Sentences with phrase «more on the consumer products»

According to those who are familiar with the company's internal plans, Apple has made this decision as part of a wider company direction of focusing efforts more on the consumer products that generate the bulk of the Cupertino - based company's quarterly and yearly revenue.

Not exact matches

In other words, if the company notices a shift in local consumer tastes, it can fire off a batch of new garb from a nearby factory and get product on shelves many months faster than the old way — a supply chain triumph given that Levi works two years in advance and uses more than 1,000 different finishes in a season, which lasts six months.

That won't surprise anyone who's seen the recent New York City Department of Consumer Affairs report on gender pricing in the city, which found that toys and accessories marketed at girls cost an average of 7 % more than similar products aimed at boys.

Retailers regularly require wholesale discount prices of 70 percent or more, from the final consumer price on products, and those costs are passed on to the consumer.

Damn the American consumer who dares to pay for such frivolities, never mind the fact that we spend more than $ 10 billion a year on bottles of stuff that otherwise flows freely from our taps — and one of the most popular brands ships its product in from a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean.

The more consumers who use Android - based products, the more data Google gets on consumer behavior.

«Airlines have started to charge for more things, but with an airline rewards credit card, you can get things like your first bag checked free and priority boarding,» says Erik Larson, president and founder of NextAdvisor.com, which provides consumer - oriented research on credit cards and other products.

A 2010 study conducted by Cone Communications, a public relations and marketing agency focused on social causes, reported that 80 percent of consumers are more likely to purchase a product that supports a cause during the holiday season.

Based on client selections, chatbots can then offer additional product suggestions that may spark consumer interest and easily rebuttal any objections your customer may have with buying more than they originally intended.

Vegan products branded as mayo that pre-date Hampton Creek are on the market, but those offerings are more clearly targeting health - conscious consumers.

A niche equity website with a focus on high - growth consumer product and retail companies, CircleUp has partnered with Procter & Gamble and General Mills to offer more value beyond the funding, giving entrepreneurs access to these brands.

A Justice Department official told reporters on Monday that the merger would raise prices for consumers and potentially block creators of media content from distributing their product without paying more money.

Trump recently placed a 30 % tariff on imported solar panels, a move that could make the product more expensive for consumers.

That makes it all the more difficult for a direct - seller reliant on «word - of - mouth» to make consumers aware of its products and for reps to make money, resulting in a vicious cycle of declining sales for Avon.

With more customers creating content than consuming it in China, influencers may be a great way to reach consumers, with local video bloggers and social media users using a business's product in exchange for a review on their various high - profile channels.

More than 30 products were given the distinction this year; we've curated a short list of some of the products that are already capitalizing on what are likely to be the biggest consumer product trends of 2016.

Now, as more companies try to tell stories around where their products come from to meet increasingly informed consumer tastes, you can learn a lot from how Sweetgreen and its suppliers went from begging a local distributor for arugula to selling Americans on steelhead trout.

«Our goal on the direct - to - consumer front is the United States is to go out with essentially a family - oriented product with Disney and Pixar and Marvel and [Star Wars - creator Lucasfilm], and that's going to launch in 2019; a sports product from ESPN in 2018; and, we'll probably be a more adult - oriented product from Hulu and give consumers the ability to buy all three or to buy them individually,» Iger said on CNBC.

It could mean taking on a supplier after their relationship soured, in order to offer a specific product that will win over more consumers.

While you're more than likely to get a heavy sales pitch touting all the benefits when shopping, consumer advocates say these plans, which can cost hundreds of dollars depending on the product you're covering, generally are not worth the money.

By the time BlackBerry 10 is released, the company could be working with a smaller subscriber base, and it will have suffered more reputational damage in the wake of bleak earnings reports, further souring consumers on its products.

With surveys showing that on average, 96 percent of consumers will research a product online before going into a store to buy it, and more and more consumers using smartphones, business owners are realizing the importance of online marketing to draw in these customers.

«It's a matter of consumers increasing their income and the companies getting more consumers to buy their products on a regular basis,» he says.

