Sentences with phrase «years by its competitors»

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Competitors United and American launched their own versions this year, taking it a step further by prohibiting basic economy passengers from using overhead bins.

A 2014 survey conducted by Powersports Business magazine and RBC Capital Markets indicates retailers that sell BRP vehicles are outperforming their competitors: 32 % of BRP dealers reported an increase in motorcycle sales of at least 20 % in the fourth quarter of last year (compared with 13 % for dealers overall), and 42 % of BRP dealers expect another 20 % jump in sales for 2015.

The Apple co-founder, before his passing, derided the sort of smaller tablets being pumped out by competitors two years ago as inferior and undesirable.

T - Mobile became the first major U.S. carrier to eliminate two - year contracts, a shift quickly embraced by consumers and copied by competitors.

I was doing a seminar many years ago on networking and was talking about the value of collaborating with your competition from time to time, and how it is actually possible to increase your business by collaborating and cooperating with people who might be your competitors.

Many cable competitors have come and gone over the years, done in by the expense of wiring every customer's home.

In the past five years, Columbia managed to increase its average scholarships by 38.5 %, a much smaller jump than its competitors.

Home Hardware jumped 10 spots this year, perhaps reflecting the shuffling of the deck in the home improvement category as competitor Rona was bought by U.S. giant Lowe's.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

By working on self - driving car technology, Apple is putting itself in direct competition with a slew of competitors, including Alphabet's Waymo (GOOGL), which has been developing an autonomous driving product for years.

Launched four years ago by an Ottawa husband - and - wife team, it's a vibrator for couples that stimulates both partners at once — and outsells its competitors by three to one.

Some argue what we're witnessing is «peak Apple,» and that it's only a matter of time before it's overtaken by a smaller, more nimble competitor — just as Apple overtook BlackBerry so many years ago.

Last month, the World Drone Prix — organized by the World Organization of Racing Drones and Sheikh Hamdan, crown prince of Dubai — handed out roughly $ 1 million in prizes, including a $ 250,000 grand prize to a 15 - year - old British pilot who bested 100 other competitors at a two - day event in Dubai.

CNN noted that its growth doesn't look as impressive as its competitors in part because the network had a number of special presidential debates and town - hall events in the first quarter of last year that boosted its reach, so the rise since then is smaller by comparison.

Competitor cut off by Twitter Ramping up to SXSW, Meerkat was a buzzy app, acquiring high - profile followers like Jared Leto and dubbed by major news outlets as the «it» app of the year.

So, while Hilton says HHonors's changes match those made by competitors over the past few years, customers who see loyalty points as cash in hand are still indignant.

Launched four years ago by an Ottawa husband - and - wife team, the We - Vibe outsells its competitors by three to one.

Westland Last year, around the time Bezos committed to investing as much as $ 5 billion in India to compete with Asian - grown competitors like Alibaba, he purchased this Indian book publisher, owned by outsourcer Tata Group, for $ 1.4 million.

By the second year, Buytopia went on a shopping spree and bought six competitors.

The company's success is built on a bet that it could win market share at the cost of its competitors by remaining unprofitable for many years.

Not bad for an app that nearly tanked less than a year after it launched, only to survive by the skin of its teeth with an app launch party that gained it the much - needed users that make it now one of Silicon Alley's hottest startups, and an incredibly viable competitor to Tinder.

Bizzabo's main competitor is Cvent, which is now the world's largest event management software after it was acquired and merged with Lanyon by Vista Equity Partners for $ 1.65 billion last year.

Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, 61, is trying to ride out a years - long bond - trading slump that's being compounded by market swings and stiffer regulations — challenges that have forced many competitors to scale back.

Its competitors include Mosa Meat, co-founded by Dr. Post and Maastricht University, which aims to commercialise lab - grown minced meat in 5 years.

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France Telecom SA, SFR's main competitor and the country's biggest phone operator, was rocked two years ago by a streak of employee suicides which unions blamed on stress caused by a reorganization aimed at making the company more competitive.

The 104 - page OPEC report finds that there will be greater demand for the group's oil in 2016, with customers consuming an average of 31.65 million barrels a day throughout the year because the market will be «supply - driven» as competitors, beset by low prices, continue to cut back severely on capital expenditures ranging from exploration to new drilling.

At a conference held by Scotiabank on Tuesday, the 59 - year - old executive told analysts that Tim Hortons needs to ensure its menu defines the company, rather then reflects the same products offered by its competitors.

