Sentence examples for firm customer from inspiring English sources

Craig Johnson, president of the consulting firm Customer Growth Partners, said that the move made some sense.

"They're not only doing the small format more rapidly, but they're getting into the urban areas more rapidly than either Wal-Mart Express or the city Targets," said Craig Johnson, president of the consulting firm Customer Growth Partners.

While Wal-Mart cited economic pressures for the slow United States results, Craig Johnson, president of the consulting firm Customer Growth Partners, argued that competitors like the Aldi discount chain, dollar stores like Dollar General, Family Dollar and Dollar Tree, and Wal-Mart's own Sam's Club division all grew in the third quarter.

"In the face of 10 percent unemployment and persistent housing woes, the American consumer has single-handedly picked himself off the mat, brushed his troubles off and strapped the U.S. economy on his back," Craig R. Johnson, the president of the consulting firm Customer Growth Partners, wrote in an e-mail.

If a prospective online broker lacks the resources of a Merrill Lynch, it would look to buy a company that already has a firm customer base and is making moves to add more advice-giving and educational content.

Research firm Customer Growth Partners expects e-commerce, which represented 10% of holiday sales a year ago, to be a driving force behind a 4.5% industry-wide increase this year.

In all of them, says Sanjeev Sinha, a "business transformation officer" at the firm, customers have come to take cost-savings for granted.

Boeing has not even decided to build the jet, the 7E7, known as the Dreamliner, nor does it have any firm customers for it.

He introduced a bill in 1969 to create a Federal Broker-Dealer Insurance Corporathat that would insure brokerage firm customers against losses, as the F.D.I.C. does with bank depositors.

Mr. Klayman said that he thought it should not be up to the lawyers representing brokerage firm customers to track down undisclosed conflicts among arbitrators.

In addition, because the act that created the corporation covers only securities held by a failed brokerage firm, customers whose firms handle their trades through other brokerage firms may not have a claim for coverage by the corporation.