This was back when Apple's products served a decidedly niche audience and the company seemed destined to, at best, maintain its position as a relatively
small manufacturer of personal computers, if not to be outright crushed by Microsoft and computer manufacturers making machines that ran its operating systems.
Cuomo is expected to announce today that Super Sweep Inc.,
a small manufacturer of push brooms and brushes on Long Island, hopes to boost its workforce by nearly sixfold to 35 people in a $ 4.5 - million project set for Huntington Station.
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a small manufacturer of premium cloth diapers, has found a way to reduce production costs and pass the savings on to their customers.
Q: Dear Dave: I am
a small manufacturer of hot sauces and I am looking for a source of capsaicin and oleoresin extracts approx 1,000,000 — 2,000,000 Scoville Units (or more if possible).
In 1987 G&F,
a small manufacturer of molded - plastic parts in Sturbridge, Mass., got an unusual request from its largest account.
Emanuela develops sketches and drawings of furniture and fireplace design ideas in collaboration with French interior decorating experts, and then
small manufacturers of designer furniture in Italy create wonderful sofas, chairs, beds, console table and fireplaces for modern interior decorating in classic French style.
Not exact matches
The National Association
of Manufacturers and the
Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBEC), in partnership with the International Franchise Association and Women Impacting Public Policy, recently launched a coalition and advocacy campaign called Rethink Red Tape.
Over the course
of my career, I have worked as a software engineer for a $ 78B Fortune 40 company, and as a sales executive for companies that include a
small regional integrator, a large telecom
manufacturer, and now Digium, which offers unified communications solutions for
small and midsize businesses.
• Astranis, a San Francisco - based
manufacturer of small, low - cost telecommunications satellites, raised $ 13.5 million in Series A funding.
For
small town
manufacturers, finding computer - leaning workers can be a challenge because
of the difference between the reality and the classical image
of the industry.
A one - stoplight town with a couple
of banks, a few grocery stores and a decent German deli, Markdale used to be a
small industrial hub, with a furniture plant and footwear
manufacturer alongside Chapman's.
Mogul In The Making is manufactured by a network
of seamstresses and
small manufacturers.
The voluntary recall occurred based on an extremely
small number
of pill packs that were manufactured by an external contract
manufacturer.
While the science has been proven with the giant displays in theatres, the jury is still out on whether it makes a difference with the sorts
of curved televisions that
manufacturers have recently been introducing, and doubly so with even
smaller screens.
So while the Big Three had their choices
of hot smartphones — such as the BlackBerry Torch and Apple's iPhone — the
smaller new entrants were left with slim pickings, sometimes from low - rent Chinese
manufacturers no one had ever heard
of.
Another big win for
small business is the extension to 2014
of the 2007 allowance allowing
manufacturers to write off machinery and equipment quickly.
Many Canadian
small - and medium - sized
manufacturers and exporters consider the U.S. the gateway to free trade, since $ 2.4 billion worth
of goods and services cross the border every day.
Not bad for a
small Canadian
manufacturer with a market capitalization
of just $ 25 million.
So if he buys up a chunk
of your company, take it as a mark
of confidence: The sale
of CPPIB's stake in auto parts
manufacturer Gates Corp. for $ 1.5 billion and its $ 128 - million purchase
of 115,000 acres
of Saskatchewan farmland are just two recent examples that show no deal is too big or
small for the CCPIB head honcho.
The unfortunate reality is the opposite: Electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn't burn hydrocarbons) at the major
manufacturers are
small to non-existent, constituting an average
of far less than 1 %
of their total vehicle sales.
Klein said the scale
of the industry's exposure was not yet clear but he gave the examples
of a
small Northern Irish engineering contractor owed 150,000 pounds and a concrete frame
manufacturer in northwest England owed 2 million pounds.
Small and medium companies across the country that have contracts with the prime (think
of a parts
manufacturer for a car or airplane company) or with the government are eligible in the vast majority
of cases.
Big Food
manufacturers have increasingly announced either full takeovers
of startup brands, or in more recent months, have set up venture capital arms to invest in a slew
of smaller brands with an option to eventually acquire some
of those brands later (if they become successful hits on grocery store aisles).
As a relatively
small and unknown
manufacturer in the big world
of recycled materials, GreenMantra Technologies (No. 20) knew they needed to give their clients (who run the gamut from packaging to construction materials, paint, rubber and tire
manufacturers) some peace
of mind before convincing them to partner up.
