The international energy technology market is brutal and competitive.

Consider a struggling firm that is trying to improve its competitive position.

87. The shipping market is highly competitive, but crucially dependent on market intelligence about ship availability and cargo specifications.

The scheduled implementation date for the competitive electricity market is 1 July 1995.

It changes your initial market size, how much it cost to enter the market, what kind of launch you do with your product, it affects the type of competitive barriers you have, and how you position or describe your product.

The Norwegian Competition Authority successfully used this procedure to ensure that the market remained competitive.

Many small producers are not competitive and are handicapped in doing business and meeting market exigencies.

Given the disadvantaged position of developing country suppliers in terms of capital, management techniques and access to technology, local distributors are in a weak competitive position.

This in turn should help SMEs in those countries to become more competitive in the global market.

Small and vulnerable economies must not be abandoned to their fate in the current highly competitive market.

The move to a competitive market will allow a range of specific energy benefits to be realised.

Position in the employment market of persons aged 15 64, by origin

Eli Lilly in, again, the fiercely competitive pharmaceutical world has created a market for solutions for pharmaceutical problems.

Client relations and marketing UNOPS services assume critical importance for a multiple service line provider in a competitive market.

In theory, import subsidies could be as efficient as market access preferences in remedying the competitive disadvantage of LDCs.

They nevertheless retain the responsibility to provide a regulatory framework for the effective operation of a competitive market system.

PSD will invest in building strategically important market and competitive knowledge through market research and ensure that internal decision making is more than ever supported by this knowledge.

These activities will aim at the improvement of their marketing systems and the product and market development efforts of developing countries apos exporters of processed and unprocessed commodities and at the strengthening of their competitive position on international markets.

(a) Enhance and support competitive productive capacities able to produce according to market requirements in terms of quality and quantity

Market dominant banks still extract hefty fees on debit and credit card transactions from merchants, who are forced to pay a multiple of what a truly competitive market would bear.

According to the Labour Market Service Act, employers are paid labour market service subsidy through the employment office if the employer employs an unemployed person with a lower competitive ability.

Finally, South Africa, with its world class banking sector and internationally competitive construction companies, can supply services to the Chinese market.

This means that, in a competitive labor market, real wages will always be instantly adjusted to changes in conditions of demand.

Market oriented reform, by leveling the competitive playing field, would hurt their interests and reduce their privileges, making fierce opposition likely.

What implications does this have for market structure? Concentration in well defined deposit and loan markets is linked with competitive pressure.

The merged company would have had a very strong position in the drilling equipment market.

The challenge is that the rise of online shopping will increase competitive pressure, regardless of whether big foreign retailers enter the market.

In today s hyper competitive global economy, there is no reliable third way for countries to avoid continued liberalization and market oriented reforms.

Competitive advantage is a firm s ability to do something better, faster, cheaper, or uniquely, when compared with rival firms in the market.

Some technologies are already mature and economically competitive, while others need only minor additional development steps to become ready for the market.

(b) In most cases examined, below 100,000, where the requirement exists for competitive quotations or bidding, only minimal market testing had occurred.

Despite the parlous fiscal position, for now the market for Japanese government bonds (JGBs) remains stable.

It's competitive.

A strong relation should be noted between women's role, education, occupation and position in the labour market.

Many times, we use products either men or women, to improve our position in the mating market.

The Single Market Acts I II provide a comprehensive agenda to tap fully the potential of an integrated and competitive market of 500 million consumers to catalyze growth and prosperity in the European Union.

In a perfectly competitive market, with full information, models of the market show that all the factors of production receive rewards equal to their marginal products, i.e., all are paid what they are worth.

Steinhoff is dominant in the neighbouring South African market and might abuse that position dominance in the Zimbabwean market by undercutting prices or becoming a price leader.

This fact, in itself, cannot be taken as definitive evidence of the presence of anti competitive practices in the market for international Internet connectivity.

However, some less competitive exporters are facing adjustment issues consequent to quota elimination and require assistance to improve their market access and supply capacity.

National competitive examinations

Even in the case of other developing markets, it is important that vigilance be exercised so that market structures do no evolve in a direction in which powerful market players can engage in anti competitive behaviour.

Network Solutions retained control of the .com registry, whereas we created a competitive market for the reseller business whereby registrars sold names directly to users.

However, developing countries can only convert their competitive advantage into increased market shares if markets function in a way that is not impeded by distortions.

Yet, negotiations under agriculture and non agricultural market access have proved controversial owing to differing interests between preference dependent countries and other competitive exporting countries.