"Books are a flat business," Gunter Thielen says.
As a cable and broadband provider, Comcast foresees Hispanics driving growth in new cable subscriptions, an otherwise mostly flat business.
Disproportionately large consumers of media and technology, Hispanics are driving growth in new cable and satellite subscriptions, which is an otherwise mostly flat business.
The Bank of England's summary of business conditions, based on reports from regional agents, said "investment intentions had fallen since the EU referendum" and pointed to "broadly flat business investment over the next year".
Although many consider the idea of reading on a screen awkward and far-fetched, some publishers hope that electronic books will provide a new avenue of growth in an otherwise nearly flat business, just as first paperbacks and then audio books did in the past.
Radio, for instance, is a flat business but a big one, with more than $20 billion a year in ad revenue.
Those who sell ski merchandise internationally covet China as the one growth market in an otherwise flat business terrain.
It allows a flat business model across the electrical industry and minimizes the amount of the data, which needs to be exchanged.
The only thing I know for sure is continuing the path that most pharma is on will lead to a continued flat business (and stock price).
In Pharma, it's important to ask What Can Pharma Learn from the Railroads and IBM, — namely that they need to reinvent themselves or their business will remain a slow growth or flat business.
