Efish, the work of local product designer Shin Nishibori, is entirely in the present.
Payroll can make up more than a third of production costs, says Jason Katz, chief operating officer of Local Product of Colorado.
Google has its own local product and its own offers product.
An international business faced with a semiglobal market environment where consumers derive value from a bundle of global and local product characteristics must harmonize its strategy.
Increased availability of information about local product inventory, coupled with smartphone access and location data, is helping retailers forge new customer relationships and bring unprecedented relevance to consumer messaging.
Although China has been building domestic polysilicon manufacturing capacity, the local product is still lacking in terms of quality and many panel manufacturers such as Yingli Green Energy continue to rely on imports.
It is easy to think of Michael Jordan and Nike as an example but even New York Mets third baseman, David Wright, scored multimillion dollar windfall when Coca-Cola purchased Vitamin Water, which had given Wright equity in exchange for endorsing the beverage, then a small local product made just down the road from Shea Stadium.
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What really matters is total world consumption, the sum of all local consumptions, which is the product of local population times the local per capita consumption rate.
Beverage maker Diageo mixes global drinks with local drinks and liquors to create product offerings that cater to local markets.
In product after product, local companies in China are gaining market share at the expense of their international competitors.
European and American consumers will be able to buy the product in local supermarkets and contribute to the positive branding of the country.
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At Barron's Bakery in Cappoquin I tasted "blaas, " plump rolls now on their way to gaining PGI status, a European Union certification that a product is local, authentic and skillfully made.
Attitudes became considerably more positive after we arrived in Milwaukee and discovered that its school voucher and choice programs were the product of local African-American parents and educators fed up with failing schools.
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But since EarthLink will have to cover the additional cost of leasing local lines, the product is likely to be more expensive than the more traditional VoIP services offered by cable companies such as Comcast (nyse: CMCSA - news - people ) Internet voice vendors such as Vonage , and EarthLink itself.
Coupal has become a popular place for local entrepreneurs to test a product.
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Since travelers using Airbnb are often looking for unique local experiences, the new product will help them find those places.
The Department of Health has also asked all local authorities to ensure the product is removed from sale and destroyed.
The easier you make it for local businesses to adopt your product, the less costly it will be to service them.
Best Buy ( BBY - news - people ) to offer real-time inventory information about product availability at local stores.
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Webster says he's seen a number of productivity applications, such as a shopping service that scans bar codes with the phone's camera and supplies comparative pricing, product reviews and local store information.
Inviting wine distributor principals from around the country to tour Memphis during the festivities, Gnarly Head also encouraged these sales teams to push their product and invited local businesses to do the same.
Have you ever walked down the baby product aisle at your local grocery store?
Food Minister David Heath said there was not a strong enough local link to the popular pork product.
But if the court sides with Costco, it will undermine the whole concept of price discrimination, in which companies determine the best price for a product given what a local market is willing to pay.
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So he is spending money to improve customer service, make the stores friendlier, and tailor the product range to what local people say they want (via the data they provide in their use of loyalty cards).
Agricultural irrigation along with cattle feed lots located near the plants to take advantage of the co-product distillers grain add to local water demands.
The new facility is its largest center for cookie research and development in Asia, and its output will allow Kraft to create new product platforms tailored to suit local tastes.
Start-ups such as Groupon have popularized daily deal, by sending a single email to customers each day with a deal of 50% or more off a product or service at a local business.
Food inspectors in the Czech city of Brno recently discovered horse DNA in product offered for sale at the local IKEA store.
Using a Web-based cloud infrastructure analogous to the one designed for consumers, enterprises can manage their workflows, assemble their print jobs, and ship them electronically to a local service provider, which delivers the final product.
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