Fierce competition in the travel market and doubts over Lastminute.com's profitability further hurt the firm's share price.
The strategy makes sense in the airline market where there is fierce competition and volatile energy prices make profit margins razor thin for many carriers.
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Designers operating solely in the contemporary market find the competition is fierce.
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Competition in this market is fierce due to the presence of established players like Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Broadcom.
The advantage for the hedge funds in the mortgage market lay in the inefficiency of that market and the lack of such fierce competition as existed in the much larger universe of macro hedge funds.
The April issue of Outside magazine has an excellent article by Mike Kessler about the increasingly fierce competition in the waterproof, breathable fabrics market.
Mr. JIM HALL (AutoPacific Inc.): The competition in the market really is absolutely fierce.
The competition for IT talent is fierce, and market value is driven by available skills in the market.
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But while SPH holds the monopoly in Singapore's newspaper market, it's finding that AsiaOne faces fierce competition from other portals operating there.
The depressed job market means that competition for low-skill positions is fierce, as young dropouts compete with older and better-educated workers who are being pushed down the jobs ladder.
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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.
And competition from market leaders Oracle and Germany's SAP is fierce.
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.
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 competition in the apparel industry is incredibly fierce with many top competitors yearning for their share of the market.
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