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"I think it's becoming less of a mass-market item and kind of a niche product that caters to a small but loyal following, " he said.

A key problem seems to be that many mass-market vitamins are vastly different from those found naturally in food or plants.

The company is still working hard to develop electric vehicles, but the day they become a mass-market product looks years away.

Instead, the free newspaper is an innovative response by a mass-market news organisation to the age of the smartphone.

The Nano, an iconic attempt to produce a reasonably priced car for India's mass market, is a good example.

Coffeehouses and teahouses have been with us for hundreds of years, but they had associations that did not seem conducive to a mass market.

Ford does boast one of the strongest new-product pipelines of any mass-market vehicle manufacturer over the next few years.

The mass market caters for a wide range of customers, producing ready-to-wear clothes in large quantities and standard sizes.

The company, best known for a plan to develop a mass-market electric car, has instead seen sales of its gasoline-powered cars surge.

It has said the costs of making vehicles that run only on electricity are still too high for the mass market.

However, any optical solution must be cost-effiency if it is to be applied to the mass market.

The service is expected to be a runaway hit turning into a mass market phenomenon by the end of 2003.

Alan Mulally, Ford's chief executive, wants to sell Volvo as part of a drive to focus on the company's core mass- market business.

When Apple introduced the PC in the early 1980s, for instance, it did not expect it to become a mass-market product.

HTC's rapid rise reflects the speed with which touchscreen-based smartphones have become a mass-market product in Europe and the US.

As serious concert music grew more difficult to understand. it became less capable of filling the needs of the mass market for music.

Still, with its coupe body style and highly polarizing looks, it's not likely to fill the mass-market role of a true core model.

Ready-to-wear clothes are a cross between haute couture and mass market.

This device is, at the moment, not a mass-market consumer item for most people; it's a toybox.

But by stepping out of the premium niche into the mass market, Apple should make up in volume what it loses on price.

And the company plans to offer a free, stripped down version of its web apps that will compete directly with Google's mass-market offering.

However, the high cost of batteries is a major barrier to turning electric vehicles into a mass market product.

The current market is one of the major trends from the mass market to mass customization, as well as segment the market changes.

Mass-market appeal hasn't been blended with soul like this since the heydays of Stevie Wonder and Steely Dan.

Google has another reason to be worried about Siri: It's the closest thing we have to a mass-market phone app.

The Weizmann Institute is currently looking for an appropriate partner to license the technology and manufacture it for the mass market.

With its new mass-market model, the company seeks to lift global sales to 1. 5 million vehicles 'as early as possible, ' Mr. Masuko said.

There was significant interest in the idea of reaching such a mass market on the same OS.

Mass-market tourism constitutes more than 50 percent, and now must evolve and become sustainable, he said.

Microsoft's price cut also heralds a new phase in the console wars as the company's move takes the Xbox 360 into the mass market.

The company has been driving down iPhone prices and selling them at Wal-Mart, making them far more accessible to the mass market.

As a mass-market, full-colour product, however, it has conspicuously failed to show up.

"The all-plastic version will be for mass-market products, while the gold version will be for luxury beauty products, " he said.

Next time you're at a mass market rack, take a moment and study the array of the graphic elements.

Mr. Ng expects a coming auction of a mass-market residential site to again show that the market is showing cautiousness.

"We see this as a mass market car, " he said.

Although used in a handful of exotic sports cars, carbon composites remain too costly for mass-market cars.

Smartphones are going mass market, fuelled by the public's "insatiable appetite" for social media, analysts say.

The sophisticated technology that sets luxury cars apart from humdrum, mass-market vehicles comes with a high degree of risk.

We've never been tempted by mass-market techniques because it's not part of our culture.

EDWARD GREEN: We learned at this stage that it was a low cost high volume mass market product.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks .

Long Tail business can treat consumers as individuals, offering mass customization as an alternative to mass-market fare.

Ads for mass-market cars are normally dull affairs, but Ford was recently named "Marketer of the Year" by Advertising Age, a trade magazine.

Even so, the numbers still looked surprisingly healthy for a company that sells premium goods to the mass market.

In a daring display, the fashionistas, who normally trade in exclusivity, have opened their hallowed halls to mass-market brands.

In contrast, Hanes, a mass-market clothes maker, is talking of raising prices by up to 30%.

There were reportedly still a few bugs at a recent demonstration; HERB is a long way from mass-market-ready.

The challenge. Australian Gold decided to extend its outdoor suncare products to the mass market this year.

Others that are joining the electric-vehicle movement recognize their mass-market potential may be limited.

The only problem is that Oblong's system is still too expensive for the mass market.

But while prices for clean stoves have dropped in recent years, they are not low enough to create a mass market.

In many cases, a product has been developed with the professional or college athlete in mind, and only later moved on to the mass market.

Overall, many mass-market car makers have been making little or no money in their European operations for years.

The most difficult step is to win over the so called early majority of the mass market.

The same mass-market Web browsers that accept a wide range of HTML-like inputs generally are quite strict when rendering SVG.

