Indeed, merchants at the high-end and those serving niche markets are faring the best.
And yet nobody thinks real shops are finished, especially those operating in niche markets.
If it seems that the Palm platform is being nudged toward niche markets, you're right.
And even if the OS does survive, it'll likely be relegated even further into niche markets.
Berkley has thrived in a notoriously competitive business by going after underserved niche markets.
These companies can exist for long periods of time in highly defensible little niche markets.
VTech dominates two niche markets: electronic learning aids for kids and high-frequency cordless telephones.
Another distinction from the pharmaceutical giants: Serono concentrates on niche markets such as infertility and multiple sclerosis.
It has been expanding into niche markets, including environment- and energy-related businesses, and owns a professional baseball team in Japan.
Apart from continent-hopping business executives, niche markets include long-haul truckers, civil engineers, field scientists, disaster-relief agencies, news organisations, extractive industries and geologists.
Others still fill more niche markets, for example environmentally conscious business startups.
This lowers the cost of models for niche markets, the only source of growth in saturated markets, such as Europe, America and Japan.
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The government's new paper has lots to say on the need for depressed English resorts to regenerate, to adapt and to develop niche markets.
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New imports will continue to make up a large segment of the market, but will be concentrated at the top end and in niche markets.
As viewing becomes more personalised, niche markets for films will grow.
The gender gap narrows within smaller niche markets like photography.
But on the bright side, GKN has a leading share in four niche markets, all of which could grow rapidly if automakers and planemakers outsource more of their components.
It has outperformed its Big Pharma brethren over the past couple years, has a solid strategy of shrinking to focus on niche markets and has a 6% dividend yield.
Smaller reactors, though, have a place: They might not only serve niche markets but they could also replace at least some of those bigger and more centralized nuclear generation.
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The niche markets for crystal fibres are still attractive for a small firm, giving it a foot in the door before large manufacturers such as Lucent and Corning really get going.
Although Teledesic says it is still confident of success, others fear that the improvement of rival technologies, such as broadband wireless and fibre optics, will leave Teledesic with little but niche markets.
He gives the reader insight into why some of these companies become so successful in what might seem like niche markets (as opposed to large and potentially lucrative ones) to an unseasoned observer.
As well, as new players begin participating in the community they can see opportunities to create new products or enter new niche markets, sometimes with partners where greater mutual accountability and mutual benefit is now possible because of social tools.
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This upcoming "flight to quality" will be very good for the handful of elite blue-chip companies that are showing real growth and not just fooling the market with fuzzy math, and for small-cap innovators that are agile enough to capitalize on niche markets.
But if the smaller and scalable technologies prove effective, they will establish valuable niche markets for themselves not just among the TVAs of the world but also among those local utilities and less developed countries that need a clean and continuous source of power.
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That should level the playing field for new entrants into niche funding markets.
Also, like a business, politicians and parties must decide whether they want to profit from niche or mass markets.
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