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Notable works. Organizations and groups. People. Related social movements. See also. v. t. e. In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so ...
List of tool manufacturers. This is a list of manufacturers of Woodworking hand tools, hand-held power tools and stationary machines. Western Forge, [18] Pratt-Read, [19] SK Hand Tools. [20] [21] Milwaukee, Hart, Ridgid power tools, [31] Ryobi, Homelite, Hoover, Vax, [32] Bissell, Dirt Devil. [33]
The electric car company Tesla, Inc. has faced dealership disputes in several U.S. states as a result of local laws. In the United States, direct manufacturer auto sales are prohibited in many states by franchise laws requiring that new cars be sold only by independent dealers. Tesla maintains that, to properly explain to their customers the ...
Resale price maintenance (RPM) or, occasionally, retail price maintenance is the practice whereby a manufacturer and its distributors agree that the distributors will sell the manufacturer's product at certain prices (resale price maintenance), at or above a price floor (minimum resale price maintenance) or at or below a price ceiling (maximum resale price maintenance).
Right to repair is a legal right for owners of devices and equipment to freely modify and repair products such as automobiles, electronics, and farm equipment. Right to repair may also refer to the social movement of citizens putting pressure on their governments to enact laws protecting a right to repair. Common obstacles to repair include ...
The three-tier system of alcohol distribution is the system for distributing alcoholic beverages set up in the United States after the repeal of Prohibition. [1] The three tiers are importers or producers; distributors; and retailers. The basic structure of the system is that producers can sell their products only to wholesale distributors who ...
The investigation must evaluate all relevant economic factors that have a bearing on the state of the industry in question; if it is revealed that dumping is taking place and hurting domestic industry, the exporting company can raise its price to an agreed level in order to avoid anti-dumping import duties.
Here are the top 10 product-related dangers during the July Fourth weekend, ranked by increase in hospital visits compared with normal spring and summer weekends, according to our data. 1 ...