They span the planet, allocating resources as they see fit and competing to win customers.
AMD's attempts to win customers out from under Intel have gotten nastier of late.
It aims to win customers - primarily 16-34-year olds - by offering innovative services not available elsewhere.
Our ability to win customers in this environment is not conflicted with an early business model and technology model.
It is a survival strategy--to find financing, get your products on the shelf, win customers for your service, establish your brand, rise above the noise.
That's not enough to win customers over, of course, so there's always the "one more thing" that Just Mobile tries to throw into all of its products.
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Walgreen is using direct mail, coupons and a marketing barrage to win customers back but realizes consumers during the dispute left for other pharmacies such as CVS (CVS).
Wasson and his management team said Walgreen is using direct mail, coupons and a marketing barrage to win customers back but realizes consumers during the dispute left for other pharmacies such as CVS (CVS).
So cheap have the big, established brokers become that online start-ups such as Kiwoom.com, which opened last month, are struggling to win customers, despite its offer of free trading until the end of June.
Sure, other companies had given away product before to win customers, but the convention was to cast as wide a net as possible rather than to focus on the frequency of exposure to the product.
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Although its hog farms have generated losses in recent years, Mr. Pope argued that controlling pork production from the farm to the packing plant helped it win customers, including restaurants and grocery chains that increasingly are demanding new products such as antibiotic-free pork.
And although they may win over customers, profits may be harder to find.
Kiwi plans to use social media campaigns and face-to-face sales to win over customers and word-of-mouth recommendations from them, Yecke said.
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Energy companies fought with each other to win new customers - and as the battle wore on, the tactics became dirtier.
Does that mean companies with inferior products that deliver a consistently great customer experience can win your customers and dominate your market?
They have no established broking business to lose and the Internet could help them win valuable customers from the full-service brokerage firms.
The moves are part of the Waterloo, Ontario-based company's effort to win back customers opting for more app-friendly iPhones from Apple Inc.
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The Lincoln MKC concept is Lincoln's attempt to show it can win over customers who like their utility vehicles smaller -- a lot smaller.
The overly controlled approach of certain companies who have a Facebook page that reads like a press release or an informational pamphlet, will not win over customers.
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He was fired by his handpicked CEO John Sculley and the board in 1985 and started a rival computing company called NeXT, which struggled to win over customers.
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"We had to win more customers, especially business, " says Jordan.
As Apple's iMac computer - which has a handle but no floppy drive and comes in fruit colors - continues to win new customers, an industry rethink is underway.
Ford is also trying to drive car sales by offering competitive pricing and incentives such as cash rebates and zero-percent financing to win over customers from other competitors such as Toyota.
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Compaq now had more than 30, 000 service consultants and more than 14, 000 salespeople in the field, but most had come from Digital and were finding it tough to win new customers.
Despite several setbacks, the PlayStation Network was relaunched in early June and the company has tried to win back customers with a free games package and an identity-theft protection program.
Ligon built giant car lots, stocked them with whatever was being sold at the big wholesale auctions that take place daily around the country and hoped his friendly sales proposition would win over customers.
Competitors are ready to pounce on any misstep to win away customers, something that will become easier as American and US Airways are forced to give up landing slots on routes they once monopolized.
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By making the seats more attractive, airlines think they can win over customers from other airlines that don't have the same perks, avoid some discounts on business-class fares, or at least prevent fliers from abandoning them for competitors that have upgraded.
Mr. Score still has a long way to go to win back customers such as John Hopper, who says he shopped at a Best Buy store in Dallas on a recent Saturday only because his wife insisted they needed a new printer immediately.
Or to put it another way, the most important thing you can do to win the hearts of your customers is to win the hearts of your employees first.
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