Apple faces particularly fierce competition from Samsung, which sells a broader variety of phones.
Meanwhile, the oil shock, several recessions and fierce competition from Japan scraped the shine off the American car industry.
And once a drug goes generic, the firm that created the medicine must deal with fierce competition from other manufacturers.
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Like many legacy carriers, PAL struggles to cope with a bloated payroll, high fuel costs and fierce competition from budget airlines.
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But it faces fierce competition from Amazon.com's Kindle, Apple's iPad and new tablet devices expected to hit the market this year.
But while SPH holds the monopoly in Singapore's newspaper market, it's finding that AsiaOne faces fierce competition from other portals operating there.
Publishers certainly need to evolve their methods to combat fierce competition from Amazon and other companies offering a quick solution to publishing.
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Diageo also faces fierce competition from other global giants such as Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller (a London-based firm with roots in South Africa).
Both have been contending with fierce competition from privately held Bloomberg.
The retailer has been struggling to cope with declining sales in the face of increasingly fierce competition from supermarkets and online retailers such as Amazon and iTunes.
Online and, increasingly, on mobile phones, there is fierce competition from music-streaming services such as Last.fm, Spotify and we7, which allow users to assemble their own playlists.
Apple is also facing fierce competition from rivals like Samsung, which accounted for one in four of all mobile phones shipped worldwide last year, according to Strategy Analytics.
The majors can't raise prices at retail because of fierce competition from independent discounters who can get all the supplies they want in a spot market awash in the stuff.
The sale leaves Motorola with a healthy stockpile of cash that it can invest in its core mobile phone business, where it faces fierce competition from Apple, Nokia and others.
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Fierce competition from the likes of Samsung, a strong currency - although there are signs the yen in weakening - and strategic mistakes, have undermined the country's global leadership in electronics.
Ghana's cocoa industry almost collapsed in the 1970s and 1980s after years of government mismanagement, rising costs, fierce competition from other cocoa-producing nations, and falling world market prices for cocoa beans.
Decrease in activity coupled with fierce competition from investors targeting distressed inventory means the possibility of picking up a decent fixer-upper at a discounted price from the bank has greatly narrowed.
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Durand joined the company in January 1995 just as Lupron was facing fierce competition, from Zeneca's Zoladex, a lower-cost rival.
In 2008, faced with a sagging U.S. economy and fierce international competition from South American rose growers, Pinchbeck found himself priced out of the market.
One explanation may be that retailers, insulated from fierce competition, have not passed on cost savings.
Alitalia has not made an annual profit since 2002, suffering from fierce competition, high fuel costs and crippling strikes by employees.
Against fierce competition, it was perhaps the silliest lesson yet drawn from America's tragedy.
Many fear that it could make it even harder for university graduates to find jobs (last year 6.3m students graduated from Chinese universities, up from 1m in 1999, so competition is fierce).
From the start, Motown was a place of fierce competition and collaboration.
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Its homegrown pipeline of new drugs is rather thin, and competition to fill these gaps with drugs from biotech firms is fierce.
And competition from market leaders Oracle and Germany's SAP is fierce.
It makes most of its money from advertising, its growth is slowing, its competition is fierce, its earnings weren't quite what analysts expected and the only people sure to get rich off this deal are the ones dumping shares.
Competition in the on-demand space is already fierce, with free and subscription services from Netflix, Lovefilm, Virgin Media, BT Vision, YouView, BBC iPlayer and BSkyB already fighting for customers.
Following her Kraft homecoming--Rosenfeld had worked for 20 years at Kraft and General Foods before joining PepsiCo--the new chief now has to grapple with high commodity prices, an upcoming spin-off of the company from its 87% owner, Altria, and of course, fierce global competition.
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