"In a soft market tenants are going to go to the highest-quality space, " says Jeffrey.
Fortunately, one soft market can't derail a well-diversified REIT, notes PaineWebber's Boston.
That trend, while understandable as the company wrestles with a still-soft market and suddenly rising input costs, could put a damper on Sysco shares in the future.
But as the economy slowly rebounds from the worst of the Great Recession, corporations have been able to take advantage of a relatively soft market for sports sponsorships.
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Vingroup now has a portfolio of 31 real estate developments: 12 have been completed, 3 are under construction and the rest are in some stage of preconstruction planning (several projects are on hold, so as not to drive down the prices of other inventory, given the soft market).
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This should put to rest concerns about the soft drink market being dead.
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The U.S. carbonated soft drinks market, which comprises most of the North American market, has been declining in recent years.
As well as the recall, Britvic said that the cold, wet weather over the summer had also "weighed heavily on the soft drinks market".
But wage growth has been sluggish, implying a soft jobs market.
Rather than bemoan the perils of digitalization or a soft ad market, he touts the unmatched reach a traditional broadcast series like CSI can provide advertisers.
It's not going to be subject to as many of the vacillations as home sales are in the current environment where you've got a soft housing market.
Separately, Britvic, Britain's second-biggest soft drinks maker after Coca Cola, warned of tough trading conditions in the soft drinks market, largely because of the rising cost of raw materials.
Still worse: ABC, which includes the broadcast network and its local stations, saw its operating income plunge 34%, a reflection of both higher programming costs and a soft ad market.
We believe integrating the bottlers business into its own business and leveraging its strong brand image in carbonated soft drink market, Coca-Cola will be able to increase its revenues from national and international operations.
Much of the attention throughout the sports business during the past week has been paid to the attendance issues surrounding the Tampa Bay Rays and the commentary that reasons the Tampa Bay area is too soft a market for Major League Baseball.
The average of Trefis member forecasts for U.S. Carbonated Soft Drinks Market Size indicate an increase from 9.8 billion in 2010 to 10.1 billion by 2016, compared to the baseline Trefis estimate of a decrease from 9.3 billion in 2010 to 9.2 billion by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
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The payoff: Polar's share of the soft-drink market has climbed to 33%, and Mendoza is determined to increase it further.
Because this procedure, called compilation, is hard to reverse, firms can sell a program without revealing the instructions that underlie it rather as Coca-Cola can market soft drinks without giving away its secret recipe.
Assume further that the wool market is soft and American's aren't eating much mutton these days.
Construction began in May 2008, when South Florida's real-estate market was soft, said Mr. Alexander.
The advertising market is soft, so magazine pagination is coming down, as is the number of titles.
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Similarly, the market appears willing to bet China will succeed in engineering a soft landing for its overheated housing market, but it is still too early to say whether it will succeed.
The total consumer market volume for soft drinks in China is forecast to reach somewhere in the region of 20.6 billion liters by 2016, growing by about 47% against 2011.
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With many markets, such as aerospace, industrial gas turbine and commercial building remaining soft, and the residential construction market being hampered by severe winter weather, Alcoa says that it will strengthen its performance by developing innovative products that add value for its customers.
In an ordinary market like shoes or soft drinks, the case for blocking the merger of two out of six firms would be pretty weak, because we could be confident that consumers could shift to smaller competitors or new entrants should the largest incumbents do a poor job of serving their customers.
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As Van Hees notes, the company blamed the weak results in part on soft DRAM demand from the consumer PC market.
We expect the namesake beverage Coca-Cola to gradually increase its market share in the international soft drink markets as the company continues to go deeper into the developing regions.
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One of the primary reasons for maintaining the soft cap has been to allow smaller market teams to hold onto star players who might otherwise leave for a bigger contract.
Is Coca-Cola, say, in the market for colas, for carbonated soft drinks, or for all liquid refreshments?
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