As companies come close to mass-market launches, opinions are flying fast and furious.

As with other triumphs of the mass market, they've reached a point when people forget what it was like before they existed.

But the Mac was not the swift, mass-market success that he had hoped for, and Mr Jobs was ousted from Apple by its board in 1985.

Basically, they put all of the mass market brands together and allowed the dealers to compete right on top of each other.

Still, China struggles with how to manage and protect the Wall as it promotes mass-market tourism.

Anyone who still had doubts about the dire state of Europe's mass-market car industry should now have seen them laid to rest.

Navigation systems often leverage lower quality GPS receivers to ensure their price point is ideal for the mass market.

Perhaps it was this improved technologyandsmart lookthathelped mobile phones break into the mass market, but the main factor is price.

Whether Japanese consumers will embrace mass-market imports remains to be seen, since there are few precedents.

Strasser, Susan. Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market. 1989.

Attractive, recalled 24-year-old Ghent University student Michael Arens, but were they built for a mass market?

Google no longer sells it on the mass market but offers the N1 as a testing phone for Android developers.

Schrager says that it was Marriott's expertise in mass-market hotel development that attracted him.

Music companies are hoping that MusicStation will help kick-start mass-market consumption of music over mobile phones.

We contribute to the definition of the products that the mass market will soon be using.

Individual needs are unlikely to be met by products aimed at mass market.

Of course, if the network computer becomes a high-volume, mass-market item, buyers will benefit from mass-market economies of scale.

But even the more mass market-focused resorts depend on high-rollers for almost half of their operating earnings.

'Luxury brands, by definition are not mass market products, ' said Thomas Isaac, commercial director at TNS.

We try to make our games so the mass market can play it, but the really hardcore can still find something.

Apple is not for the mass market but the tech geeks and elites who don't care about the lack of China-specific content.

Research productivity and approval rates for mass-market drugs aimed at rich consumers are falling (see chart).

Sacconaghi considers the expensive contracts as "the biggest gating factor to mass market adoption. "

Other mass-market companies are making a similar push toward more-affluent customers.

History shows that mass-market acceptance of wireless products requires a worldwide standard.

Schultz sought, admirably, to bring good coffee and the Italian coffeehouse experience to the American mass market.

Without subsidies, TD-SCDMA handsets are unlikely to become a mass market phenomenon.

That probably meant he had read Germany's mass-market Bild newspaper, which warned of looming inflation.

But China's price-sensitive mass market produces thin profit margins compared with many other countries.

Web publications serve every conceivable audience, from the mass market to obscure niche groups.

For tablets to become a mass-market product like DVD players, analysts reckon, the price must fall to $100 at most.

For Chan, this mass market system does not affect the high quality of luxury goods.

This acidic, vitamin-rich fruit appears in face and body care in both mass-market and selective distribution.

There's some distance left before Linux becomes a popular replacement for the mass market.

The resilience of these high-end brands contrasts with the fate of more mass-market products such as skin creams and makeup.

The internet is barely more than a decade old as a mass market phenomenon.

Yu brand of imported wines represent a collection of fine wines tailored for the mass market.

They're also moving away from the mass market and the preoccupation with the transaction.

Now that luxury has gone mass market, how are the super-rich to flaunt their wealth?

Mass market designers generally adapt the trends set by the famous names in fashion.

Refrigerators and washing machines turned into mass-market products.

Fanny: Very true indeed! So you see a lot of mass-market brands inviting top designers to work for them.

To become a major fruit of the vertical, it is necessary to mass market, the market segment.

Game Theory at Work is more accessible than a textbook, but perhaps more challenging to read than the typical mass-market book.

Even mass-market food retailers and fast-food chains have shown signs of moderation since mid-October.

The Total War games have always bridged the world of hard core wargames and the PC mass-market.

It is also proving more imaginative than China when it comes to radically redesigning products for the mass market.

New goods would still be given a tiny weight in the calculations until they became mass-market products.

There is no way to design a product for the American mass market and then simply adapt it for the Chinese or Indian mass market.

That's why there haven't been many widely popular open-source products for mass-market computer users.

This lore has mostly been forgotten, the connections cut, in modern mass-market America.

With sales of more than $50bn, Apple has had to look to the mass market.

Chevrolet, catering to the mass market, is number three in US sales behind Toyota and Ford.

The most innovative thing about the Galaxy Tab is that Samsung was the first vendor to finally bring an Android tablet to the mass market.

Casinos would ignore the junkets if they could: operating profit margins in the mass-market segment are about three times higher.

Most of those sales are within the mass market.

Most mobile operators and handset-makers are searching for a platform for their mass-market phones of the future.

The two companies will jointly work on a plan to bring carbon ceramic disc brakes to the mass market.

"The mass market is for local buyers and there is a luxury market for investors, mainly from mainland China. "

Perhaps above all, it is a lot cheaper, starting at $199, just below what the industry sees as the pain threshold for the mass market.

The Sands will, however, open a 238-room expansion later this year that will target both VIP and mass-market punters.

