leading competitor

"Do your market research and aim to be better than the leading competitor."

In one year they launched more new models than their leading competitors put together.

That left me out of touch with what I hoped was my leading competitor.

"But it's not bad to have a leading competitor that takes a different strategy from yours."

When it came to recovery, Britain did rather better than many leading competitors.

"Exxon would not be obviously larger than its leading competitors, the way Microsoft is," he said.

There are three leading competitors and we price against these competitors today.

However, many of its leading competitors did.

Although considered a leading competitor, he lost to Thomas U. Walter.

Using such campaigns Target has been able to establish itself as a leading competitor in high retail goods for a discounted price.

Speculation has swirled around Hambrecht since its two leading competitors were taken over last summer.

Mergers and alliances between leading competitors should be prohibited - they are good neither for companies nor for America.

As of December 2007, the brand has established itself among the leading competitors for the inner city transportation in Turkey.

Another leading competitor, American Airlines, has instituted two-tier pay scales for its employees.

Best-in-class benchmarking - involves studying the leading competitor or the company that best carries out a specific function.

Relative market share indexes a firm's or a brand's market share against that of its leading competitor.

Hurst would soon become the sports leading competitor and would later represent Australia at the 2008 Olympics.

The share price of another leading competitor, Merrill Lynch & Company, is still 30 percent off its peak level.

The company's leading competitor is Moores.

In 1925, he changed to professional motor-paced cycling and was a world leading competitor in this discipline in 1930-1932.

"We plan to achieve sales growth and operating margins on a par with those of our leading competitors," Mr. Schneider said today.

While Cisco's revenue rose 2 percent over the last year, he said, the combined revenue of the 10 leading competitors declined 43 percent.

Fortune's two leading competitors, Forbes and Business Week, also run annual lists, with each magazine contending that its own is the gold standard.

"I'm going next door and buy a Florence DeMille," she threatened him with the name of a leading competitor.

Nevertheless, Cory Everson and some of her leading competitors were receiving national TV coverage.