In South China, Connor's watchdogs scrutinized 337 potential first-time suppliers and flunked 97 of them.
"This is the first time the suppliers have come up with brands that are related to selling ugly produce".
By contrast, CCC21 was more strongly geared towards market competition by identifying about 180 key parts that were benchmarked with parts prices for the world's most competitive suppliers of those parts – which for the first time also included suppliers in India and China (Chappell 2008).
For the first time, Toyota group suppliers were facing serious competition with foreign global suppliers (Okamura 2005).
Chrysler's business model may be innovative, but it's not the first time an auto supplier invested capital in a manufacturer.
Aggreko believes that this is the first time a temporary power supplier has entered a country's wholesale-electricity market competing with permanent generators.
The agreement is billed by the companies as the first time a major Hollywood supplier has chosen Web streaming over pay television.
The Netflix accord, which analysts estimate is worth $30 million per picture to DreamWorks over an unspecified period of years, is billed by the companies as the first time a major Hollywood supplier has chosen Web streaming over pay television.
Lear For the first time, GM is entrusting a supplier, Lear, with responsibility for designing, engineering and making the most important part of a car the soup-to-nuts interiors of its 2006 Cadillac DeVille and Buick LeSabre.
In January, Apple publicly released the names of many of its suppliers for the first time.
"Pricing power will swing back to air and hotel suppliers for the first time in two years in 2011".