HSBC is sticking with well-off customers but has gone off mass-market consumer finance.

If mass market software has very, very good encryption, then it just makes their job dramatically harder.

Sorry Linux fan-boys, there goes your bridgehead into the mass market.

Now the big car firms are pushing all-electric cars for the mass market.

Mass-market advertising, he says, will become "extinct" .

HERB is a long way from mass-market-ready. But it's one step closer to the Jetsons' Rosie.

Carrefour comes second only to Wal-Mart in size as a mass-market retailer.

Middle-class parents bought full Halloween getups at mass-market stores for the family.

The high end products normally are tested more frequently and more comprehensively than mass-market or low-end products.

Brand loyalty is much higher among luxury car buyers than for mass-market brands.

Twelve years ago, the Toyota Prius broke new ground as the first mass-market hybrid car.

The casino, the first to cater to mass-market Chinese gamblers, paid for itself in eight months.

Would it be that they want to get it for the mass market at very cheap products?

Partly because of their clientele, partly because supermarkets are mass-market enterprises, they tend to stock mainstream fare.

Currently the fashion industry relies more on mass market sales.

What are your thoughts on taking technology to the mass market today?

Mass market building capacity expanding of China textile city.

For leveraging its battery know-how to become a leader in making electric cars for the mass market.

Even if the market turns south, the luxury sector will be more resilient and the likely correction will be smaller than in the mass market.

In Europe, mass market commercial 3G services were introduced starting in March 2003 by 3 (Part of Hutchison Whampoa) in the UK and Italy.

U. S. authorities said they want to prevent any overcharging by the global giants that dominate mass-market brews.

Mass-market music, though, gets due attention.

However, China's car boom is shaping some mass-market models, too.

They only publish novels which cater to the mass-market.

We just bought a factory in Delaware where we'll produce our next car: a $40, 000 model aimed at the mass market.

Their latest product is aimed at the mass market.

What do you feel western consumer packaged goods companies selling to China's mass market should consider in their branding?

But because they're tailored for the mass market, some of them have gained considerable traction.

Another element in the equation is the pressure to write for the mass market.

It will be released as a mass market paperback by Pinnacle Books in June 2002.

The first mass-market electric cars are arriving in showrooms. They represent a big gamble for carmakers.

The pretty new sports car envisaged now, codenamed P11, will be virtually a mass-market offering, in supercar terms.

One answer may be that a mass market has made itself felt only recently.

In the mass market, they accounted for just 13 per cent of first-half purchases.

Even " mass market " residential apartments in the suburbs cost about $ 300, 000 .

At $99, the wired version is aimed at making 3D more affordable for mass market gamers.

Even so, the VIP market grew by 48 per cent in the first quarter, much faster than the mass market.

68 Other distribution channels you can sell through in addition to mass market retailers.

For mass-market drinks firms, the opportunities, such as they are, lie in the developing world.

They wanted some better way to tap oil for the mass market.

This will be caused by the introduction of the first mass-market (or so their manufacturers hope) electric saloon cars in America and Japan.

What Firefoxdemonstrated, however, is that the mass market was willing to embrace some kindof change.

But since the mass market in the United States still prefers terry, these waffle weave towels are currently sold only in Japan.

BYD plans to mass-market its e6 electric car, which can travel 300 kilometers on a single full charge, by 2009.

The first mass-market electric cars are now arriving in showrooms in America, Europe and Japan (see table).

But for the Japanese, outsourcing their mass market TV production makes sense because it is hard for them to beat the Taiwanese on cost.

So will mass-market law firms, which will make use of outsourcing.

In the current economy, more and more shoppers are turning to mass market outlets for their personal care products.

More users means lower cost, as products and technology catch on in the mass market.

There are many other Fast Ethernet cabling specifications than 100BASE-TX over cat 5 UTP, but only 100BASE-TX became a mass market product.

But the Chinese car boom is shaping the look of some mass-market cars too.

This is the real mass market, and the iPad is an ideal device for them.

This is where we can see illustration in a different context with measurable results, proving that illustration can work in the mass market.

And Nokia will henceforth have just two distinct businesses: smartphones and mass-market mobiles.

Honda unveiled its CR-Z model in Japan roughly a month ago, making it the first mass-market hybrid sports car to hit dealerships.

Slide 11: Conclusions: Is this product worth developing for the mass market?

Put in place and keep high efficiency of a "mass" market and sales system by exploring all sales channels

Part I: The Rise of a Mass Market at the Turn of the Century

From athletes how special shoes market expansion of the average consumer mass market;

Mass-market apartment prices in Hong Kong soared about 30% last year.

Mass-market retailing has changed the publishing industry:

Mass-market distribution leverage (which is needed to win the shelf-space wars in this industry)

The Mass Market of High-Quality Goods of the Cultural Media and the Government Supply Efficiency

Mass-market retailing changed publishing before the e-book

One niche that is approaching mass-market proportions is held by regional magazines. (Brad Edmondson)