Sentences with phrase «into global consumer»

Thanks to technology and the internet, consumers around the world have access to the same ideas, meanings and values, which translate into global consumer trends, demands and aspirations.

Pretty much everybody knows Jobs took a maker of niche computers and transformed it into a global consumer electronics powerhouse.

Not exact matches

Other custodians include Boston - based Circle, which began as a consumer bitcoin service, but has pivoted into a global money transfer service.

«With our global brand and broad reach into consumer and commercial markets worldwide, HP can help startups bring product to market, build their business and scale in the global marketplace as they grow.»

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

As a result, over the past decade global luxury brands started expanding into the capitals of oil - rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the U.A.E., giving women access to shopping on par with the biggest European cities (Dubai is home to the world's largest shopping mall) and higher consumer expectations.

The attack was global, Proofpoint says, and targeted 100,000 everyday consumer gadgets, essentially turning them into bots that sent more than 750,000 malicious emails.

Obviously, besides immediately abandoning its propaganda campaign, the Chinese government should reassure the global business community with concrete, honest, realistic, and market - based solutions that address the underlying pathologies of China's poor economic performance: massive debt, endemic overcapacity, and an economic system that channels low - cost capital into inefficient state - owned enterprises at the expense of private entrepreneurs and consumers.

«Franchisors will have to put into place compliance networks,» said Michael Lotito, co-chair of Littler's Workplace Policy Institute, part of global employment and labor law firm Littler Mendelson, P.C. Lotito warns compliance - related costs may eventually trickle down to consumers.

Dubbed «Hollywood's Brandfather» by the Hollywood Reporter, Oza is a global pioneer in celebrity equity deals, and is known for transforming groundbreaking consumer products into household names.

Carolyn Everson, Facebook's VP of global ad sales, said last week that the company would try to turn its data deficiency into an advantage by reshaping the conversation around privacy and consumer information online.

Tmall Global and other business - to - consumer, or B2C, platforms allow international brands to sell their products directly to China's digital shoppers and break into the market.

Research firm Global Cyber Alliance finds that some of the most popular tax software could lead to consumer data getting into the hands of hackers.

The oil price drop will act as a sizable tax cut for the global consumer, and this should begin to boost growth well into 2015.

Leveraging Alibaba's expansive set of consumer analytics, Tmall Global provides overseas vendors insights into Chinese consumers» shopping behavior and preferences, which gives vendors more clarity and greater confidence in choosing what to sell into China, Jing said.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Kimberley Process is a global body backed by the United Nations that's supposed to keep blood diamonds from entering into the consumer stream.

On stand, GPI will present a range of novel solutions that tap into consumer and market trends for artisan, authentic and sustainable packaging; key themes from 2016, that according to Mintel's Global Trend Report 2017, will continue to evolve and are increasingly essential to adding value to the consumer experience.

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Tapping into our proprietary global culinary expertise, industry knowledge and consumer insights, the McCormick Flavor Forecast ® is our guide to predicting the next big trends in flavor.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says it will take into account a number of factors, including imported beer licensing deals, when assessing the Australian market in beer, and whether any competition issues arise from the proposed global merger.

The push into more branded consumer products comes after the price of global dairy commodities has more than halved in the past two years.

The Global Animal Partnership Program will give insights into how its animal welfare rating scheme is educating consumers on sustainable meat products.

But Nexba co-founder and global chief executive Troy Douglas said the full distribution agreement with Woolworths, which puts its raspberry, lemon and cola drinks on shelves from September 4, meant a big acceleration in the business as it taps into growing demand from consumers.

A push by Coles and Woolworths into the health foods category has been bolstered by a global survey underlining the strength of consumer demand for healthier packaged and fresh foods.

Goal 12 — to ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns — is broken down into 11 smaller goals; 12.3 is to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.

Global snacking firm Pladis has revealed its insights into «the new breed of snackers» in the UK, with younger consumers snacking more than any previous generation.

Tmall Global and other business - to - consumer, or B2C, platforms allow international brands to sell their products directly to China's digital shoppers and break into the market.

