It has not only lost share, it has been forced to offer costly sales incentives.
Small businesses would have to offer costly benefits in order to join the federal employees' health-benefits programme.
The United States-based Chrysler unit has offered costly buyer incentives to retain market share, but expects to offer fewer next year as it brings new models to market.
Jeffrey R. Immelt, the General Electric chief executive, told The New York Times in December that the consulting firm offered costly advice in 2007, when it played down the risks of a financial crisis.
Correction: July 10, 2001, Tuesday Because of an editing error, an article on Sunday about the New York State Consumer Protection Board's investigation of telemarketers that offer costly antifraud packages misattributed a statement.
Gerry Ledford, a senior research scientist at the University of Southern California's Center for Effective Organizations, pointed out that the companies that offer costly benefits, like long paid parental leaves, tend to be financially successful, with money available to spend on H.R. perks.
Some parents spend thousands of pounds a year; there are 11-plus coaching camps in the holidays and the most exclusive tutors are so selective that they offer costly pre-testing to see if pupils as young as seven or eight are eligible for their courses.
Negotiators from both sides could resume face-to-face bargaining to determine how to make the deal more palatable to members, or they could seek help from mediators, but those approaches might be fruitless because the authority is unlikely to offer costly new concessions.
Its competitors on high-end are companies like BroadSoft, which offer costly, proprietary IP hardware and combined hardware/software technologies.
