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That's life-changing for the furniture manufacturers.

Randy Rubin

Among manufacturers some have been relying on a strong housing market. It is appropriate to be concerned that housing will not be as strong in the quarters ahead as it was through much of 2005.

Gerald Zukowski

A revival in their investment plans backs up the case that deflation is ending. Non- manufacturers have no choice but to depend on domestic sales and until now they have been reluctant to increase investment because of concern about deflation.

Ryutaro Kono

Oil prices are still high and hurting smaller manufacturers.

Steve Sharratt

Clearly German business sentiment has been on a decline since May last year and what we are seeing now is that German manufacturers are really feeling the impact of the global slowdown.

Peter Dixon

Premium manufacturers will have an advantage in these conditions because these features are expensive and it's easier to put them into a premium car. With older customers there is the need for safety, but also the excitement of driving.

Thomas Weber

With wave after wave of environmental regulations, electronics manufacturers are likely feeling a bit punch-drunk. We believe in re-focusing the chaos and creating one controlled plan forward.

Bruce Calder

We're concerned and alarmed by the lack of innovation in this area. There are very few manufacturers of vaccines today, and the plants are not distributed widely.

Brook Byers

As more and more new designs hit the market, manufacturers are finding it increasingly difficult to make their new models stand out.

Chance Parker

You can't blame China for everything. There are a lot of problems that manufacturers have to face.

David Huether

Looking at the manufacturers' output forecasts for January and February, even if the March figures are flat, we should see output be positive again in January-March.

Takehiro Sato

The contract manufacturers, the component manufacturers, the guys that build the boards and the parts, followed their customers along to China.

Dharmo Soejanto

Manufacturers are getting so much better at making and designing cars. The competition between manufacturers is ferocious, so reliability is still a big factor in a buying decision.

Philip Reed

Food manufacturers will capitalize on fads as long as they're around and its profitable for them. When it's over, it's on to the next thing.

Burt Flickinger

I think we've heard positive responses from eight different ball manufacturers. Some (prototypes) are on the way and more will be very soon.

Dick Rugge

By design, our licensing structure enables nimble and forward-thinking system manufacturers to disadvantage their competitors.

Mac Leckrone

Non-manufacturers have become a little more optimistic. That's very, very important for assessing the sustainability of the current expansion.

Huw Mckay

We're delighted that the FDA has moved forward at all. The worst thing for manufacturers and consumers is limbo.

Cynthia Harriman

What we need is 10 per cent cash incentive for finished leather manufacturers and duty free import of shoe accessories.

Tipu Sultan

I think this is the biggest problem that I've ever seen with automobile manufacturers. I really believe it's the biggest problem GM has ever had.

Phil Edmonston

The majority of semiconductor manufacturers have and will continue to maintain their investment discipline and invest carefully, although some vendors will be investing strategically in 2006.

Klaus Rinnen

With three contract manufacturers on board, we're poised to have the flexibility and efficiencies we need to keep up with the consumer demand.

Todd Holmdahl

By the passage of the new rule, there is now one federal standard for manufacturers to meet.

Julie Vallese

The mining industry is big where you are, but it's very small when it comes to buying power. It's difficult to compete with manufacturers when those markets are huge.

Lewis Wade

There's been continued resilience among consumers. And manufacturers are having to produce things to meet that demand.

Chris Wiegand

The dollar's average break-even level for Japanese manufacturers is estimated at 115.32 yen for the current business year. So if the dollar slips to around 115 yen, that should be pretty negative to Japan's corporate earnings and its economy.

Masaaki Higashida

That makes it cheaper and more compelling for OEMs [original equipment manufacturers, a reference to computer makers] to put Intel's in their PCs because the Celeron is competitively priced with AMD and Cyrix.

Chris Chaney

The economy is gaining a little more traction. Demand growth from consumers and businesses is encouraging manufacturers.

John Herrmann

The domestic manufacturers have capacity in excess of demand, so they have determined to lower price through incentives to keep them occupied.

Tom Libby

The manufacturers come here with a huge selection for people to try. It's a good chance to hit some balls and see what suits you.

Chris Plummer

A kitchen appliance with an RJ45 connection can be plugged into the Net. Few appliances have this, but manufacturers of chillers, fridges and fryers are increasingly adding this connection as well as PC boards to future-proof equipment.

Stephen Read

We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

Joe Murray

There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and talking very buoyantly about the future.

