Sentence examples for industry milestone from inspiring English sources

If United follows through, as its unions and industry analysts expect, it would be an industry milestone and a remarkable step for a company that was owned by its employees 20 months ago.

Pfizer's strategy has been so successful that the company expects to set an industry milestone this year -- eight drugs that bring in sales of more than $1 billion each.

During early 2000, AMD was the first of the two to launch a chip with a clock speed of 1,000 megahertz, or 1 gigahertz, a sort of industry milestone.

Each IPO above has been newsworthy and an industry milestone in its own right, but each has fallen short of the Netscape yardstick.

The establishment of this relationship is a major industry milestone, which will help shape the emerging payments landscape by bringing together an established direct banking and payments company with a leading commerce enabler to create an alternative payments option for consumers at the point of sale," said Diane Offereins, President of Discover Payment Services in a release.

"Bringing this solution to market on the heels of our 3TB GoFlex™ Desk drive and the Momentus® XT solid state hybrid drive is proof of Seagate's continuing technology leadership and tradition of setting storage industry milestones".

Special sections that celebrated industry milestones (and of course, awards season), went from incidental to ubiquitous.

BRITAIN'S growing radio industry passed another milestone this week.

Last month, the industry celebrated another milestone: the money under hedge fund control surpassed $2 trillion, a record.

Nokia also pushed forward, by about six months, a couple of milestone industry forecasts, saying that it would achieve one billion customers by the first half of 2002 and that the number of Internet-enabled mobile phones would exceed the number of personal computers by 2003.

The company described the £6.6bn deal as a milestone, but industry analysts thought they had overpaid for Corus – a descendant of British Steel.