But while Monster Energy represents a seismic shift from how NASCAR typically engaged consumers — new and old alike — the company's approach to marketing is also precisely what NASCAR sought when it entered into a two - year agreement with Monster to serve as its Cup Series title sponsor, Steve Phelps, NASCAR's executive vice president and chief global sales and marketing officer, told SB Nation.

Complex as they may be, the activities and effects of consumers should be incorporated into global vegetation models in order to accurately predict the likely consequences of global change.

According to editor Tiffany Godoy, who is a veteran of the Tokyo fashion industry, a lot of it had to do with the global financial crisis in 2011, followed by the Tōhoku and Fukushima catastrophes, which hurt consumer confidence and saw the world's third - largest economy to fall into years of tepid growth and deflation.

It felt a little like Fashion's Night Out, the global shopping - cum - party event first initiated by American Vogue that drew hundreds of thousands of consumers all over the world into stores to celebrate fashion and shopping at a time when the global economy was in the doldrums (though, of course, most of the attendees didn't actually shop, coming instead for the entertainment value).

«It allows Continental to welcome you as if arriving at a friend's house for dinner, or checking into a resort,» Ford global consumer trends manager Sheryl Connelly said in a statement.

Mary Chan, president, GM's Global Connected Consumer, says that its customers rely on their wireless connections throughout the day, and having a 4G LTE hotspot built into their vehicles «will provide a more consistent and powerful Wi - Fi connection than a smartphone,» she says.

And what will breathe new life into a really interesting digital enhancement in order to encourage more consumers to see books on a global participation scale?

I'm a big fan of going after the companies that charged upfront fees that were harmful to consumers but when you start naming companies like Global, Noteworld, Rocky Mountain Bank and LowerMyBills, you then put yourself in the category of the «et al» bottom feeder who will drag everyone and their mother into a lawsuit just to get a huge settlement that your law firm will keep.

Tourism Australia's commissioned study - carried out by research consultancy GfK Blue Moon - represents the first time Tourism Australia has undertaken comprehensive research into the travel behaviour and preferences of consumers living in China's rapidly growing secondary cities, including Chongqing, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wuhan and Xiamen — all rising global cities.

The new partnership allows these companies to tap into global networking opportunities offered by WTM, leveraged by the targeted and valuable suite of resources delivered by ONBC to reach LGBT consumers worldwide.

Tourism Australia also unveiled, for the first time, the findings of a major international tourism research project into how global consumers view Australia and demand triggers most motivating them to visit.

Carline Bremner, Head of Travel and Tourism Research, Euromonitor International, said: «Hotels are applying various strategies to learn more about the Chinese consumer and feed that insight into their global network.

While about 7 million units of Nintendo Switch hardware have been delivered into the hands of our consumers around the world, we estimate that the global sell - through of Super Mario Odyssey has already exceeded 2 million units in just its first 3 days.

Today, aided by the power of digital media, thousands of artists, activists, and ordinary citizens across the world — and the internet — routinely reverse the power of advertising, transforming ads and logos into a global conversation between corporation and consumer.

That it needs water, fertilizer, weed control, harvesting, storage, packaging, transportation to distrubution points, storage there, shipping into the global economy, storage and transportation to the final retail outlet and then to the consumers home, disposal of the packaging, trash pickup, transportation of the trash to the facility, and many more points I may have overlooked.

At the tipping point, oil prices exceed the pain tolerance of a sufficient number of global consumers, causing economies to roll over into severe recession.»

Today, around 1.7 billion of us fall into the category of «the global consumer class,» according to WorldWatch Institute.

And it certainly could not lift the 2.8 billion people that survive on less than $ 2 a day into «the global consumer class.»

As represented by the 30 - year global average shifts, the first span of global warming (consisting of the first 4 shifts up) was very lengthy, reaching all the way into the 1970's - this long span being primarily well before the gargantuan consumer / industrial CO2 emissions from the late 20th century of the modern era.

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The impact of the U.S. energy revolution on global supply, with real benefits reaching consumers, is seen we head into the Labor Day weekend.