fragmented market

Before his and other Web sites came along, "it's been a very fragmented market," he said.

One reason for the company's success, he continued, is that it operates in a highly fragmented market.

Otherwise, we will get bogged down in a fragmented market.

Europe’s problem is that we have a fragmented market because of historically differing security interests.

Traders said this was a fragmented market that had shown little continuity as a result.

That makes the large and fragmented market tough for providers to tap, but they are making efforts.

Relatively small and fragmented market, increasing price of high quality localization.

But that is a highly competitive and fragmented market.

These companies, with less than 1,000 employees, represent a vast but fragmented market, spending nearly $300 billion a year worldwide.

They contend that the currently fragmented market system, even if flawed, remains the best there is.

The fragmented markets of a single nation would sustain companies that served only niches.

Its problems are essentially those of the entire European computer industry: tough competition in a fragmented market and plunging prices.

It is unrealistic for cream skimmers to serve such a fragmented market.

"Our role has always tried to be the glue that keeps things together in a very fragmented market," Proteau said.

But one thing is undisputed: It is a severely fragmented market.

"For all that there may be a vast, fragmented market out there, there is a community," he said.

Greater affluence and choice led to more fragmented markets and hence the growth of direct marketing.

This largely depends on achieving economies of scale, and integrating activities by firms to overcome fragmented markets.

Although tariffs within the Common Market disappeared long ago, Europe has remained a fragmented market with many obstacles to trade.

When competition from the bus and automobile developed, their fragmented market was split even more, causing an increase in prices and a decline in service.

Germany has become a ripe target for acquisitions in recent years because it is a large but fragmented market, with 1,291 brewers producing around 5,000 beers.

That, to me, implies a more nuanced and fragmented market, that in turn suggests that creativity is booming.

To have turned the distinct and fragmented markets of the Member States into a single European market is an extraordinary and revolutionary change.

"I am profoundly convinced that the origin of the weakness of European industry is fragmented markets and short-sighted protectionist policies."