Sentences with phrase «as a commodity product»

Many are normally turned into meat, blood and bone meals used as commodity products or as components in animal feed.

Gates and pens tend to be viewed as commodity products without much differentiation.

Finally, some of these canine containment systems tend to be viewed as commodity products.

Not exact matches

Canada's exports to China — and more broadly, Asia — have long been concentrated in commodities such as coal, metals, agricultural, and forestry products, with very few exports of consumer and commercial goods and services.

Food makers such as Kraft and Mondelez have reported soft volume as they've boosted the prices of their products to help offset the higher commodity costs.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

At its Ludwigshafen headquarters and at five other hubs abroad, BASF runs close - knit networks of chemical reactors that churn out products as diverse as basic commodities, coatings, vitamins, drug ingredients and engineering plastics.

It is peddling high - end clothes with Pepsi influences, and it is attempting to rebrand even its commodity products, such as Lay's chips, as cool.

Its Wholesale Banking segment offers commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset - based lending, equipment leasing, international trade facilities, trade financing, collection, foreign exchange, treasury management, merchant payment processing, institutional fixed - income sales, commodity and equity risk management, corporate trust fiduciary and agency, and investment banking services, as well as online / electronic products.

Previously within GEBS, he served as a portfolio manager and product specialist for US equity strategies and synthetic beta strategies, including commodities, buy / write, and hedge fund replication.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

Demand for jet fuel has increased over the last two years as the global economy has strengthened and airplane passenger traffic has risen, said Sandy Fielden, director of oil and products research at Morningstar Commodities in Austin, Texas.

Previously most of online shopping had focused on selling commodity products, so we set out to build the Internet's first major lifestyle shopping brand, centered around design as a lifestyle.

In economics, a commodity is defined as a tangible good that can be bought and sold or exchanged for products of similar value.

A key plank of Dow's defense is that the company benefits from an integrated supply chain, with commodity petrochemicals often serving as building blocks for higher - margin specialty products.

This could be positive for a commodity price (such as in Oil), as the increased economic activity will likely lead to greater sales of energy products.

The drop in value, though detrimental to consumers purchasing imported products, has also been touted as an opportunity for Canadian businesses doing business with the U.S., from commodities exporters to the tourist industry.

Canada's Agriculture Minister responded to the situation by threatening its own punitive duties on products such as ketchup and California wine, among 38 other commodities listed.

It is with this in mind that the creators of this software decided to single it out as their only product and named their system with this precious commodity's name.

I have been nibbling on this stock for the past few months as it too had a difficult 2015 with falling commodity prices hurting ethanol sales, along with a strong dollar and weakened overseas economies reducing demand for ADM products.

2015 has been a rough year for this heavy machinery company as weakened economies in Asia and Europe saw less demand for CAT products as well as depressed commodity prices affecting sales as mining activity has been curbed.

Commodity CFDs are over-the-counter products with a price established by Saxo Bank as the Futures market spread plus a fixed mark - up.

The trade decisions facing Trump in the next several weeks encompass a range of U.S. complaints: the dumping in U.S. markets of Chinese products such as solar panels, the theft of intellectual property and trade secrets, and economic damage caused by excess Chinese production in key commodities such as steel.

All futures and options on futures trading - which includes such product areas as short - term interest rate and swap products, bonds, equity options, stock indexes, commodity and FX instruments - are transacted on a single electronic trading platform, LIFFE CONNECT, with central margining and clearing provided by ICE Clear Europe.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

This was the only commodity Frost and Eliot were capable of producing: the modernist phenomenon as product, mass culture's ultimate revenge on those who would scorn it.»

One of the significant effects of this lies in the commercial process of commoditisation, where non-commercial, social activities are reformed, packaged and sold as commercial products or commodities.

During the T'ang dynasty (ended 295; A.D. 907) and the Sung dynasty (349 - 678; A.D. 960-1279) foreign trade grew steadily as Arabs and Iranians took silk, art objects, Chinese porcelain, and other commodities to the Middle East and to Europe, returning with herbs, spices, pearls, and other products of those areas.

The idea is to «approach God as a commodity» and to understand that religious believers are «consumers» rationally calculating their «investment» in a «product» such as salvation supplied by «entrepreneurs» who establish religious «firms.»

A commodity is therefore a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of man's labor appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labor; because the relation of the producers to the sum total of their own labor is presented to them as a social relation, existing not between themselves, but between the products of their labor.

This I call Fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labor, as soon as they are produced as commodities, and which is therefore inseparable from the production of commodities.25

On genetically enhancing a child's IQ or physical strength, he comments: «Enhancement could be seen as an act of love and concern, rather than a narcissistic effort to make the child a product or commodity.»

«They are challenged with rising commodity costs and flat - to - declining traffic as consumers are choosing to eat out less frequently in tough economic times, so we work closely with our customers on new product ideas and limited time offers.»

«We think product quality looks good for this year, but as with any agriculture commodity we must always look for ways we can increase sales and still be profitable.»

«As we switch from a commodity - based industry to a consumer - based product, I think we're in a good position to make that transition,» he says.

Porter used the company as an example of how developing countries could market interesting products for consumers worldwide, walking up the value ladder in otherwise boring commodity - based industries.

But for them to operate, we would need bulk wine treated as a pure commodity which means standardizing the product.

The capital will be spent on new plants and upgrades that will help Murray Goulburn shift its sales mix towards «value - add» dairy foods such as cheese and infant nutrition and away from commodity products such as milk powder.

If a commodity has been certified as Non-GMO Project Verified, you'll see the Non-GMO logo on the corresponding Product Page, as well as the Commodity Program Information Sheets found in Vendor Rcommodity has been certified as Non-GMO Project Verified, you'll see the Non-GMO logo on the corresponding Product Page, as well as the Commodity Program Information Sheets found in Vendor RCommodity Program Information Sheets found in Vendor Resources.

«Ingredients as commodities are very volatile and unpredictable so we have been methodically moving away from those commodity markets to more stable higher value added dairy products,» he said.

Making brown boxes once used to be a fairly straightforward endeavor, but as the corrugated industry has evolved from a commodity supplier into a value - added products manufacturer over the last decade, the old notions of what once passed for adequate...

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Dairy products are New Zealand's largest commodity export and lower global prices are putting pressure on the nation's dairy farmers, weighing on the outlook for economic growth and putting dairy sector debt on the Reserve Bank's radar as a growing risk to financial stability.

In Germany individual commodities such as organic milk products had over 10 percent market share and organic baby foods 80 - 90 percent32.

Under this program, in June 2017, ACO tested 96 different certified organic products for pesticides, herbicides, fungicides as well as carried out commodity specific testing.

The food component of the commodity account, which was derived as a balancing item, was used to refer to the total amount of the commodity that was available for human consumption during the year, including of processed products that were derived from the food commodity, and was expressed as primary commodity equivalents.

PETER RYAN: And while changing economic forces are hurting Australian dairy farmers with plunging commodity prices, Gao Yingxin says China can't get enough dairy products and will want more as its demographics continue to change.

As breast milk is considered a precious commodity, there are a number of products available designed to help save and help store milk for nursing mothers.

Americans in the early twentieth century were still becoming acquainted with mass advertising, which was designed to create new needs where none had existed before, such as for mouthwash or deodorant, or to promote products, such as baby food, that responded to and enabled a more fast - paced life brought on by technological innovation.67 With the mass production and advertising of goods, memorable packaging and branding became an essential part of the product, «an integral part of the commodity itself,» as one business executive noted in 1913.68

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