Shakeout: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Shakeout

  • the elimination of weak or cautious investors during a crisis in the financial market

Wiktionary Definition for: Shakeout

  • #An event that causes marginal constituents to be eliminated.
  • Ex:''The dot-com '''shakeout''' of the 90s left only the most durable, most profitable, and most well backed companies surviving.''

Additional Resources

Shaking All Over?: International Trade And Industrial Dynamics
This paper develops a model of international trade and industrial evolution. Evolution is driven by the endogenous technology choices of firms which generates a rich industrial environment that includes the potential for a dramatic shakeout of firms. The likelihood, magnitude and timing of this shakeout is characterized and depends not...
Tags: Finance, Management, Leadership, Free Trade, Shakeout, University Of Kentucky, Evolution
White papers 2005-04-01
Electronics retailers in for a shock. (New York)
Shakeout looms as Wiz, others struggle With few innovative products to sell and personal computer prices falling, New York's electronics retailers are being squeezed by an industrywide slump that is likely to precipitate a shakeout. In a clear sign thShakeout looms as Wiz, others struggle ...
Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., electronics, industry, retail company
Research articles 1997-07-14
Xilinx purchases Plus Logic; PLD vendor shakeout near? - programmable logic devices
SAN JOSE Calif. -- Portending a shakeout may be forthcoming in the crowded programmable logic market, Xilinx Inc. last week acquired Plus Logic, a troubled startup which last year shuffled top management and laid off half its staff.
Tags: shakeout, Xilinx Inc.
Research articles 1992-01-20
Decision-Making, The Dot.com Shakeout, And Entrepreneurship
The Internet boom has taken the corporate sector by storm. As a result, companies are facing the brunt of failed ventures, abandoned ventures, and pained ventures that run without CEOs. It has been observed that most entrepreneurs are rapidly driving down the road of the Internet. Thus, there is an...
Tags: Management, Internet, Shakeout, Decision-making, Dot-com, Entrepreneurship
White papers 2003-01-01
Winners and Losers in the E-Commerce Shakeout
"Winners and Losers in the E-Commerce Shakeout" brought some definite ideas to the party. Recent conference highlighted e-commerce winners from some of the losers. A lasting business model, brand recognition, a plan to convert customers after initial contact, relationship with your "old economy" business, proper management personnel, clearly identified revenue...
Tags: Internet, E-business/E-Commerce, Web Technology, E-business, Knowledge@Wharton
White papers 2002-12-06
Blood in the Aisles: Surviving the Grocery Shakeout
The grocery industry is changing rapidly. Grocery retail channels are fragmenting as consumers become more sophisticated and non-grocery alternatives proliferate. New retail formats have entered the market with a focus on specific consumer segments and purchase occasions, and consumers have responded with their pocketbooks, reducing traditional grocery market share. This...
Tags: Grocery, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
White papers 2003-08-01
Foundry Shakeout Feeder.(Brief Article)
The TWFE Shakeout from Joest, Houston, TX, is ideally suited for automatic molding lines to efficiently remove sand and gently handle castings. Through state-of-the-art design and technology the angle of vibration can be continuously adjusted between The TWFE Shakeout from Joest, Houston, TX, is ideally suited...
Tags: vibration
Research articles 2000-11-01
Molecular sieves facing a shakeout following PQ entry.
The entry of a new player in the molecular sieves market, coupled with decelerating growth in North America, has prompted some players to postpone or call off entirely their expansion plans, and there may even be a shakeout in the works. ...
Tags: Molecular Inc., shakeout
Research articles 1998-02-16
Molecular Sieves Facing a Shakeout Following PQ Entry
THE ENTRY OF A NEW PLAYER in the molecular sieves market, coupled with decelerating growth in North America, has prompted some players to postpone or call off entirely their expansion plans, and there may even be a shakeout in the works. The new...
Tags: company, Molecular Inc., shakeout
Research articles 1998-02-16
Australian Health Insurance Market "Ripe for a Shakeout"
