Sentences with phrase «class consumers of»

Richard also has been pressing for liberalization of the regulation of the legal profession, especially in unauthorized practice of law and nonlawyer investment in law firms, as means to better serve middle - class consumers of legal services.

There are 300 million upper - and - middle - class consumers of processed and packaged food in the country, and another 200 million are expected to shift by 2010.

Not exact matches

The first is that emerging economies are expanding rapidly, creating unprecedented growth in a global middle class who are both producers and eager consumers of manufactured goods.

In other words, more than 300 million middle - class consumers with rising disposable incomes are propelling the consumption of China.

The prospect of winning large damages in a class action can be the only way for consumers to find lawyers to take their cases, so a denial of this certification can effectively end some lawsuits.

The company created a huge marketplace and a sophisticated distribution network just in time to serve a generation of Chinese consumers attaining middle - class prosperity.

«These are high - growth markets, Saudi is one of our investment destinations,» he said Wednesday, mentioning a young population, a large and growing consumer base and a growing middle class.

Despite early signs that a fast - food diet is no healthier in Beijing than it is in Boston, consumers who are new to middle - class dining seem less concerned about the health risks of the high - fat, high - sodium fare that many Americans now seek to avoid.

Different executives repeatedly stressed that Yum had a great first half of the year in China and pointed to China's growing consumer class as future potential customers.

Tsai said rising disposable incomes of China «s «over 300 million middle - class consumers» was helping drive the firm's online sales — and would continue.

Though many are drawn to appealing fantasies of endless oil (abiotic or otherwise), breeder nuclear reactors burning plutonium, etc., the awkward reality is that the world does not contain enough oil, gas, lithium, uranium, etc. etc. for another 1.5 billion middle - class consumers, never mind an additional 3 billion.

The network of coding schools found recently that 40 percent of students taking classes offered through the consumer side of the business were having class costs reimbursed by their employers.

They say a ruling that favors Robins would open the door to millions of consumers banding together in class actions to sue them.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

One factor in its favor is the growing and monied class of tech - savvy consumers who are willing to pay for novel, customized experiences — and for whom a standard car off the assembly line may pale next to the thrill of the next newest, shiniest thing.

The next generation of consumers are likely to find themselves unable to purchase in the volumes necessary to preserve a middle class lifestyle.

«Chinese companies are still trying to answer the question of «How are we going to satisfy the demands of the growing Chinese middle class when they want more consumer names and products that are coming from the West?»»

«Class actions succeed in bringing hundreds of millions of dollars in relief to millions of consumers each year and cause companies to alter their legally questionable conduct,» the study said.

«Forced arbitration and class action bans force consumers into a biased, secretive, and lawless forum, preventing either a court or an arbitrator from ordering a lawbreaker to repay all of its victims.»

«In the 50 years since the advent of modern day class action lawsuits, plaintiffs» lawyers have made millions of dollars in fees from these suits while consumers often receive little benefit,» the chamber said in a statement.

But AmEx notes that a new class of Canadian luxury consumers has emerged, one that before 2007 didn't make a single purchase from any of the hundreds of luxury brands AmEx monitors, but that now represents 50 % of the consumers and 35 % of spending.

Even the Chinese, who've tried to replicate the success of European industry, have had no success engraving a luxury brand into consumers» minds that compares with Europe's best in class — Chanel, Prada, Burberry, Cartier, Hermes, Gucci, Dior and Louis Vuitton.»

The president offered insight on how extending the tax cuts for the middle class could help keep our businesses growing without hindering the purchasing power of American consumers.

And a Jan. 28 filing from Red Bull gets downright anatomical in its opposition to the Old Ox name: «An «ox» and a «bull» both fall within the same class of «bovine» animals and are virtually indistinguishable to most consumers,» the filing reads.

Meeting the needs of emerging middle - class consumers in the developing world will spawn some very large businesses.

In fact, you may even belong to a growing consumer class that has some of the world's biggest and best - known companies scrambling to change their businesses.

«There's a vast emerging consumer group below the existing middle class that is going to constitute a high proportion of the world's purchasing power, but as yet is massively untapped,» Kuper says.

Rajesh Jain is the sort of entrepreneur who didn't invent a new market by devising an innovative product; rather, he had the resolve and the international contacts to jump onto a roaring global food revolution that's being driven by newly middle class consumers in China, India and elsewhere in Asia.

Today President Obama took a big step forward in his goal to strengthen the economy and strengthen the middle class with the nomination of Richard Cordray as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

A day following the announcement of the data breach, the National Consumer Law Center called for Equifax to «immediately remove the forced arbitration clause and class action ban» from its terms of use.

Wei said that during the past year the company has strived to meet «demand for high - end and healthy products of the middle class,» with its premium soup series containing less additives to cater to health - conscious consumers.

The ensuing boom endowed the middle class in the United States and other countries, but was debt financed, first for home ownership and commercial real estate, then by consumer credit to purchase of automobiles and appliances, and finally by credit - card debt just to meet living expenses.

For the most part, data breach class actions have settled for relatively small amounts of money, even if the breaches affected millions of consumers.

Over the course of his 25 - year legal career, he has tenaciously fought for the rights of consumers, concentrating his practice on consumer lending and consumer fraud class actions.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a new rule Monday that makes it easier for groups of consumers to band together to form and join class - action lawsuits.

Monday that makes it easier for groups of consumers to band together to form and join class - action lawsuits.

With the rule announced Monday, groups of consumers will be able to band together to form class - action suits in situations they may not otherwise have bothered with.

Of the 2.4 billion people around the world who will become middle class consumers by 2030, two billion will come from Asia.

The acceleration of spending among this richer middle class, while that of the other middle - class constituents decelerates, has created what BCG calls a «two - speed consumer economy» in China.

(21) Six of the ten of the least affordable cities in the U.S. are in California, with San Francisco the least affordable city with only 14 per cent of homes available in 2014 affordable to middle - class consumers.

This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.

The rapid growth of the middle class in developing markets globally, and particularly in Asia, has catalyzed rapid changes in consumer demand.

Speaking at Tmall's Super Kitchen event, an offline expo of home goods held by Alibaba Group's business - to - consumer site, Stewart said she saw an opportunity to expand her brand into the world's second largest economy as rising incomes in the middle class there were increasingly being spent on lifestyle and experiential purchases rather than staple goods.

«The post-recession reality is that the customer base for businesses that appeal to the middle class is shrinking as the top tier pulls even further away... big stores and restaurants are chasing richer customers with a wider offering of high - end goods and services, or focusing on rock - bottom prices to attract the expanding ranks of penny - pinching consumers.»

Hagens Berman prosecuted a lawsuit against TAP Pharmaceuticals Products, Inc. on behalf of a class of consumers and third - party payors who purchased the drug Lupron.

Emerging markets are driving this growth: China, in particular, is the world's largest consumer of meat, with protein consumption expected to grow 3 — 4 % a year thanks to a rising middle class.

Doing business in Asia is a great opportunity for British Columbia (B.C.) companies: Asian economies are growing rapidly, creating millions of new middle - class consumers every year.

In the book, I refer to this class of consumer as «the Connected Customer» and their behavior is noticeably dissimilar to that of their traditional counterparts.

Some 18 % of this year's class went into the technology industry, up from just 12 % in 2012, while 7 % went into the consumer products industry, up from a mere 3 % last year, and 5 % took jobs in the non-profit or government sectors, up from 3 % in 2012.

Friday's currency turmoil and stock market plunge was a case of the chickens coming home to roost from the class - war policies being waged by European and Asian industry and banking squeezing their domestic consumer markets — that is, labor's living standards — in favor of export production to the United States.