Posts Tagged ‘market share’

Retail wars - grocery shopping

Thursday, March 19, 2009 0:22 2 Comments

In Finland we have very few retail chains that dominate the market especially in the segment of groceries. We have two equally strong competitors, which share about 90% of the market share. Competition is in deadlock, neither side wants to erode profitability by lowering prices. Homogenic Finnish population likes to eat potatoes and beef, so [...]

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Hopeless sales gamble

Friday, February 20, 2009 0:00 1 Comment

Today I had a discussion with one of our sales reps. He had suddenly gotten an inquiry from abroad. It was a person familiar to him and they had even done some business before.
THE CATCH
Sounds like a fairly sellable situation, right? Well, this rep rakes in just about two million euros per year and the [...]

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When you lose your strength

Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:59 No Comments

Gadling travel blog has an interesting piece about Dubai’s rise and fall. This is a good read for people who are heavily banking on certain market segment or specific product. What happens if your strength is strength no more?

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Market changes

Saturday, February 14, 2009 20:18 1 Comment

More like market shakes that much drastic were changes in video game console markets during year 2008. Nintendo Wii came out of nowhere and cleaned the table with their sales success. Previous winners had to give way and they too swapped positions. Great analysis on this at Ars Technica. I recommend highly, you might learn [...]

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