Just as superstores edged out some independents, those booksellers — especially
the remaining small independents — that didn't establish an online presence early are feeling Amazon.com's sting, says Seema Williams, a consumer e-commerce analyst with Forrester Research in Boston.
Just as superstores edged out independents, those booksellers — especially
the remaining small independents — that didn't establish an online presence early are feeling Amazon.com's sting, says Seema Williams, a consumer e-commerce analyst with Forrester Research in Boston.
Not exact matches
But the
remaining 12 percent represents a $ 264 million market for
small,
independent manufacturers.
In fact, in its latest report the National Federation of
Independent Business confirms that
small - business optimism
remains relatively low.
Despite rising 0.3 points last month, the National Federation of
Independent Business
Small Business Optimism Index
remains below its pre-recession average, mired in what the association's economists call its «recession range.»
Surely the many
independent butchers I spent time with overseas and that many Australians frequent here are a good example of a fair business model, as are the
small,
independent grocers (who are pretty rare these days as the supermarkets drive them out), though many struggle to
remain viable in a world where food's cheapness is valued well above its fairness.
Though Masterson would
remain on That»70s Show well into the new millennium, he continued to branch out with a number of
smaller,
independent features.
Masuko told CAR that Mitsubishi will
remain independent and
small, eschewing what he calls the «failed marriages» of two unsuccessful alliances with Chrysler and Daimler.
ForeWord, one of the few
remaining wholly
independent review sources, reviews two - thousand - plus books a year from the country's top
small presses.
And Third Avenue
remains fiercely
independent: the active share for the Value Fund is 98.2 % against the MSCI World index,
Small Cap Value is 95 % against the Russell 2000 Value index, and International Value is 97.6 % against MSCI World ex US.
Remaining small and
independent allows Miller to provide exceptional customer service by employing knowledgeable people who know how a practice functions and by being very flexible.
Smaller,
independent pure - play supplement companies will need to modify their business model to extend beyond the supplement category in order to
remain competitive and appealing to large distributors and mass retailers.
Inspired by the
independent record labels he had grown up listening to, Chris decided to create a new kind of publisher: one that would be
independent in spirit, heavily connected to the development scene around it and would
remain small, intimate and champion the same principles that
independent developers embodied.
The Morgan Library was the one institution that had been set running in permanent fashion and, thanks in no
small part to its intrepid and visionary librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, it kept intact its pre-eminent holdings in manuscripts and works on paper and
remained largely
independent of the confusions surrounding the remainder of the legacy.
About BERG MINIGUTTI PLLC: Berg & Minigutti, PLLC was founded so that
independent doctors could
remain independent; employees can be treated as part of the medical team within a
small group and not as an unknown individual in a corporation; and patients can spend quality time with their provider for a successful future in understanding their health!