Chris Avery

Toy manufacturers can make these products at a price parents will tolerate even if kids break them.

John Barbour

These standards will be a challenge. It won't be easy for all manufacturers. But we're committed to being part of the solution.

Charles Territo

At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.

Debbie Stabenow

The key is for product manufacturers and developers is to maintain as much of the essential functionality that consumers find in the larger products and to introduce new and relevant functionality.

Beth Zimmerman

If software manufacturers and computer manufacturers act responsibly, they have nothing to fear.

Reed Kathrein

We're not an open shop. We're manufacturers, not retailers. We're six weeks behind as it is.

Carol Shultz

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Steve Ruggiero

What he did in the artistic field is what a lot of Japan's top name manufacturers did in their field.

James Bailey

Increased demand is not a bad thing. With more demand, manufacturers will make more vaccine.

Lola Russell

It really slides off after Thanksgiving. There's no incentive for manufacturers to keep making the vaccine.

Steve Wright

Asia is certainly the strongest place right now. Both manufacturers have good products and are putting their best foot forward.

John Leahy

It will be awhile before any certain manufacturers gets to the level that Clark Foam was.

Mike Woo

Consumers are unpaid conscripts in an unpaid army of product testers who go and find the problems and alert the manufacturers.

Jeff Blyskal

Our long-term goal is to become one of the top three automobile manufacturers in China.

Cheng Meiwei

Our goal with the What Women Want Auto Study is to help car manufacturers best to cater to the needs of their female consumers.

John Kupsch

This would mean a lot of business opportunities from this region for aircraft manufacturers in the coming years.

Dinesh Keskar

We feel if we could do this in our lab for a couple hundred bucks, what can the biggest car manufacturers in the world do with all the facilities they have? And we're giving them five to seven years to do it.

Jerry Martin

We and other manufacturers are making the investments to ensure that there will be sustainable supplies going forward.

Andrew Macknight

Based on what we have heard from manufacturers, we believe that 0.1 is doable.

Michael Kashtock

It will inevitably, I believe, put some pressure on Canadian prices. We've already seen some manufacturers increase their prices in the Canadian market.

Jeff Poston

I'm quite sure there will be several manufacturers who are interested in talking to the employees.

Kathy Baylis

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Alan Coren

The Chinese have just about cleaned out all of the safety-glasses manufacturers in the United States. There's about six of us left.

Wes Patterson

You can go to all the manufacturers very quickly and save yourself a lot of time.

John Lyboldt

Manufacturers tend to design in the size 2 to 10 range.

Dianne Jacob

Most manufacturers have no idea how bad the environment is out there.

Mark Arnold

There's no doubt the equipment manufacturers want to make a buck out of the upgrade.

Adrian Wilson

We're making it a common size to electronics. The idea is to make it easier for manufacturers to incorporate it into their electronics.

Lee Bzorgi

I understand the manufacturers don't want the supplier network, and I can understand why.

Jim Roddey

The lack of an extensive transportation network is enough to deter most large manufacturers.

Andrew Barbour

Knollenberg has targeted the wrong federal regulation. This is a win for consumers, for manufacturers, for environmental and conservation groups, for the utility companies, it's a win for everybody.

Cece Kremer

We don't discuss our relationships with our current vendors, and we don't discuss other manufacturers' business strategies.

Jen King

Most of the people focused on addressing these issues are equipment manufacturers. Our best response is technological fixes.

Linda Scott

As the semiconductor cycle goes through a rough spot, then clearly Japanese manufacturers will be affected. Their desire to build new capacity and plant will be affected -- and so it's clearly not a good thing for the Japanese economy.

Robert Feldman

Car manufacturers are looking 20 years down the road when their customers are going to be older on average. Innovation is the most important aspect for car makers and they are investing a lot of money in this.

Stefan Bauknecht

There is a level of mistrust. The lack of a consolidated effort by HB-LED manufacturers with OEMs has been a hallmark and a drawback for the HB-LED industry.

Lawrence Gasman

The (auto) sector continues to face ongoing competitive challenges, as manufacturers shed a further 1,200 payrolls during December, bringing the 2005 job losses to 100,400.

Sarah Hughes

Beta tapes have better audio than VHS, but Sony lost out in the marketing war ... probably from numerous factors. My guess is more manufacturers made the VHS and it was cheaper.

Chris Watts

It will give manufacturers and companies a lot more local experience. They can do a lot more testing. There are a lot of advantages.

