… health benefits, its taste, its beauty. Illy also has a dream that someday soon the coffee market might be transformed into something approaching the market for wine. Where connoisseurs discuss the fine points of various origin coffees and … fairly for the expertise they contribute to every cup. Unfortunately, the current coffee market differs from such an ideal. Coffee growers in most parts of the globe work at a …
… and chairman, wondered how his company could expand its presence in the United States market. In the previous five years, Trina, a company with manufacturing and headquarters in … and Suntech Power, in supplying modules to the United States. Gao had targeted the U.S. market in 2010, and Trina had increased its sales in the country during 2009. But other … was willing to invest in its efforts to grow in the U.S. In Europe, the supply-constrained market during 2007-10 had allowed Trina to quickly establish strong relationships with some …
… conference also left in doubt the future of current mechanisms such as the European Carbon Market. The conference in Copenhagen came after 20 years of international conferences and … firms like Climate Change Capital (CCC) of London taking the lead in shaping the nascent market. Even though the EU was the only group of nations to create a formal mechanism for distributing and requiring carbon allowances, the carbon market grew quickly and was valued at $64 billion by the World Bank at the end of 2007. …
… the truck bed and cab. Starting with the 2015 model year, the F-150 would be the first mass-market vehicle to be built with major body construction from aluminum. Alcoa spent $300 … alloys to compete with aluminum. Meanwhile, manufacturers of carbon-fiber based composites were touting their material as even lighter than aluminum and just as strong. Plastics … at Alcoa and other aluminum manufacturers faced a difficult challenge to forecast the potential size of the market for aluminum in the auto industry. Would other U.S. automakers …
… only in the past few decades that this tropical product has taken off in the international market. An invisible component of many products, palm oil can be found in cookies, in … GAR customer, Nestlé, with a report and a provocative video that went viral on social media sites. Nestlé quickly bowed to the demands of Greenpeace and dropped GAR as a supplier. … GAR customer, Nestlé, with a report and a provocative video that went viral on social media sites. Nestlé quickly bowed to the demands of Greenpeace and dropped GAR as a supplier. …
… three-and-a-half years on the international stage. By the end of 2007, the company was the market leader in Asia and had completed projects in fourteen countries across five … believed these first years were just a warm-up for what was to come (the company’s market capitalization had doubled since its IPO in 2005). Global demand for wind energy … Tanti hired a Dane, Per Hornung Pedersen, to lead Suzlon’s entrance into the global wind market. It had been an opportune time to enter the international wind energy business. The …
… Rather than spend research dollars, many other manufacturers had bowed out of the diesel market, leaving Cummins with a major market opportunity. Given its heavy R&D expense, Cummins had to find ways to spread the development costs over more units, leading it to expansion into global markets. Cummins had found a business advantage in its early entry into China – first …
… has occurred largely in the last 20 years (see graph below) – which has meant that as the market has grown quickly, producers have scrambled to generate supply. Thus, even as palm … of government oversight and power. Given the global and local components of the palm oil market and its impacts, it is no surprise that the future of the industry is becoming an … Indonesia plays in producing palm oil, the drastic expansion of the Indonesian palm oil market, and the lessons that countries experimenting with palm oil can learn from …
… As the Connecticut Green Bank works to design high-impact programs for the solar market, it has supported the design and adoption of legislation that expanded the … Decision makers saw the state’s approach needed to be retooled to incentivize in-state market development. Solar-market demand was accelerating faster than incentives could fulfill it—even as falling …
… plan to grow the company. The plan called for harvesting slow-growing businesses in mature markets, investing in emerging markets, and reducing the company’s overall cost of operations. Under the strategy, AXA made … company became the leading foreign insurance provider in China and a player in the Indian market. By 2014, AXA employed 157,000 people across the globe, serviced over 100 million …