According to the U.S. Consumer Product Association, 2007 was the worst year ever in terms of the number of product recalls, with 467 consumer products recalled--and that doesn't include auto and medical snafus.
It can, for example, increase the price that people are willing to pay for a product or the number of products a company can sell.
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Traders love the product because the number of common stocks listed on U.S. exchanges has dropped by half since 1997 and ETF trading is filling the gap.
Users can capture footage from their 3-D cameras, edit them, and export the finished product to a number of different 3-D formats, from those used in the theater to home devices.
For example, systems should provide information that would be useful to sales people such as accounts receivable, the number of new customers added, the number of customer sites using our product, when a new product is coming out, or why a customer is leaving.
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There might however be a margin impact this quarter due to the high component costs at the start of any product cycle, exacerbated by the number of new products Apple has launched this holiday season.
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They thought it was best to reduce the number of product lines, simplify the choices for customers, emphasize margins and drive less for sales.
However, he had confidence in his entrepreneurial abilities and believed he would be able to deliver a better product for the growing number of smartphone-using travelers.
Subtle changes in product design simplify assembly or reduce the number of people needed to complete a product.
The number of scareware product variants was about 142 in 2004, there have been 110 new variants tracked in just the first two months of 2010.
The 128GB iPad is an attractive product for a number of iPad users, but I suspect that the knock-on effects in the rest of the tablet space are a very nice bonus for Tim Cook and his team at Apple.
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Also, as the seller would not have to deal with shipping issues because the product can be transferred digitally without any intermediaries, the number of users interested in reselling their content would be larger than the number of active sellers on sites like eBay.
As the team continues to grow, both in number of people and product maturity, the entropy also begins to increase.
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One medical student interested in applying cold called a few finance professors and created his own valuation technique, using a formula including the relationship between the number of Facebook friends and the average product price.
"They also pose risks to consumers from malware and often fail to provide viewers with the quality product they could often get through a growing number of legitimate sources, " said the spokesman.
That means the book is a product with a number of services attached and needs treating like any other lean start-up.
Also since the product stays fresh longer, it is now possible to reduce the number of deliveries without negatively affecting the quality of the product.
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Obviously, rationing may be the lesser of two evils, especially in the current gasoline shortage situation where the problem is the limited number of sales points rather the limited supply of the product.
Throughout the campaign the team responded to thousands of comments and suggestions from Kickstarter backers that saw the product evolve in real-time as the team scrambled to incorporate a number of requested features from additional memory capacity to support for peripheral hardware via a docking station.
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The first step will be for RIM to reassess its product line and to find the courage to reduce the number of models.
Economies of networking arise on the demand side of the market, when consumers buy a product in groups rather as individual units, the larger the number of consumers joining the group, the greater the benefit for each consumer.
Tim Cook and his C-Suite team took to the stage yesterday to debut a number of new devices, refreshing almost the entire consumer product line in time for the holiday season.
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This indictment is the product of intense efforts by a large number of people in my Office.
Manz says search engines, with Google in particular, are still the number one choice for accessing product information.
WebMD added that it expects an increase in the number of new branded pharmaceutical product introductions as a result of regulatory approvals expected during 2012.
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As tends to be the case with Apple, there are a number of new product rumors floating about from a new iPhone, new iPad and even the much discussed iWatch.
How could anyone, you might wonder, not see the link between a dramatic reduction in the number of people producing the news and the thoroughness of that product?
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The RFID chip can contain not only an identification number that works like a license plate, but also the product's expiration date.
This multiplies the number of individuals necessary to deliver product to customers and doubles the costs associated with trucks and fuel.
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