Sentence examples for supplying consumer from inspiring English sources
Scarcity, of course, is an integral part of high fashion, but it often has a basis in the practical difficulties of supplying consumer demand: customers will wait months for a Birkin bag from Hermès not just because the company knows the marketing value of making a product hard to get but because the bags are painstakingly created by a small number of highly skilled craftsmen.
Sourcing giant Li & Fung sank 10.4%, or 2.40 Hong Kong dollars (31 cents), to 20.60 Hong Kong dollars ($2.64) after the disappointing retail sales data in the U.S. implied a darker outlook for its business supplying consumer products to U.S. retailers.
It argues that a process of 'industrial urbanisation' occurred in Japan's capital city, a process that was shaped by the existence of a large proto-industrial base and sophisticated consumer economy and characterised by dynamic but disorderly growth in factories largely supplying consumer goods to the urban market.
It seems AT&T is looking at building a femtocell network by supplying consumers with the cells in their homes.
"Supplying consumers with blueprints to print products designed by third parties is a business model fraught with risk," said Lorna Caddy of law firm Taylor Wessing.
The last six months, Netpulse Communications of San Francisco has supplied consumer information to advertisers like General Motors and iVillage and gyms like Crunch and 24-Hour Fitness in major cities.
The rapid growth of commercial sheep herds is due to an expansion of sheep meat markets in all regions of the country, though Brazilian production of lamb meat is insufficient to supply consumer demand; consequently, many breeders of beef cattle are now investing in sheep husbandry, with the acquisition of animals from other regions of the country.
Our food system is strengthened by the diversity of the farms, processors and retailers who supply consumers.
The Coppertone MyUVAlert, for example, supplies consumers with localized, real time UVA and UVB information, sunscreen reapplication reminders, coupons and sun protection tips (most involving Coppertone products, of course).
At the moment, Brazil's banking system is peculiar: commercial banks lend to the government and supply consumers credit, but do not provide much debt to businesses, which mostly finance themselves from retained profits.
Building pipelines to the west coast, to carry exports to Asia, or to the east to supply consumers in Ontario and Quebec (home to 62% of Canada's 35m people) will take years, even if planning battles are won.
