BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Harvesting Strategy
- a reduction in or cessation of marketing for a product prior to it being withdrawn from sale, resulting in an increase in profits on the back of previous marketing and advertising campaigns
Additional Resources
- Blockbusters: Why a Go-for-Hits Strategy Still Works
- Does the "blockbuster" strategy still work in a recession, when consumers are counting their pennies and companies are conserving resources? A pair of Harvard Business School faculty argue independently that, yes, companies that have thrived pursuing megahits shouldn't stop now. The blockbuster approach to...
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- Brazil : Cameco outlines sale strategy.
- Brazil, Nov 12, 2001 According to the research developed by Cameco do Brasil, producer of farm machinery controlled by John Deere, 139 facilities in the country still do not have harvesting machinery. It represents 45,3% of the 307 units sold in Brazil. Cameco has...
- Research articles 2001-11-19
- Thai Food Company Announces New China Strategy.
- Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 23--The Charoen Pokphand Group's investments in China will enter a period of "harvesting" over the next 10 years according to chairman Dhanin Chearavanont. CP, known as Zheng Da among the Chinese, entered the mainland...
- Research articles 2002-05-23
- Trident Seafoods Fuels Growth Strategy With IBM
- Trident Seafoods Corporation, a major U.S. seafood harvesting and processing company, has experienced significant growth, in part because of the performance and reliability of its IBM servers.
- Research articles 2006-07-19
- Gathering Knowledge While It's Ripe
- Growing its inventory of knowledge assets enables an enterprise to work faster and move on to new things. It has become something of a cliché in business theory, but that makes it no less true: a large portion of any company's assets reside in the heads of its employees, and...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Plum Creek Timber Company Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from Gil Gleason [ph] with UBS. Unidentified Analyst Hi, thank you. I guess just looking at the landfill market, you're saying obviously, you're still confident on the rural market. Just one thing, looking at the margins in...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-23
- Brazil: John Deere to produce farm machinery cabs in the country.
- Brazil, Mar 30, 2001 SLC-John Deere is to start the production of harvesting machinery cabs, currently imported from Argentina, in its Horizontina-based unit Rio Grande do Sul. The move is part of the company" strategy to expand the nationalization level of the components used...
- Research articles 2001-04-02
- Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session[Operator Instructions] And so, our first question comes from Andrew Kligerman from UBS. Please go ahead. Andrew Kligerman - UBS Hey, good morning, quick question first on variable annuity sales. They were down 3% in the quarter yet you are holding up guidance to 7% to 12% growth...
- Earnings calls 2008-05-08
- Kroger Teams With WWF in Sustainable Seafood Efforts
- CINCINNATI ? Kroger Co. has partnered with the World Wildlife Fund to develop a strategy for responsibly sourced wild seafood. Under the agreement, WWF will assist Kroger in assessing current sourcing of the company?s top 20 wild-caught seafood species in order to develop a sustainable seafood sourcing strategy. WWF will...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Corporate Venture Capital and Incumbent Firm Innovation Rates
- This paper focuses on the potential strategic benefits to corporate venture capital, i.e. equity investments in entrepreneurial ventures by incumbent firms. The paper's investigation builds on two theoretical pillars. First, that incumbent firms operating in competitive markets are inclined towards introducing innovations. Second that the knowledge necessary to generate innovation...
- White papers 2002-03-25
- When Do Incumbents Learn From Entrepreneurial Ventures?: Corporate Venture Capital and Investing Firm Innovation Rates
- In this paper, one focuses on the potential innovative benefits to Corporate Venture Capital CVC, i.e. equity investments in entrepreneurial ventures by incumbent firms. This paper proposes that corporate venture capital programs may be instrumental in harvesting innovations from entrepreneurial ventures and thus an important part of a firm's overall...
- White papers 2005-04-28
- Give Me Hits! Stepping on the Long-Tail Theory
- Long-tail theorists tell us we can sell more product over time by serving many niche markets aided by the Internet, rather than relying on constant development of mass market big hits. And to that Harvard Business School marketing professor John Quelch says, give me a blockbuster anytime. When...
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- American Capital Strategies Ltd. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. And our first question comes from the line of Sanjay Sakhrani of KBW. Please go ahead. Sanjay Sakhrani – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Just a quick question on the ’08 dividend guidance, how much of the...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-02
- HNI Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Ladies and gentleman, we will now begin the question and answer session of our conference. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from the line of Budd Bugatch at Raymond James. Please go ahead. Budd Bugatch - Raymond James & Associates, Inc. Good...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-18
- Dell FQ2 2007 (Qtr End Aug 2 2007) Earnings Conference Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Our next question comes from Richard Gardner - Citigroup. Richard Gardner - Citigroup Thank you very much. You made mention of pricing too aggressively in the quarter in a decelerating demand environment. You also made mention several times of balancing revenue...
- Earnings calls 2006-08-17
- Handsets under $20 to drive volume.(Upfront)
- Byline: PHIL CARSON Big opportunities come with big risks, particularly in chasing the future of the cellphone business. One opportunity, pursued by the market's two giants and their challengers, is to deliver ultra low-cost handsets into the hands...
- Research articles 2007-01-29
- The vertical-integration strategy: as we enter 2007, the industry comes off a year that saw Wall Street dive ever more deeply into the harvesting of profits from the mortgage sector. This article sums up all the major deals, as well as the factors driving
- In 1997, a group of bankers from New York-based Lehman Brothers Inc.'s mortgage trading desk landed at the small airport in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and drove past the cornfields and sugar-beet processing plant en route to a former truck terminal converted to a mortgage servicing call center. The company they were...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- Columbia's McGrath Reveals Top Mistakes of Firms Establishing New Growth Businesses
- Rita Gunther McGrath of Columbia Business School helps companies venture out to the frontier of new business creation. Â Last week, she shared her ideas about how companies should define their growth goals, structure plans, and judge the potential of new businesses. Â Â She also knows the kinds...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Ponsse Oyj enters into cooperation with Chadwick-BaRoss Inc
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-12 May 2006-Ponsse Oyj enters into cooperation with Chadwick-BaRoss IncC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Finnish forest machinery and equipment manufacturer Ponsse Oyj said on Friday (12 May) that it had agreed with the US machinery dealer Chadwick-BaRoss Inc and Ponsse North America Inc to cooperate in the...
- Research articles 2006-05-12
- BP Profit Halves, Cost Cuts Help
- By Tom BerginLONDON (Reuters UK) - BP beat third-quarter earnings forecasts by a big margin in a sign Chief Executive Tony Hayward's restructuring plans were delivering results, with cost cuts ahead of targets and oil and gas output up strongly.BP said third-quarter replacement cost net profit, which strips out unrealised...
- News items 2009-10-27
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