The phrase "first-rate products" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe high-quality items or goods that are considered to be among the best in their category.
Example: "Our company is known for offering first-rate products that meet the highest standards of quality and performance."
Alternatives: "top-quality products" or "premium products."
Less competition would mean less choice for states and localities looking to buy and service voting machines — and even less incentive for industry to produce first-rate products.
Even if genuine Louis Vuitton bags are first-rate products, market saturation can lead to a dimming of star power.
In September 2011, in a piece called 'The invasion of the mobile apps', Gary Anthes worded the consequences strikingly: "Today, a stroll through the app stores is a little like visiting an urban flea market, where there are first-rate products but where low-price goods of dubious value abound, and support is practically nonexistent".
On top of creating a first-rate product, Scharffen Berger kick-started a movement.
Saturday night's free-to-air telecast of the All-Star game also confirmed that it is a first-rate product, enjoying a peak audience of 1.05m viewers on Channel 7 and 7mate and drawing an average Melbourne television audience of 387,000, besting the season's previous benchmark Saturday night figure by 40,000.
A first-rate product innovator, the company has posted a low double-digit earnings growth record for several decades and is likely to do so again this year and in 2004.
While there is much reverence shown to the sushi chef who serves only twenty people each night after buying only a few pounds of the first-rate product, a chef like Blue Water Grill's Chris Meenan has the commitment and the cash to buy a great deal more of what's best in the market and to prepare it with integrity.
Of course, he was one of the pioneers of a movement that brought such cuisine out of the doldrums of a time when first-rate product was difficult for chefs to find, even in the NYC market (it remains so in most of the U.S).
("The only problem with Microsoft," he said, "is they just have no taste". Also: "They just make really third-rate products").
That commendable bias leaves the back door open for scruffy newcomers to introduce second- or third-rate products that satisfy marginal customers more interested in low prices than cutting-edge performance.
Will Vista be one of those third-rate products?