A new report by Booz Allen Hamilton has found that the Australian health insurance market — with 44 health funds serving a population of close to 20 million — is showing the need for consolidation. It also illustrates that the industry is due for a further shakeout as the changing...
Tags: Human Resources, Software, Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Shakeout, Health Care, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
White papers 2003-09-02
ABI Research is predicting a shakeout.(RFID NEWS)(Brief Article)
ABI Research is predicting a shakeout in the coming six to nine months. There will be roll-ups, acquisitions and consolidation, as the need for more focused RFID--related software and applications grows. Erik Michielsen, ABI Research's director of ABI Research is predicting a shakeout...
Tags: ABI Research, RFID, shakeout
Research articles 2005-09-01
New Economy Or Old Economy, A Shakeout Is A Shakeout
The article presents some interesting research findings. Based on research into dozens of "old economy" shakeouts - from the invention of the railroad to the advent of personal computers it holds that this "new economy" shakeout is not much different. Far too many players come in, there’s lots of excitement,...
Tags: Management, Marketing, Strategy, Marketing Research, Pricing, Shakeout, Article
White papers 2001-03-19
Surviving the Shakeout: Where B2B Exchanges Went Wrong
As the dust settles in the Internet shakeout, business owners are realizing that it is the market that matters – not necessarily the technology. Article talks about a new study, which looks at the winners and losers in one sector of the Internet marketplace, and come up with key lessons...
Tags: Shakeout, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, B2B
White papers 2002-12-04
An Overpopulated Solid-State Drive Market Won't Spur Much M&A
Tech Confidential submits: Flash memory-based solid state drives, or SSDs, are all the rage right now, with companies tiny and huge scrambling to come up with technology to replace hard-disk drives in PCs. A piece in EETimes Wednesday covered this trend, tantalizing us with the headline "Shakeout looms in...
Tags: Hardware, Chip, Intel Corp., Micron Technology Inc., SanDisk Corp.
External links 2008-08-28
Yes, Virginia; There are successful tech companies.
Not every dot-com is a not-com. Although the era of overpriced Web consulting is over, technology is forever. And somebody has to tell businesses how to use it. VuCom New Media Inc. in Troy is among the survivors of the shakeout. Other...
Tags: company, dot-com, revenue, Revenue, Web
Research articles 2001-07-16
PMC-Sierra chief sees ATM shakeout - Robert L. Bailey sees Asynchronous Transfer Mode protocol changing network chip market
BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA--A shakeout looms in the network chip market even as the Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM protocol gains acceptance. So says Robert L. Bailey, president and CEO of PMC-Seirra, which has a toe-hold in the ATM market through the Saturn (SONET/SDH ATM User Network) development group.
Tags: ATM, chip, network, PMC-Sierra Inc.
Research articles 1994-03-14
(Im)Permanente.(Kaiser Permanente's sale of its operation in Charlotte, NC)
Kaiser calls it quits in Charlotte, a symptom the shakeout in North Carolina's managed-care industry is in full swing. Kaiser calls it quits in Charlotte, a symptom the shakeout in North Carolina's managed-care industry is in full swing.
Tags: Kaiser Permanente
Research articles 1999-06-01
PANASONIC, NEC TO JOIN HANDS, FACING SHAKEOUT
AsiaInfo Services 07-28-2006 Panasonic, NEC to Join Hands, Facing Shakeout BEIJING, Jul 28, 2006 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Recently, NEC Corporation and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Panasonic, two leading Japanese cellphone manufac AsiaInfo Services 07-28-2006 ...
Tags: handset, NEC Corp., Panasonic
Research articles 2006-07-28
Britains Centrica to Acquire Connecticut-Based Natural Gas Marketer.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Dec. 13--The shakeout in Georgia's deregulated natural-gas market continued Tuesday with plans to sell the No. 4 marketer to a British energy conglomerate. Dec. 13--The shakeout in Georgia's deregulated natural-gas market continued Tuesday with plans to sell the No. 4 marketer to a ...
Tags: Centrica, natural gas
Research articles 2000-12-14
ON24 Audio Investor Alert: Dot-Com Shakeout Eliminated Akamai's Competition
Business Editors & Analysts
Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., dot-com
Research articles 2001-01-24
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