Here is a look at key healthtech products that were on display and could enable consumers to play a more active role in their own health.

«Our concern is that the new set of tariffs will turn to more consumer products not on the list and will now include things like apparel, home goods, shoes, all of those basic retail goods coming in from China, Gold said.

The market is also seeing increased pressure from the sale of in - shower moisturizers in the body care segment, which may discourage consumers from spending more on soap, bath and shower products that highlight intensive moisture.

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But downstream, all of those industries that rely on steel and aluminum to make their products, and of course all consumers who purchase these goods, are going to pay more.

Chime, a bank account startup, is servicing this demographic by focusing on making its financial services available through a mobile app and providing convenient services that are more similar to social consumer apps than banking products.

The initial results are alarming: The study shows the effectiveness of personality targeting by showing that marketers can attract up to 63 percent more clicks and up to 1,400 more conversions in real - life advertising campaigns on Facebook when matching products and marketing messages to consumers» personality characteristics.

Patent trolls leaned on sympathetic (and self - interested) judges to bully easy settlements out of defendants and force end consumers to pay more for all sorts of products.

Adams recounted that in 1891, Gillette and Painter had a very important conversation; Painter encouraged him to begin working on a product that would be thrown away after its use, which would keep consumers coming back for more of the product.

If a consumer reads that his friend «likes» a product advertised on Facebook, he is more likely to take a second look.

Sales of high - end and luxury consumer products, such as our performance electric vehicles, depend in part on discretionary consumer spending and are even more exposed to adverse changes in general economic conditions.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

Developed economies will continue to be suitable markets for higher end brands targeting the young consumer while businesses can focus on the mass youth market with more affordable prices and products within Asia.

Will consumers actually spend more on locally produced product?

Consumers will soon find more Loblaw private - label products on the shelves of Shoppers Drug Mart stores.

Consumers will be left paying hundreds of millions of dollars more for consumer products, and the tariff schedule remains overly complex and a burden on the Canadian economy.

Canadian products often need to be tested for the US market and once again — or more than once, depending on provincial and territorial requirements — for the Canadian market, raising prices for Canadian consumers and reducing profits for companies.

«We need to get more women starting funds and investing,» said Brand, founding general partner of True Wealth Ventures, an Austin venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early - stage, women - led startups in the consumer health and sustainable products sectors.

Mr. Trump's threatened tariffs on $ 60 billion worth of other Chinese - made products are likely to prompt more retaliation from China, which could single out more valuable American exports such as soybeans and hurt Apple and other companies that rely heavily on Chinese consumers.

Moreover, it has spent more than $ 7 B per year on advertising in the last six years in order to continuously remind consumers that its products are unique and thus deserve their premium status.

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

Generally, as news anchors and the news itself, more and more become the products of popular culture and consumers» desire to see the handsome and the beautiful, and the dramatic and alluring, television viewers will suffer more and more from inaccurate reporting, inane and nearly meaningless stories, outright stupidity, and a complete decline in journalistic integrity (of which this story on CNN is a part).

What's more, the modern consumer has grown to embrace unconventional meat products based on newfound interests in gourmet food and cultural dishes.

We will use technology to give more information to consumers to make decisions on which products to buy.

«OTA's leadership betrayed the more than 90 percent of Americans who support mandatory labeling of GMOs by working behind the scenes with federal lawmakers to craft a federal law that ensures food corporations will never have to reveal, in plain English on product labels, the GMO ingredients in their products,» Ronnie Cummins, international director of the Organic Consumers Association, said in a statement.

The organic market in the People's Republic of China is enjoying continued growth, as more and more consumers are turning to products developed on environmental principles: with turnover of more than 5.8 billion USD in 2015, China is now the world's fourth - largest organic consumer market.

Noting the challenges many baking companies, including Aunt Millie's, are experiencing in pursuit of growth in the bread category, Ms. Dunning said success moving forward will depend on introducing more new products that appeal to consumers with changing interests.