It has become clear to this high powered committee that to build a robust and thriving local economy it must talk to its customers first.
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"We want to open doors to new clients that say, 'I would love to have a Ferrari but I don't see one that fits my practical necessities, " says Mr. Montezemolo, who estimates at least 40% of its FF customers are first-time Ferrari buyers.
The first gimmick was hatched out of desperation: The store wasn't attracting customers in its first months, so Rothman scrawled "Business Stinks Sale" on some old bedsheets and attached them to the front of the tiny store.
If you started your venture, built its first product, and convinced customers to use it, you have performed a valuable service.
Rockwell Automation, which makes machinery and software for mostly industrial customers, said Wednesday that its first-quarter sales in Asia dropped 16 percent compared with the same period a year earlier.
Customers purchased 4M iPhone 4S on its first weekend debut.
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It has moved fastest in Mumbai, where it has laid 150 km of fibre-optic cable and is now offering speedy Internet access to the first of its 1.9m customers in the city.
At first, Chase mailed letters to its qualifying customers asking them to call the bank to discuss the modification.
Tesco is the first retailer in the UK to reward its customers with their own online movie and TV service.
In its first four months Digicel bagged 600, 000 customers and is narrowing the gap now with the state in market share.
Those two countries are where Better Place has launched its first two networks of switch stations that let customers swap out depleted batteries in their Renault Fluence Z.
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First, why can't SSE subsidise its customers from profits made in other parts of the business?
At Tidemark, founder Christian Gheorghe has installed the first versions of its business analytics software with pilot customers.
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Pet ownership is not well established in Asia, and Qian Hu has put a good deal of energy into educating its customers and investors about why people might want pets in the first place.
If it focuses on appealing to those customers now for all the reasons they became customers in the first place, RIM can have its own Apple moment, reasserting dominance in a very significant market sector.
Reportedly, Sky is set to broadcast America's most-watched sporting event to its customers in crisp high definition, which would make it the first major US-centric sporting event to be shown in such clarity by the company.
Two examples: a company starts up and makes losses for the first few years as it refines its technology, finds customers and so on.
On Tuesday, Amazon customers began receiving the first shipments of the next generation of its digital reading device, the Kindle 2.
Nevertheless, Fisker powered through and began deliveries of the first Karmas to customers in July of 2011, missing its launch date by a year and-a-half.
She points out that even global brands such as Starbucks, which recently opened its first branches in India, have had to adapt for Indian customers, serving up a tikka panini, while McDonald's offers a McAloo Tikki burger.
Its first attempt to clear a path was to get lots of new customers.
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However, by the first quarter of 2012, Verizon will push smartphone usage among its customers to 50%, according to Evercore calculations.
In Houston, where there are now 14 stores, the company is running its first TV commercials zoned to middle- and upper-income cable customers.
Interactive digital television has yet to arrive in India, so the first customers for the Internet over cable will be users of its 3m-4m computers.
It shipped its first product in 2006 and now has more than 3, 200 customers around the world, including Aetna, Visa, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo.
We can understand the impact of a reduction in sales for First Solar on its share price using the estimated shipments to its customers outside the U.S. and Germany.
These three telling examples, Facebook, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, demonstrate an entrenched Wall Street culture that neglects and takes advantage of its customers and always, and we mean always, will put its own interests first.
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We forecast that First Solar would ship more than 5, 000 megawatt to its international customers through our forecast period.
Pepco also lost 9 cents per share in the first half of the year from customers migrating to new competitors in its service territory.
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