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Numbers Can Be Deceiving

More than a few of you – retailers, manufacturers and distributors – have to be scratching your collective heads saying, “How can that be possible? Our business was ‘X’ last year? How can it be in a year that Bernie’s, Ken Crane’s, GameCrazy, MeyerEmco, not to mention Flanner’s and most recently Ultimate Electronics have bitten the dust?” The industry has changed, once again, to no one’s surprise. But the new products that were ascendant in 2010 and continue to be are smartphones and iPads. What’s different about the industry’s technological changeover this time as compared to many others we have seen is that more new suppliers have come in to dominate, vs. traditional brands. The same thing is true on the retail side. Barnes & Noble, on the strength of its Nook e-reader, in the words of Alan Wolf  “blasted its way onto the rankings,” at No. 66. But that’s nothing compared to the new No. 4 on our list, Amazon. com, with a 72 percent increase in sales that now has both Walmart and Best Buy looking over its shoulders. Since International CES in January, almost starting with our annual retail roundtable in Las Vegas (which appeared in our Feb. 21 issue), in just about any discussion TWICE has had with industry leaders, some lament at the state of the industry. Others have said – and shown with their actions – that companies have to embrace this change to survive and thrive. You can’t do anything about macro-economic trends, or the rising price of gasoline and other commodities, and you can’t do much about unemployment. (Although hhgregg is doing a helluva job on its own, hiring plenty in its expansion drive, isn’t it?) Here’s a reminder about the nature of this industry from CE Hall of Famer Joe Clayton, who was just hired as DISH Network’s president/CEO (see p. 4). He told TWICE last week, “Technology always changes the landscape so that is nothing new...

Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network: Elixir Medical Receives CE ...

Innovative Stent System Offers Excellent Clinical Results With Thinnest Durable Polymer Coating, Low Drug Dose and Flexible Platform

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)-- Elixir Medical Corporation, a developer of product platforms combining state-of-the-art medical devices with advanced pharmaceuticals, announced that it has received CE Mark (Conformité Européenne) for its DESyne Drug Eluting Coronary Stent System for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

“The CE Mark approval represents a major accomplishment for the company and validates the impressive clinical results demonstrated with this system,” said Alexandre Abizaid, M.D., Ph.D., from the Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia in Sao Paulo, Brazil, co-principal investigator for the EXCELLA II clinical trial. “With its thin polymer coating and low drug dose, Elixir’s DESyne platform will provide clinicians with technology that raises the bar for the treatment of patients with coronary artery disease.”

The DESyne stent elutes a novel macrocyclic lactone compound Novolimus.

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The E-myth revisited, why most small businesses don't work and what to do about it

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