To grow in to the resultant current market cap Tesla has to be selling 1.7 mm vehicles, at a profit, within 5 years (versus the 2.2 mm currently produced and sold by mainline competitors such as BMW and Mercedes Benz).

While Chief Executive Officer Don Thompson has tried to lure diners from competitors by advertising its dollar menu in the U.S., its domestic comparable - store sales fell for the first time in 10 years.

Over the last few years, employees say, the Paranoids have been routinely hired away by competitors like Apple, Facebook and Google.

Out of 8 land sites released for sale by Singapore's government last year, 3 of them were won by Chinese developers; their winning bids significantly high than the bids made by their competitors.

In a study by Aberdeen Group, highly - aligned organizations achieved an average of 32 % year - over-year revenue growth - while their less aligned competitors saw a 7 % decrease in revenue.

Let me show you a really simple technique that you can use with the previous technique i showed you about using individual keywords instead of pasting a bunch of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video number two in this series but once you've done your search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my search terms now everybody knows about this this year but a lot of people don't take the time to actually use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i search again now i'm going to get back results that have the word tip instead of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch of keywords and hitting search they're getting back 706 results for this sample test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're using these other methods taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new method of both using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can take this information and you can use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there's so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and keyword grouper pro is completely free there's not even an opt - in you simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro it doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

Last year the Harper review of competition law recommended getting rid of the «take advantage» test to crack down more effectively on anti-competitive behaviour by big companies such as exclusive deals, loss - leader pricing and cross-subsidisation to stamp out new competitors.

The timing of the retaliation on American wine, one of the 128 products that will see tariffs increase by either 15 % or 25 %, according to Koch, will set back the hard work by American wine producers for years when its main competitors including Australia and Chile are enjoying reduced tariffs thanks to Free Trade Agreements.

For the past three years Paul has headed the largest division of Accolade Wines, the UK and Ireland region, where the business is the number one wine company by value and volume, more than double the size of its nearest competitor.

From large multinationals with a presence in all markets that want to launch a special container on the market each year to distinguish themselves from their competitors, to SMEs that want to give added value to their product by means of metal packaging and in more reduced quantities.

wenger runs a comfy, nurturing club good for player development (and if u get injured he'll stick by you for many years and then he'll let u leave for a competitor).

Manchester United are Manchester City's closest competitors this year, but they still trail the league leaders by 12 points.

Mickelson, who went 3 -0-1 in the Americans» expected drubbing of the Internationals at Liberty National, at 47, was the oldest U.S. competitor by seven years over Charley Hoffman.

In 1930, the company produced 842,000 cans of baby food; by 1931 the number had risen to 1,311,500 cans; one year later, in 1932, Gerber manufactured 2,259,818 cans of baby food.65 Despite competitors» quick development of their own mass - produced strained baby foods, Gerber dominated U.S. market share over such competitors as Clapp's, Heinz, Beech - Nut, Stokeley, and Libby.66 The new baby food products were so successful that by 1941 the Fremont Canning Company changed its name to Gerber's Baby Foods (and in the 1960s became the Gerber Products Company), and two years later it abandoned its line of regular vegetables to make baby foods exclusively.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's investigation was prompted by a young reporter who lost the job she had left Law360 for after the legal newswire informed her new employer that she had signed a non-compete agreement, which stated that she would not work at any competitor for a year.

After 40 years of serving public education students, Republican mayoral nominee Laura Lavine has set herself apart from her competitors by viewing poor education as the root of Syracuse's crime problem.

In another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidies.

«The details about the misdemeanor assault were disclosed publicly years ago, and this has all the hallmarks of a smear campaign by one of the Nevele's competitors,» Runciman said in the press release.

After falling just short of defeating Rangel in 2012 and 2014, Espaillat won last year's primary with 37 % of the vote in an 8 - candidate race, edging his nearest competitor by just 3 %.

Runciman previously said the new report about the sister's six - year - old lawsuit had «all the hallmarks of a smear campaign by one of the Nevele's competitors» for a New York state casino license.

(It should be noted that America as a whole has been outpaced by competitors for years now when it comes to science and math education.

Not until 201 million years ago did dinosaurs begin to dominate worldwide, say Olsen and Irmis — after a mass extinction, caused by volcanic eruptions, wiped out many of their cold - blooded reptile and amphibian competitors.