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Tesla sedan gets best Consumer Reports auto review of all time
2013-05-10 16:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Consumer Reports just gave the Tesla Model S Sedan its highest-ever score for an automobile. The glowing review and sky-high score of 99 out of 100 came in the same week that the 10-year-old auto manufacturer enjoyed its first profitable quarter. Some highlights from the breathless review: This electric luxury sports car, built by a small automaker based in Palo Alto, Calif., is brimming with innovation, delivers world-class performance, and is interwoven throughout with impressive attention...
BT Sport to be free for consumer BT Broadband customers
2013-05-09 14:15:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) BT has confirmed that BT Sport will be free to any consumer BT broadband customer. The company currently has more than five million homes taking BT broadband. To encourage people to switch broadband supplier, BT is offering new customers the BT Infinity fibre broadband service from GBP 15 per month or copper broadband from GBP 10. Customers wanting to take the BT Sport channels without BT broadband will pay GBP 15 per month for HD from BT via Sky's digital satellite platform or GBP 12 in standard definition. BT Sport will be available via BT's own TV service, Sky's digital satellite platform and also online or via a new app for access on PCs, smartphones and tablets. Customers who wish to watch BT Sport on their TVs will require a set top box. This will be a YouView or Vision+ box for BT TV customers or a Sky box if customers take the channels via Sky's digital satellite platform.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Targeting Extended-Service Contracts
2013-05-07 06:56:05| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
SITUATION: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which overseas buy here pay here dealers, might be targeting finance and insurance products such as extended-service contacts and other add-ons Important to know about dealer reserve is profit dealerships make by adding to customer's interest rate on loans negotiated at dealership Public dealer groups not worried that bureau is targeting dealer reserve since groups had shifted focus from profits on dealer reserve to making profits on F&I products AutoNation said it gets about two-thirds of its F&I revenue from sale of F&I products and about a third from dealer reserve SIGNIFICANCE: Bureau said it believes that letting dealers set final interest rate for customers creates potential for discrimination against legally protected groups such as minorities. Industry associations deny dealers or lenders tolerate discrimination Bureau lacks jurisdiction over dealerships except for BHPH, but bureau said in connection with dealer reserve that it would hold lenders responsible for dealership actions That approach also could apply to aftermarket products, routinely financed in same retail installment contract as loan Click here to get answers to questions that buy here pay here dealers have about dealing with the issues effectively. The Article Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Targeting Extended-Service Contracts appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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UPC Consumer
2013-05-06 16:38:04| Telecompaper Reports
This company profile analyses Dutch cable network operator UPC Netherlands. The report contains information on UPC Netherlands' current position and strategy and focusses on the consumer activities. It discusses the company's latest financial figures and gives an overview of its current network. The report provides details of the product portfolio of UPC Netherlands Consumer. It looks at the market in which UPC Netherlands Consumer operates as well as its competitors. Furthermore the profile reports on UPC Netherlands Consumer' marketing activities, including its customer strategy. Lastly the profile contains Telecompaper's SWOT analysis of UPC Netherlands Consumer.
Sharing the love in consumer research
2013-05-06 06:36:40| Beverages - Topix.net
A few months ago I made a case that the consumer research industry must start showing some loving to the people we care At a recent Coca-Cola conference in Atlanta, Eric Salama, CEO at Kantar Group, said the following in a presentation on the future of research: 'I won't call them consumers, I'll call them people.' Speaking to him afterwards, I ... (more)
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