It's a labor-intensive, capital-intensive, largely commodity-type business.
Cisco figures it can bundle blade servers with its routers because the servers are largely commodity hardware, anyway.
In that largely commodity business, Chuang insists Petra has an edge: "For ADM and Cargill, chocolate is just one of many businesses.
The ECB argues that tighter monetary policy is needed to ensure that a largely commodities-driven rise in inflation is contained and does not set off a wage-price spiral.
Thanks largely to commodities exports, the country has been Latin America's stand-out economic performer.
While the rest of the economy remains largely stagnant, commodities prices and farm incomes have remained at a protracted high.
My business, home mortgage lending, is very competitive and is largely a commodity business.
Mr. Trichet said that the recent increase in inflation largely reflected commodity prices and that there had not yet been evidence of its passing through to wages.
Well, if you look at the detail, you see that it's very largely about commodity prices — oil mostly, but also to some extent food, and even the bulge in apparel prices is probably mainly about cotton.
At best, the complete closure of every listed fossil fuel business on the planet would impact less than 70% of the world's combustible carbon reserves, most of which are held by state owned companies in largely single commodity countries.
As basic communications lines become largely a commodity market, communications carriers of all sizes and descriptions are trying to expand into more sophisticated markets that can carry richer profit margins, like Web hosts.
