Segments Quotes

While December was a difficult comparison for us and other manufacturers, by any measure it still was a solid sales month. We're particularly pleased with the recovery in our sport utility and full-size pickup business. It gives us renewed confidence as we prepare to launch new vehicles into these key segments in 2006. - Mark LaNeve

Where consoles have always scored over the PC games has been in the physical interface the user has with the game. Our Lapboard changes all that. PC Gamers can get a premium peripheral that enhances the gaming experience considerably. It's also the perfect stepping-stone and bridges the subsequent launch of the full service further down the line. The required $USD 2 million round of funding for the Phantom Lapboard is a necessary step to deliver our vision for our products and services quickly into the market, positioned for both consumer and OEM segments, and book revenues by June 2006. - Greg Koler

When you look at medium vs. large SUVs, I think there is already a lot of back-and-forth shopping and buying between those segments, and that will continue. - Sam Pack

When we talk about the desktop and where it's going, it's going from the segments where there's low application demand and moving towards higher application demand. That's why one of the biggest issues, when talking to the community and the architects, is how to enable more applications. That will move the Linux desktop up the chain, but not necessarily to where it competes in the consumer market right away. - John Cherry

When we talk about a 'store of the community,' it is particularly important when we look at the ethnic customer segments that we have. - Pat Curran

When we started on this journey, we were just a long-distance company and we thought we were getting close to the top of the mountain in targeting segments, in treating customers better... Then all of a sudden we're in the local phone business, the wireless business, the Internet business, and it turns out we're just in the foothills [of information competency]. - John Peterson

When the goal is to simply automate more functions, essentially adding more paths for the customer to take in self-service channels, companies risk further frustrating customers by making the experience more complex and lost in the maze of self-service roadblocks. By looking at particular customer segments and what self-service options that segment needs [and] wants before adding them, leading companies consistently get a much higher usage of that particular function and greater satisfaction from the customer. - Robert Wollan

When Ralph Rubio started 23 years ago with one small restaurant in the Mission Bay area of San Diego, people would travel from all corners of the county to savor one of our Original Fish Tacos. Rubio's fish tacos quickly became a phenomenon and started a huge new trend in all segments of Mexican restaurants. We now have 18 locations in Phoenix alone where our guests can experience what we believe is the best-tasting, best-priced Baja-inspired cuisine available. We're pleased to make a visit to Rubio's more convenient for the people of Phoenix. - Larry Rusinko

What's really behind all of this is that there were expectations for international data growth, business services growth, Internet growth and the higher value-added segments that just have not transpired. - David Staples