Computer equipment and consumer electronics are among the most popular goods rejected by their first buyers.
Take Philips Electronics with its lighting, medical equipment, and consumer electronics divisions; ThyssenKrupp with its steel, elevators, and engineering services units; or smaller companies such as Trinity Mirror, which offers newspapers, printing, and digital services.
The company has been dumping its noncore businesses to focus on lighting, medical equipment and consumer electronics.
ENERGY STAR has expanded to cover new homes, most of the buildings sector, residential heating, and cooling equipment, major appliances, office equipment, lighting, and consumer electronics.
Bisphenol A (BPA), a compound widely used in industry, is present in polycarbonate plastics, epoxy resins, metal cans and water pipes, beverage and baby formula bottles, eyeglass lenses, toys, sports equipment, dental sealants, medical equipment and tubing, and consumer electronics (Vandenberg et al. 2007), making human exposure very prevalent.
Soon after music came DVDs and consumer electronics.
Carriers and consumer electronics companies take note.
Internet sales and consumer electronics were particularly strong.
In many of the categories above, including grocery, sports equipment and even consumer electronics, more than half of consumers want to visit a store at some point in their path to purchase.
We saw accelerated innovation being deployed in Chinese industries ranging from pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and information technology to medical and industrial equipment, consumer electronics and e-business.
The findings and goals of Made in America are based on such measures of productivity performance as product quality, innovativeness, time to market, and service in eight manufacturing sectors - semiconductors, computers, and office equipment; automobiles; steel; consumer electronics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals; textiles; machine tools; and commercial aircraft.
