Sentences with phrase «by larger competitor»

So, on the one hand, such a company isn't worth any more than the proverbial pound... but to an investor familiar with the sector, operating margins of 20 - 25 % + are entirely possible, given a larger revenue base or takeover by a larger competitor.

Among the listed risks is, «The possible introduction of integrated products by our larger competitors that offer inspection and metrology functionality in addition to managing other semiconductor manufacturing processes.»

However, while data storage is somewhat commoditized, the services rendered by the larger competitors in the space vary heavily.

Several large companies are missing from the show floor, having been gobbled up by larger competitors.

Not exact matches

Your small business stands out during the holidays by offering greater flexibility and better customer service, as well as by offering unique products and services that shoppers might not find at your larger competitors.

By being more flexible and adaptable than your larger competitors, you have a chance to build your brand's reputation and customer trust.

Disruptive early entrants often succeed because their larger, in - market competitors may be unwilling to immediately cannibalize existing businesses and / or may be constrained by legal or regulatory considerations (think AirBnb or Uber) or by other reasons such as concerns for near - term financial results.

But it's also the case that large, established providers can design and develop aggregated solutions that are right in their wheelhouse and then help to amortize and distribute some of their own investment by licensing or otherwise making these tools available to others in the marketplace — including many of their own customers and even in some instances competitors.

In the first decade of the century, the large integrated oil companies traded at an average discount of between 11 % and 12 % compared to their pure - play competitors, according to a study conducted at the time by Citi Investment Research and Analysis.

Marathon Petroleum has announced it will buy competitor Andeavor in a $ 23.3 billion deal that will create the largest independent oil refiner by capacity in the U.S., surpassing the established leader Valero Energy.

When tracked and tweaked properly, social media can give your startup the marketing muscle it needs to keep up with — and maybe even eclipse — large competitors, says Nichole Kelly, chief executive of Social Media Explorer and author of How to Measure Social Media: A Step - By - Step Guide to Developing and Assessing Social Media ROI (Que Publishing, 2012).

«I don't see a positive path to large - scale growth for Apple aside from the App Store, and that success was partly created by China's government decapitating their competitor,» says Lyons.

The 5G plan announced on Tuesday by the third - largest wireless carrier stands in start contrast to the emphasis from bigger competitors Verizon (vz) and AT&T, which are both running trials for fixed wireless Internet service using 5G to serve homes and businesses.

Steal a page from large competitors» business plans and you could boost revenues by hosting book - related events and reading groups, or launching a used - book Web site.

Offering the extra large size also protects Tim Hortons from losing customers to newly aggressive competitors like McDonald's, which has targeted the coffee market by expanding its McCafé line.

Recently several large banks tested a trading system built by a competitor to Digital Asset Holdings called R3, that used Ethereum's block chain technology.

Our in - house ethics blogger (he really does go by @ethicsblogger) Chris MacDonald turned a moment of personal frustration with Keurig's new «2.0» single - cup coffee - brewing system into a larger point about the obligations companies have to serve their best customers, instead of trying to block competitors.

The Doha - based airline is one of those affected by a U.S. ban on large carry - on electronics, putting it at a passenger - experience disadvantage against competitors unaffected by the ban.

Bizzabo's main competitor is Cvent, which is now the world's largest event management software after it was acquired and merged with Lanyon by Vista Equity Partners for $ 1.65 billion last year.

... That combined with the promotional environment that had our two key competitors at one of our largest and best accounts [cut prices by] 40 and 50 percent off respectively.»

We are Dell's 8th largest partner and a member of their PartnerDirect Premier program, which allows us to offer the products and solutions that our customers want, build credibility in the industry, differentiate ourselves based on service offerings, and grow our businesses to heights unmatched by our competitors.

As sensors become smaller and easier to use, Dexcom and its competitors are betting that the systems will be adopted by the much larger group of people with Type 2 diabetes, which is typically controlled with medications, diet and exercise.

Other players in the oil and gas space, although not direct competitors of Conoco, are also larger by annual revenue.

It's another example of large corporations looking to buy their way into innovation — before they're overwhelmed by a potential new generation of competitors.

Competitors have trouble growing as large because their prices are constantly undercut by this larger, earlier - moving company.

