Sentence examples similar to bread and butter industry from inspiring English sources

Siemens said growth was driven by its bread-and-butter industry sector, which makes machine tools that large companies use to equip factories, automation gear to help industrial plants run smoothly and LED lightbulbs that cut luxury cars' energy bills.

We target sole proprietors with one or no employees that operate in traditional, bread-and-butter industries — i.e., beauty salons, cleaning services, caterers — that are not capital-intensive or ultracompetitive.

It is my bread and butter, an industry that has been kind to me.

Warner believes that these windows are going to allow them to sell more DVDs, long the bread-and-butter of the movie industry which is now in rapid decline.

As more and more Americans purchase their first or even their second computer, many are opting for cheap models that are sufficient for such basic operations as word-processing, sending E-mail and going online tasks that do not require the $1,500-plus machines that have been the bread-and-butter of the PC industry.

Some of the big prestige developments – such as the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa – have been completed or are still in progress but the bread-and-butter projects of the construction industry have been shut down.

Mr. Ding started out as an engineer at Huawei, honing designs for telephone switches, the industry's bread-and-butter hardware at the time.

"Licensing is by and far the bread and butter of the industry now," says Angus Livingstone, Managing Director of the University-Industry Liaison Office at UBC. "About 95% of our deals are licensing with existing companies".

These bread-and-butter effects are everywhere.

And good bread-and-butter pudding too.

Visual puns are his bread-and-butter.