firms and the generation of electricity.
For instance, in the LVOL, the top sector exposure is consumer staples at 22%, health care at 17% and utilities at 16%.
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That means that the camera can be used with set-top boxes and other consumer electronic devices to provide the kind of functionality that Kinect does through the Xbox.
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MakerBot was listed this week as one of tech blog Fast Company' s top 10 most innovative consumer tech companies with the likes of Apple, Samsung and Google.
"Because mobility is a top priority of the consumer, we co-developed an offering that provides a terrific wireless, entertainment and communications experience in one spot, " said Jonathan LeCompte, president, Verizon Wireless Georgia-Alabama Region.
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So he bought in, adding the top picks to both his Consumer Discretionary Fund and the Core Equity Fund.
The Nasdaq Composite did the best of the major averages gaining 1.1% with Consumer Discretionary the top sector, up 3%.
Sales both at the top and bottom of the consumer market are rapidly growing while sales are being squeezed hard in the middle, though it is still the largest market segment in rich countries.
In terms of fashion and accessories, major brands have had to become more conscious of increasing consumer sophistication in top-tier cities by boosting the quality and selection of products offered while taking account of the fact that a significant number Chinese consumers of a certain income level often prefer to purchase luxury goods outside the mainland to sidestep high luxury taxes.
The health care revolution will be both bottom-up (consumer led) and top-down (provider led).
Areas of concern: Several areas have been under pressures, he says: consumer, set-top-box, public sector, switching.
When it comes to consumer reviews, no top-100 retailer can boast the positive sentiment of CVS Caremark and Walgreen Co.
British experts, tasting an array of expensive bottled waters for a consumer magazine, awarded top marks to a humble sample of tap water from Thames Water, a less-than-fashionable utility.
In an example of that, shares of international luxury-brand apparel and accessories retailer Michael Kors (KORS) is the top performer this year in the consumer cyclicals sector as tracked by Morningstar, with a 79% return.
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