Uhlenkott points out that it's the
small and medium - size enterprises, as opposed to larger
manufacturers of automobiles and airplanes, that are likely to be put out
of business in a trade war.
I'll leave it here because
of that, but know that risks like this are ever - present with inexpensive Android phones and
smaller manufacturers.
The world's largest drug
manufacturer is facing steep competition from a slew
of smaller generic players, and the recent loss
of patent protection on its major branded drug, Copaxone, is threatening Teva's profit margins.
Fitzgerald and other
smaller manufacturers like Phoenix Inc. in Indiana and Harrison Truck Centers
of Iowa have already ramped up from 1,000 to 10,000 kits a year since 2010 and are likely to grow.
Under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), the accrual basis
of accounting is required for all businesses that handle inventory, from
small retailers to large
manufacturers.
The
smaller burden
of red tape required for WTO rates, which still involves forms but nothing as complicated on rules
of origin, can deliver real cost savings, says Mathew Wilson, a senior vice-president at Canadian
Manufacturers and Exporters who helps advise Canadian NAFTA negotiators.
Not an insignificant accomplishment for a family
of potato farmers from the
small village
of Florenceville, N.B., who built the world's largest
manufacturer of frozen potatoes.
John Fox, CEO
of New York - based biodiesel
manufacturer Innovation Fuels, explains how government stimulus can make a difference to
small biz.
Sola - Kleen
Smalls is in what some might consider the enviable position
of being the state's only locally owned and operated
manufacturer of solar hot water heaters.
As a new vendor, you'll usually pay a commission
of 5 to 7 percent or more, says Shea Mancini, owner
of Richmond, Virginia - based Mancini Sales and Marketing Inc., who represents
manufacturers like Mrs. Cubbisons, Georgio Foods, Nature's Earth, Wincup and Chempro, as well as
smaller companies like Celli Pasta importer Bontel USA.
As executive chairman
of JMC Steel Group, Barry Zekelman transformed what was a
small company started by his father into North America's largest independent pipe and tube
manufacturer.
Such retailers make very
small margins on the hardware and virtually all
of their money on the games themselves — giving up consoles will hurt them a lot less than the
manufacturers.
For example, since joining the Osborne Group two years ago, John Bielby has conducted two assignments as interim chief operating officer for
small manufacturing companies, applying years
of experience garnered in high - level permanent roles at larger
manufacturers.
But more than half
of small to midsize enterprises that support BYOD are either unaware
of or defenseless against mobile security hazards like malicious apps, domain - name system poisoning (changing an IP address to divert visitors to a rogue website) and jailbroken devices (in which the user removes operating system limitations imposed by
manufacturers and network operators), a Marble Security survey reveals.
William Bologna, chairman
of Columbia Laboratories, a women's hygiene - pharmaceuticals
manufacturer based in Hollywood, Fla., wanted to take advantage
of international growth opportunities despite his company's relatively
small — $ 12 million — size.
Western Australia's
smaller clothing
manufacturers are facing supply problems from China as larger US and European importers capitalise on the easing
of trade restrictions.
For now, Marshall Rafal, president
of OLI Systems Inc., an aqueous and environmental software
manufacturer in Morris Plains, N.J., is another
small - business person who is taking modest steps into electronic banking.
Consider the unhappy experience
of one East Coast software
manufacturer whose chief executive retained a
small and less - than - prominent investment - banking firm in his efforts to woo private - equity investors.
«We're seeing far more
manufacturers be targeted, simply because they do business with a lot
of small companies.
While few
of the big
manufacturers are Canadian, the extensive supply chain means there's plenty
of small companies to work for.
Under his leadership, Bombardier grew from a
small snowmobile
manufacturer into one
of the giants
of Canadian industry, with 74,000 employees in 60 countries and sales
of 20 billion dollars.If Laurent Beaudoin was a professional athlete, he would be inducted into the Hall
of Fame right now.
Auto parts
manufacturers, especially
small companies, worry they would be pushed out
of business by costlier imports.
Mike's client base includes a diverse mix
of over 500
manufacturers from
small businesses to several Fortune 500 companies.
We know the revelation that the Florida Retirement Pensions System had a
small investment in gun
manufacturers is an embarrassment to that organization and to the government
of Florida.
Once aimed at a
small elite with their blingy designs, luxury smartphones are being toned down as
manufacturers look to broaden the appeal
of their high - end devices.