Sentences with phrase «niche players»

Attack a niche market: Small niche players can respond with more agility and relevance than the big brand dinosaurs.

«The big are getting bigger, and the niche players are continuing on,» says P. Wesley Foster Jr., owner of Long & Foster Real Estate Inc., Fairfax, Va., which has 120 offices in the mid-Atlantic states and 6,000 sales associates.

Between iOS, Android, and Windows Phone (to say nothing of niche players like BlackBerry and Firefox OS or in - development efforts like Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, and Tizen), most smartphone buyers» needs are already being met.

Snapshot • Regulatory driven world with the individual at the center • High stake litigation • Expertise is at a premium • Numerous niche players due to regulatory breakup of large providers

The lawyers may be at traditional law firms (large or smaller niche players) or LPO or other volume providers.

Based on that assessment, vendors are placed in one of four quadrants: leaders, challengers, visionaries, or niche players.

We have negotiated with all of the major service providers and countless niche players.

Yet these are commercial beasts, and thus there are differences between them — in functionality, inclusion of niche players and the treatment of initial discounts.

iOS has no real technological advantages, Apple can't match the product cadence of the collected Android handset developers, and in the long run closed platforms tend to end up being niche players.

Mutual Fund Companies have a need to grow and the two most common are through the big bank offerings available at retail banks in Canada and then there is the broker and brokerage method again with the big banks and some niche players.

The online store quickly gained a critical mass of titles and got out ahead of other niche players as «a one - stop shop» for comics, said Hank Kanalz, who heads up DC's digital operations.

Computer security expert Eugene Kaspersky predicted on Tuesday that Google's Android smartphone operating system will come to dominate the market, reducing Apple and BlackBerry to niche players.

Niche players from Toyota and Nissan — the aging Tundra and all - new Titan, respectively — likewise reported improvements.

Brenda, But now that broad - brush dating sites have saturated the market, niche players are growing ever more plentiful and popular, according to major market research firms that monitor the dating industry.

A lot of these companies are very focused, niche players and I think the niche players here have a great opportunity to make a very good business out of continuing to focus on those niches.

If it decides to seek strategic partners, then the big question is whether IPG Photonics will look to acquire smaller niche players itself, or search for a larger company wanting to buy it out.

As more pension funds look for custom - made solutions it could create an opportunity for niche players with the capacity to provide bespoke transactions.

Skyword, ScribbleLive, Spredfast and Sprinklr are pegged as Niche Players, which are on the short end of both those metrics.

Larger companies too need small, focused, niche players to build such value that can well be integrated in the chain.

That was until Amazon branched out of books and niche players like Etsy provided a different and better product selection with a cleaner user experience less than a decade later.

Ted Stolberg and his partners at Stolberg, Meehan & Scano, in Denver and New York City, are another good example of niche players.

Heidi Messer, an entrepreneur who holds all - female poker games that have introduced early - stage female investors to female entrepreneurs, cautions those who write off these types of companies as niche players.

For example, there are niche players such as Clara Labs and X.AI which schedule appointments and meetings automatically for consumers.

But if it's a small industry, a small market, with small niche players, be very conscious of the consequences of that action.

The companies that booked tours and flights, arranged hotel rooms, and issued travellers» cheques are now gone, or relegated to being niche players in the travel business.

Oculus and HTC are going to have to adjust their pricing sooner or later, or risk becoming niche players in VR.

«While the data caps will limit what the big operators, such as France Télécom, Telefónica, Vodafone and T - Mobile, can charge, they will also limit what the smaller, niche players can make,» said Mr. Strand, who is based in Copenhagen.

As a small niche player, Switch wouldn't be able to produce enough bindings to support its licensed partners.

Like many SaaS companies, Dyn started as a small niche player in an important corner of the Internet — Managed DNS — and slowly carved out a space, honing our product and beating competitors on service, pricing, relationships and added - value until we grew to be the market leader.

Founded by a food science professor, the Swedish oat milk company spent decades as a niche player in the plant - based beverage industry.

The departure of TomTom could aid Garmin, another niche player with a strong following among amateur athletes and fitness freaks.

We'll be aiming to be a niche player looking more [at] the specialty segments because I believe we have very distinct, unique teas that the connoisseur market will appreciate.

The FHA, once a niche player focused on low - income housing, now backs about a third of new mortgages including super-sized ones for wealthy home buyers.

If Duda can put up a decent BA with some power, or if Jay can keep an OBP above.350 -.360, then there is value in a cheap niche player who has shown himself as still a decent performer at the ML level same - season.

«See what the need is and try to become that niche player.

Capitalism will still be around in the future as a robust, powerful niche player, but it will not be dominant.

Tidal power may be destined to remain a niche player in the U.S. energy portfolio, but the low - carbon energy source has one key advantage over wind and solar — it's as dependable as the moon's phases

As a result, «carbon fiber is likely to be somewhat of a niche player,» said Kevin Lowery, director of corporate communications at the aluminum company Alcoa Inc. «Sure, you're going to see it win a piece of an application here and a piece of an application there.

Traditionally, the company behind the Dynasty Warriors and Dead or Alive series has been a niche player.

only a small player) and has no reliable supercharger network... this conclusively shows that Porsche only wants to be a small niche player in the EV market - buying critical batteries and components from third party sources.

Reid Bigland is the man tasked with taking Alfa Romeo from niche player to global premium brand.

Aware that in order to become the world's biggest automaker by 2018 they have to be more than just a niche player in the U.S., the Germans are struggling to up the ante with new or refreshed products such as the 2015 Jetta.

Either the govt is screwing them thoroughly or they have decided to be a niche player in MY!

Volkswagen is looking towards vans and a possible pickup as way to bolster its U.S. lineup and become something other than a niche player in the marketplace.

The Q30 is a big deal for Infiniti, the first time they've built a compact car and the first time they've built a car in the UK (the new Q30 is being built in Sunderland), and the Q30 could elevate Infiniti from being a niche player in the Premium market (certainly in the UK and Europe) to a proper force.

Tata said Jaguar Land Rover will be «less of a niche player in the coming years as new vehicles roll out.

Niche player The Fortwo has always been a bit of niche vehicle in the U.S., primarily adopted by urban iconoclasts.

As a consequence of this total ineptitude, Microsoft doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hades of becoming anything more than a niche player in consumer mobile, while at the same time totally alienating their bread and butter enterprise and SMB customers.

Android will be a toy again and Mac will be a significant niche player as the value of thier phone / tablet ecosystem diminishes.

«RIM is on a path to becoming a niche player,» said Ted Schadler, an analyst for Forrester Research Inc. «RIM has to essentially retrench its strategy.