Sentence examples for smaller makers from inspiring English sources

"There is a far greater variety of ciders produced by smaller makers than by the industrial giants.

Other brand-name manufacturers, they said, have shut down production lines and subcontracted the assembly of modules to smaller makers.

For smaller makers, the combination of falling shipments and growing power by the larger makers is expected to push some out altogether.

Demand slowed from the big makers, he said, and as A.M.D. tried to move the excess inventory to other smaller makers, it discovered those customers were buying from Intel.

The decision highlights a problem that has begun to afflict smaller makers of Windows PCs, and even some of the big ones: as the global market for PCs shrinks, profits are fast turning into losses.

But below them are dozens of smaller makers, which are suffering as new-car prices fall (they are already down by 30% since 2004) and stricter emissions rules require big investments in technology.

D. Edwards, a smaller maker of business software, is valued at $1.75 billion in a combination of cash and stock.

Beckman Coulter, a maker and distributor of biomedical testing and laboratory products, agreed yesterday to acquire Biosite, a smaller maker of diagnostic blood tests, for about $1.55 billion in cash.

At the after-hours price, Intel's market capitalization dropped below that of Qualcomm — a smaller maker of chips, but a company that makes chips for smartphones and tablets.

At the same time, Adobe Systems, whose software for electronic publishing and reading on screen is currently the most widely used, agreed to buy Glassbook, a smaller maker of software for reading on screen.

And Henry B. Schacht had traded his responsibilities as chief executive of the gigantic Lucent Technologies for a post as chairman of a much smaller maker of office communications equipment spun off from Lucent.