In today's marketplace, distinct differences in the way competitive products work have become increasingly rare.
Countries like Brazil will welcome the new MERCOSUR member and enter the market with competitive products.
Further in the auto sector, Japanese makers have been unveiling new, highly competitive products.
But Brazil has many competitive products, from soybeans to shoes, whose exports should boom.
The result is a magic brew, with a faintly sweet odor that handymen find addictive (many competitive products stink).
But many of the most competitive products face special duties or non-tariff barriers.
Samsung expects to keep its frontrunner status in the global memory semiconductor industry with competitive products and differentiated cost structure.
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However, with the aim to develop more competitive products over next year, Broadcom is confident of increasing traction in the Chinese market.
Some manufacturers lay out a grid with price versus features, placing competitive products on the grid along with the proposed new product.
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These people should be experts on the area your product addresses and have real experience working with competitive products or their own self-made workarounds.
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The company plans to improve its revenue and profitability in 2013 with more competitive products, advanced technologies and a stronger focus on profitable regions.
In both cases, at least for now, the two greatest risks are competitive products (Nvidia and Broadcomm for Qualcomm, Intel for ARM) and slowing market.
No U.S. companies offer competitive products yet, but DuPont (nyse: DD - news - people ) is working hard to catch up.
The ready-aim-fire traditional approach works best in more mature markets, where your strategy is to add features and value to competitive products, or address an underserved new segment of the marketplace.
But the big thing is that we are seeing a very rapid increase in the accessibility and use of mobile data, thanks to things like iPhones, iPads and all the competitive products that Dell and HPwill come up in terms of accessing that mobile data.
Unlike almost all competitive products that use only one sensor to 'read' the body, BodyMedia's monitors incorporate temperature, heat flux, galvanic skin response and 3-axis accelerometer sensors to get accurate measurements of calorie burn, exercise intensity and sleep patterns that affect weight as well as health.
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But the question remains whether Samsung can maintain its smartphone momentum as the industry grows more competitive and products start to become commoditized.
Honda, Mazda, and Daihatsu have also introduced highly competitive hybrid products.
The Japanese currency has fallen 15% against the dollar, making exporters more competitive as their products are cheaper when sold overseas.
At the same time, as wages rise in China, firms are relocating their manufacturing options to Mexico, where wages remain competitive and where products have easier access to the U.S. and Canadian markets through the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Worse, outsourcing nurtures corporate complacency whereby leadership fails to address competitive threats from alternative products.
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Mr Steinitz says Israel must make such products more competitive as the world economy recovers.
Robb warns that they may ease down a bit in order to make the prices for its largely more expensive organic products more competitive.
Hong Kong manufacturers say this will make their products less competitive.
"Despite a difficult business environment, we achieved stable profits in the second quarter through our differentiated products and competitive technology, " said Robert Yi, Senior Vice President and Head of Investor Relations.
Alongside the debt-reduction efforts that governments are pursuing across the eurozone, the region's exporters are also having to contend with a currency that has been rallying on foreign exchange markets, potentially making their products less competitive in the international marketplace.
This has added to the woes of European companies by making their products less internationally competitive.
This is unlikely to result in a competitive line-up of products.
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Wahaha has established its own production plants and processing factories in the major fruit growing areas to ensure the quality of juice products and a competitive retail price.
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