Ben Luce

In the last five days, we have successfully concluded negotiations with five of the largest manufacturers in the world, ... That's five in five. What they do and how they do it basically touches everyone worldwide in one way or another.

Ron Gettelfinger

We look forward to meeting with the world's leading contractors, design firms, developers, financiers and building product manufacturers in Beijing to discuss global issues facing this great industry.

Norbert W. Young

The last thing manufacturers want is a Balkanized market where you have inconsistent or conflicting regulations.

Hank Cox

It's hard to get the manufacturers excited about it.

Marc Siegel

Foreign workers' remittances boosted local manufacturers.

Dennis Arroyo

It is expected that the production would move to Eastern Europe or China, as the growth is there. In this sector the price competition from Chinese manufacturers is fierce.

Hannu Rauhala

It's true that manufacturers have financial assets but small is good ? and manufacturers sometimes get it wrong as well.

Mark Webber

Mandatory caps would be detrimental to manufacturers by driving up the cost of doing business.

Keith Mccoy

High-tech manufacturers aren't doing that badly in terms of fundamentals, but investors have decided that's all been factored in and are reacting only to the bad news.

Shinichi Ichikawa

That put tremendous strain on manufacturers.

Scott Sannes

Manufacturers were reluctant to build products without knowing what the standards and timeline would be.

Tom Simmons

I think just going to a team that's definitely on the top of the list on the manufacturer's side and has a really big depth to the team as far as the resources they have in different areas is going to be big.

Scott Riggs

Sears owns the Kenmore brand. We're one of at least five different manufacturers in a process that they manage. What we manufacture for them today we may not manufacture tomorrow.

Jeff M. Fettig

We remain hopeful that Glock and other manufacturers will follow Smith & Wesson's lead.

Bruce Reed

We get volunteers throughout our organization, whether it's manufacturers and supplies, the contractors donate equipment and supplies labor and we do it all for free. The crane companies, everyone is doing it for free.

Louis Hobaica

It's kind of funny what they've done. For calculating CAFE standards . . . requirements for manufacturers haven't changed at all.

George Hoffer

One in four Torrington taxpayers will see their taxes go up if the Congress does not act. This bill will help small businesses and manufacturers grow.

Mayor Ryan Bingham

The FDA has jurisdiction over nicotine because (the agency) found that (the substance) does have drug-like affects -- and that the manufacturers intend those (effects).

John Banzhaf

Furniture manufacturers will clearly be nervous with the potential (of) slowing in the housing sector.

Gerald Zukowski

Add-on devices are a Band-Aid approach for PDA manufacturers to provide solutions.

Tim Scannell

This is challenging and it won't be easy to meet these standards but manufacturers are committed to being a part of the solution.

Charles Territo

We all know how dependent Japanese manufacturers are on the U.S. market. The jobs data is a blow to already-weak sentiment.

Masayoshi Okamoto

We expect the economy to enjoy a lasting recovery. It was a good report overall and it's encouraging to see both manufacturers and non-manufacturers are increasing spending.

Takehiro Sato

If we do things that make [manufacturers] uncompetitive on a global scale, we shouldn't be surprised they relocate.

Jim Owens

It's going to be an issue that needs to be considered. There are only a few manufacturers that make approved devices.

Carte Goodwin

This is something that could take manufacturers into new markets and niches.

Tom Mclaughlin

Going into 1998, Dataquest sees a continuing overcapacity, forcing manufacturers to continue their efforts to keep prices low to win the fight for their share of customers' business, a fight they encounter at the buyers' desk.

Jim Handy

Relatively few manufacturers have the luxury to choose a different product mix based on energy prices.

Colin Masson

There is a lot of pressure on Chinese manufacturers.

Jing Ulrich

We have been working with seven external manufacturers to speed up the processes.

Susie Hackett

It's inevitable that many of the camera manufacturers in the market today will be either bought up or go out of business.

Fred Lee

High oil prices are kind of benefiting Singapore in a way. We're seeing some increase in the order books of all these companies, the oil rig manufacturers.

Euben Paracuelles

It doesn't make our job any easier when computer manufacturers begin changing configurations. But it's necessary if you want to increase the capacity of the computer. The changes aren't always backwards-compatible.

Eric Thomas

Hundreds of patent infringement cases are pending against computer software and hardware manufacturers.

Emery Simon