The new owners called in Mr Perraudin and Jan Kantowsky of Alix Partners, a restructuring firm, who quickly drew up plans to widen the product range and to start selling online.

新所有者委任了佩罗丹和阿利克斯伙伴(Alix Partners)重组公司的杨·坎妥斯基(Jan Kantowsky)。他们很快制定了拓宽产品范围和网上销售的计划。

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Instead of designing a completely new product to fit a certain price range, large scale manufacturing dictates that it is often cheaper to simply "cripple" an existing high-end product.

与其设计一个全新的产品去适应某一价格区间，大多数制造商会决定使用一个成本更低的方式，简单的“削减”一下现有高端产品的功能。

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However, bankers say that the biggest obstacle to expansion is finding enough quality staff to operate new branches and serve customers with a wider product range.

然而，银行家们表示，外资银行扩张的最大障碍，是寻找高素质员工来运营新的分支机构，并为客户提供品种更丰富的产品。

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Seddon Atkinson is making a new product range that it had hoped to sell across Europe and thus build up its scale of operation.

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Lower average selling prices (ASPs), a wide range of new product offerings, and increased holiday spending all acted as catalysts to push the already climbing tablet market to record levels.

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Possible new product announcements range from its own smartphone to a new search engine to some sort of new streaming service, according to techiebuzzie.com.

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