"Without imaginative branding these products would struggle to differentiate themselves and become mere commodities competing for market share primarily on price," Illsley adds.
They became commodities, competing with more novel products (like chili, tobacco, coffee and sugar), and they lost their aura of glamour and the exotic.
Booher said it was crucial for the government to find the balance between providing commodities in large quantities across the island and supporting the restoration of the local economy that sells the commodities, without competing with it.
(3) To issue licenses permitting processors, associations of producers, and others to engage in the handling, in the current of interstate or foreign commerce, of any agricultural commodity or product thereof, or any competing commodity or product thereof.
The permits are hot commodities for those competing for scooter market dominance, which includes Uber and Lyft, which applied for permits to operate e-scooters despite not yet having any.
As with uniform white loaves on supermarket shelves, differences among competing commodities were relatively small.
"They do rightly regard the output of their mills as a commodity that competes in a global marketplace where cost competitiveness is an absolute necessity," Mr. Jardini said.
HP has always played a dual role in enterprise computing, selling standardized commodity systems and competing with Dell on one hand, and selling more specialized systems, such as systems based on Intel 's Itanium chip which HP helped design on the other.
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Given the brand recognition of both companies and the fact that they're competing with commodities, the only differentiator is price and features.
Meles argued that Ethiopia, and indeed most of Africa, produced no commodities that could compete internationally, save minerals and a few boutique products such as high-grade coffee and cut flowers.
