As these local companies gain scale in China, they inevitably set their sights globally.
It has enabled Qualcomm, says Kvaal, to gain scale and better compete in price.
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Some of the hopefuls are struggling to gain scale and cope with a crushing amount of spam.
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As they gain scale, big chains are also opening modern distribution centres.
It would gain scale efficiencies, such as the elimination of duplicated satellite transmissions by two separate firms, thereby freeing up spectrum for beaming down other channels and services.
Meanwhile Fiat Auto, which will remain in the holding company, will be free to gain scale from mergers or partnerships with other car firms and to raise capital.
In some cases the state actively promotes industrial concentration, to help firms gain the scale to compete abroad.
China Unicom will gain in scale as well by merging with China Netcom, long a bit player in the expanding Chinese mobile industry.
Many startups only recently entered the market and need to gain manufacturing scale to lower their production costs, or else they will never be competitive, Mehta said.
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Elizabeth Arden took a fragmented fragrance industry and centralized it to gain economies of scale in distribution.
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As more Americans and their employers have dropped medical benefits over the years, health insurance companies have merged to gain economies of scale.
The point being that the cloud supplier can hire all the great engineers, gain economies of scale in hardware and bandwidth and so on.
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Pay attention to the resources on which you rely, invest to gain advantages of scale, operate with a tight focus on your goals and you should succeed.
"The principal motivation and the primary competitive justification for BP-Amoco and Exxon-Mobil is to gain the necessary scale to undertake larger and riskier global exploration and development projects that become available, " says Philip K. Verleger Jr.
Economics 101 tells us that this is exactly the type of industry in which the banks could gain economies of scale and create tremendous value by consolidation around open industry standards and a common technology platform.
Part of the growth has been driven by demand caused by everything from anthrax to bird flu to SARS. But much of it has come from 48-year-old Lim's gutsy push to ramp up quickly and cost effectively in a low-tech commodity business to gain economies of scale and an edge over his dozens of rivals.
The retail revolution will also offer the best banks the opportunity to gain new economies of scale through their IT platforms.
Amazon could build on this platform, and -who knows- maybe they will catch up to Apple as they gain more supply chain scale and expertise.
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In fact, what is the ROI outlook on Wal-Mart as it remodels stores in price competitive international markets and tries to gain greater economies of scale overseas?
Because European services companies operate behind national barriers they innovate less and they tend not to gain the full economies of scale.
The dynamics are a bit involved but in short export industries will tend to be folks who gain from increasing returns to scale.
But there is no technological gain to dramatic increases in scale.
By collaborating with other organizations, OceanElders can provide advice, guidance, and potentially, the tipping point needed to gain media attention and wide-scale awareness.
Technopak is advising groups of small shopkeepers in various places on how to get together and gain at least some advantage of scale in purchasing and marketing.
In order to gain a clear insight into the scale of the global problem, the FAO has established the International Pollinators Initiative, which includes a project involving seven nations (India is among them) with the aim of identifying practices and building capacity in the management of pollination services.
Your company will have exclusive access to the ad unit on every profile page, making it incredibly easy to gain a voice in these interactions at scale.
They leave their mark on bridges and underpasses, invade abandoned buildings to gain access to the top floors and scale skyscrapers by climbing from one window frame to another.
Meanwhile, the Italian government is at last awakening to the scale of the dodgy manoeuvres to gain control of Antonveneta.
When parties trade of their own volition, by mutual consent and to mutual advantage, both expect to gain and both should, assuming an honest scale.
Companies stand to gain much more by expanding such investments to include community-scale sustainable energy innovations like Tapergie.
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