With persisting inflation leading to rising food prices, consumers are making trade-offs and economizing their food purchases.
Drop, an app designed to help consumers earn rewards from their shopping, is one company that has started to explore new audio channels outside of social platforms. Catalina Lee, director of marketing at Drop, said that the company had a lot of success leveraging influencers on Instagram and...
Wu Yunfeng, a Fujian Dali company, said that during the process of rising cost of raw materials and wages, the company had been trying to raise prices when negotiating with foreign clients. Of course, some of them had already signed orders. Wu Yunfeng remembered that when the cotton yarn wa...
Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. Once the patents expire, there is competition from so-called “generic drugs,” and the price comes down. That difference in price (...
Indoor location technologieshave been around for a good while. It’s not a brand-new concept, nor is it something that consumers and companies haven’t come across yet. However, it is only recently that the market started growing at an increasing rate and it looks like we are yet to witn...
We have seen in the ballooning cash accounts, such as CDs, money market funds, and T-bills, that households are not only flush with cash but kept adding to their cash holdings, and we used this continued ballooning of cash holdings as abetter sign...
The theory goes if borrowing money is more expensive, you'll spend less of it. The hope is that sellers may reduce prices or at least slow down their price increases as demand falls and they're having to compete...
Had the company decided to come out with the IPO instead of withdrawing, the investors would still have paid the expensive prices for the shares on offer. Atleast in this case, the company withdrew its application. But in most cases, companies go ahead with their overpriced IPOs. Why say ...
The only trouble with that story is the fact that all of them have slammed the bag on further subsidies; some of them have, in effect, set upmoratoriums against any more new wind farms; and all of them are facing a furious backlash from power consumers (read ‘voters’) fed up with ...
Since the beginning of this year, prices of raw materials such as cotton have been rising all the way, coupled with rising labor costs. Many experts predict that the price of clothing will increase substantially in the second half of this year. The Natio