Sentences with phrase «monopoly over the industry»

(Italian eyewear maker Luxxotica, which owns retailers Lenscrafters, Pearle Vision and Eyemed, as well as almost every glasses brand you've ever heard of, holds a near monopoly over the industry.)

If the Kindle did support EPUB, especially Adobe EPUB, then Amazon would easily become the dominate ereader distributor and ebook distributor — then they would start to have too much of a monopoly over the industry.

Not exact matches

In the 1880s, the most sophisticated railroad managers and some economists argued that railroads were «natural monopolies,» the inevitable consequence of an industry that required huge investments in rights of way over land, constructing railways, and building train engines and rail cars.

Also, while the broadcast industry is provided with a government - protected monopoly over the use of a particular frequency, it is taxed as if it were an ordinary business, subject to all of the risks other businesses face through genuine competition.

Over time, union power dwindled, not because the bargaining structure was reformed, but because deregulation and greater foreign competition left labor fewer monopoly profits to extract in key industries such as automobile and steel.

Bookstores over their lifetime have basically had a monopoly on sales, but the industry has been disrupted by companies like Amazon, Kobo and Sony.

On the other hand, I'm left wondering what happens if Amazon wins, gains their legal monopoly over the reading industry, and then starts squeezing the little guy when we have nowhere else to go?

Instead of throwing accusation all over the place, smart competitors should move on to offer the same level of quality if not better to outperform the said monopoly who has revolutionized the publishing industry and the way you and I read.

Instead of the nine servicers that currently receive student loans, the decision would give all federal student loans to a single servicer, in effect creating a $ 1 trillion monopoly over the federal student loan industry.

The addition of the cat and saving of Scottie dog proves Monopoly fans from all over the globe are real animal lovers, and that's a victory for the pet industry.

Monsanto's quiet monopoly over the seed industry, and as a result the world's food supply, presents the most valid argument against any sort of genetic modification.

No sexy topic but ICBC has been welding it's monopoly in the auto industry by forcing many innocent injury claimant's to court over their case expenses.

Contrary to what the Competition Bureau may believe CREA has no monopoly over the real estate industry, because to suggest so would mean that CREA controls price and supply; kind of like the big oil companies with gasoline prices, and banks with their service charges and interest rates.

The Competition Bureau sees REALTORS ® as having a monopoly over the real estate industry because we developed and maintain MLS ®, albeit for the use of contributing to the prosperity of individuals seeking to carry out real estate transactions with even more confidence and success.