Accurate Box has been heavily investing in its facility for more than two decades now while many of its competitors have been gobbled up by larger players in a consolidating industry.

Chobani accomplishes this by being transparent about its sourcing and production, going into much more detail about its processes on its website than its large competitors.

For the past three years Paul has headed the largest division of Accolade Wines, the UK and Ireland region, where the business is the number one wine company by value and volume, more than double the size of its nearest competitor.

Hardys also boosts the largest market share held by one brand in the UK at 5.7 %, which is now 30 % larger than the next nearest competitor *.

From large multinationals with a presence in all markets that want to launch a special container on the market each year to distinguish themselves from their competitors, to SMEs that want to give added value to their product by means of metal packaging and in more reduced quantities.

Bryan claimed he was not the weak link of Team Hell No, and set about proving this by destroying every single competitor he met up with, most notably Randy Orton, who has a larger part to play later in Bryan's story.

In another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidies.

They found both models showed a general feeding structure throughout the plankton food web: The smallest organisms were too small to ingest prey, while the largest plankton were poor competitors when living by photosynthesis.

Awhile ago, I read the research you have posted and saw that the research conducted by Texas A&M University, but was funded by AlzChem AG, which is one of the largest producing manufactures for creatine monohydrate, thus competitor of buffered creatine.

Shareholders of China's largest dating site, Jiayuan, have accepted the recent merger offer put forward by its main competitor Baihe.

On the hardware side, it's the Nintendo 3DS that's giving competitors the business, outselling the PSP by an atypically large margin.

I confess it seems more than a touch unfair that while its primary competitors, Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln, have both been dogged by questions of historical accuracy, no one seems to care that large portions of Argo — in particular the last act, featuring skin - of - the - teeth escape after skin - of - the - teeth escape — were made up out of whole cloth.

We found that large international NGOs and humanitarian organizations feel that their expertise and experience was going unrecognized and unappreciated by government actors, and that government actors sometimes view NGOs as competitors who were undermining their efforts to get as many children as possible into public schools.

Public unions have been exempt in large measure from these global changes, given that public education is run by a dominant firm — one with the lion's share of the market that its small fringe competitors can not displace.

Its next largest competitor is Baltimore - based Connections Education, which was recently acquired by Pearson, the mammoth British textbook publisher.

Furthermore, even in a highly competitive and free education marketplace, variation in student achievement between schools wouldn't necessarily be very large, since the very best schools would be emulated by many of their competitors, and the very worst schools would go out of business.

The familiar 2.0 - liter turbocharged four - cylinder can't quite match the output or refinement of its larger - displacement competitors, but it's nonetheless smooth and potent and offers the fuel economy benefits one would expect of a smaller engine (better than the BMW by a combined 3 mpg, and better than the Cadillac by 2 mpg).

It is larger than its closest competitor in the market, the Land Rover Range Rover, which is considered very large by European standards.

Instead of having to conform to a thick booklet of rules set out by the FIA, the CRC allows competitors to enter larger, 2 - litre engine'd cars with bigger, 35 mm restrictors, wearing aero - kits and bodywork that would send scrutineers into a tape - measure based frenzy at a WRC event.

Competitors include the BMW 128 convertible (which will be replaced by the 2 Series for 2014), the smaller Mini Cooper S Convertible and the larger Lexus IS 250 C; compare them here.

It manages to hide in plain sight the overly large grilles being used by many competitors and is actually unobtrusively present here.

The Mondeo faced similar issues in Australia, as it was hampered by stiff competition from Japanese competitors in an already limited medium - sized market while its high price drove prospective customers to the larger and better equipped Ford Falcon.

Once a competitor to the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry, the 2013 Ford Taurus now plays in a class occupied by larger, more luxurious cars like the Toyota Avalon and Chrysler 300.

The Sonata is classified by the EPA as a large car, and has more passenger room than most of its competitors, while it has significantly more trunk space than the Toyota Camry, Nissan Altima, Ford Fusion and Chevrolet Malibu.

Early models had a 2.0 - liter four - cylinder engine with 148 hp; it came up short compared to the larger four - and six - cylinder engines offered by competitors.