April 2012
Cam Mackey |
04/27/2012 |
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Manufacturers are increasingly turning to aftermarket products and services to drive growth. While a construction firm, for example, might buy a front-end loader only once every decade, to keep it operational they’ll need immediate access to replacement parts and related services. According to a recent MAPI survey, aftermarket generates 30% of enterprise sales and 41% of enterprise profits. Deloitte has shown that service offerings can be...
Categories: Business Management, Corporate Strategy, Innovation, Marketing, Sales, Strategic Planning
Yingying Xu, Ph.D. |
04/25/2012 |
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China's first quarter GDP growth figure just came out last week (see New York Times), and its economic growth slowed down from 8.9% in the last quarter of 2011 to 8.1% in the first quarter of 2012. Although the growth rate is still above the 7.5% target set by the government, it is well below the market expectation of 8.4%.
The pressure mainly comes from two areas. Domestically, the investment and construction in private residential housing...
Rae Ann S. Johnson |
04/24/2012 |
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Earth Day was April 22....did you or your company recycle? Conserve water? Reduce energy consumption? Participate in a volunteer cleanup?
You might be surprised to learn that many of your fellow MAPI members did. A recent survey of our EHS and Sustainability Councils revealed that 61% of responding companies implemented specific plans to commemorate Earth Day. These commemorations ran the gamut from "Earth Week" celebrations throughout the...