Besides, retailing is very competitive and a highly cyclical business where only the strongest companies survive.
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For a seasonally cyclical business, those are positive moves for investors and shows why the stock is attractive.
The current recession has reminded publishers that advertising is a very cyclical business.
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Imagine a cyclical business in which the government fixes the price of raw material and mandates where to buy it.
With venture capital tighter this year than the prior go-go cycles, the tides have turned once again in this cyclical business.
"This is not a growth business, it's a cyclical business, " Gieber says.
And perhaps worst of all, you have enormous capital expenditure needs coupled to a highly cyclical business that is prone to booms and busts.
Doorstep lending, or home credit as it is termed by the trade, is a counter-cyclical business: in a downturn, bad debts pile up, blackening credit histories.
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In the 1980s Lowe's was the industry leader, but it was overdependent on the cyclical builder business.
Luck may be on Luczo's side: The notoriously cyclical disk drive business seems to be bottoming just as Luczo takes over.
HSBC, argues that the difficulties are cyclical and the basic business model is not broken.
The games business is cyclical: every five or six years, a new generation of consoles appears to slug it out in the market.
Services are becoming more cyclical: output of business and consumer services declined in the recessions of 1981-82 and 1990-91, whereas in previous downturns their growth had merely slowed.
One bondholder blames the shock not on operating foul-ups but on communication problems: Solo could have shaped expectations by explaining cyclical bumps in the business (paper plates sell better in the summer) to investors.
One bondholder blames the shock not on operating foul-ups but on communications problems: Solo could have shaped expectations by explaining cyclical bumps in the business (paper plates sell better in the summer) to investors.
More than just another deal for Dow, the sale of 50.0% of its plastics business to a Kuwaiti state company was part of its strategy to reduce its exposure to the cyclical nature of the commodity chemicals business.
Others, like Intel, suffered from analysts' views that semiconductors were a cyclical, cheap and dirty business.
Besides delivering quality work, Dawson has stayed in business by practicing cyclical contrariness.
But what really worries BA, and other business-oriented airlines, is that the cyclical downturn may be coinciding with a structural decline in business travel because of advances in information technology.
The U.S. integrated steel business is dirty, cyclical and always under siege from foreign producers and nimble, low-cost U.S. minimill operators like Nucor Corp.
No doubt, this business follows a four year cyclical pattern.
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In his thought-provoking Fashion: A Philosophy, philosopher Lars Svendsen emphasises the cyclical aspect of fashion, stating that the business is now driven by the principle of making those cycles as short as possible.
Then the question becomes whether the rare earths mining business is approaching the end of its cyclical downturn.
Though as the company migrates its business model to services, which are not as cyclical, Holt expects greater stability of operating results.
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"Significant management changes have been implemented, a universal banking business model offers its own diversification attractions, whilst cyclical economic exposure and the lack of government ownership also appeal, " he said.
Their cement business will also come under pressure because the sector is on a cyclical downturn.
The CE industry is cyclical and eventually new technology will reach the market at compelling price points to keep retailers in business.
Or it may be a cyclical one: Asia's component-makers often prosper in the early stages of the Western business cycle, as companies rebuild their inventories in anticipation of brighter sales to come.
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"A leaner, more responsive and more productive shipbuilding and offshore construction business will be better placed to take advantage of emerging market opportunities and to counter the cyclical nature of ship-ordering patterns, " he said.
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