Sentence examples for commodity industry from inspiring English sources

Steel is essentially a straightforward commodity industry: the companies compete on price.

Harry was a visionary and a leader in his 48 year career in the commodity industry.

Don't just presume that because everyone says "we are in a commodity industry" that this is necessarily a hard fact.

Coffee was considered a commodity industry, marked by heavy price-cutting and an ongoing battle for market share.

Where the authors of "The Coffee Book" see the evils of globalisation, he sees a mostly benign modernisation of a commodity industry.

The Mississippi River areas that were flooded include two million to more than three million acres of farmland and pasture, said Michael Cordonnier, a consultant with the Soybean and Corn Advisor, an information service for the commodity industry.

But it's not just commodity industries that show a long-term trend away from concentration.

He argues that if an industry has more than six firms, as many commodity industries now do, perfect competition prevails.

He has been focusing on the semiconductor area and on commodity industries like energy and gold mining.

Distillation has a particularly high potential for energy savings, as it accounts for around 40 70% of capital and operating costs in petrochemical and commodity industries.

But that goal conflicts with price pressures in commodity industries like toys, where manufacturers command no premium for good labor practices.