Sentence examples for industry contraction from inspiring English sources

Senior industry sources say they will push for financial compensation and access to balancing markets to help prevent a significant industry contraction, if priority dispatch is ended.

The chief executive of Vranken-Pommery Monopole, the world's third-biggest maker of Champagne, said the French company was skirting an industry contraction by selling cheaper bubbly than larger competitors.

In the latest sign of industry contraction, Seagate Technology on Tuesday announced it would acquire the disk-drive business of Samsung Electronics for $1.375 billion in cash and stock.

The Lavi crisis and the country's late-1980s defense industry contraction opened the floodgates for the technology now pouring out of Israel.

Back then, the lower commission structure forced a major industry contraction, leading to a new crop of specialized investment banking, brokerage and research boutiques, like Forstmann Little & Co., Gabelli & Co., A. Gary Shilling & Co., Montgomery Securities and a host of others.

Regional newspapers have long played a key role in holding local political leaders accountable, a responsibility many fear could be lost amid industry contraction and downsized newsrooms.

Mindful of the music industry's contraction after the collapse of compact disc sales, Hollywood is frantically trying to develop new sources of home entertainment revenue.

The industry's contraction follows several years of sustained growth — with a few hiccups during the downturn — that has helped wind power edge closer to the cost of electricity from conventional fuels.

The Paradigm deal could now include easy access to similar film, TV and marketing relationships that could fill the gaps left behind by the record industry's contraction, and help re-define the role of the live musician in pop culture.

Competition from trade in particular, which will ultimately lead to the expansion of some industries, and contraction of others, is likely to leave those workers in the declining industries with even less options and hence bargaining power (Berik et al. 2004).

Five industries reported contraction, including wood producers and chemical makers.