Bottled water Quote by Greg Thain

“As the economy collapses prices remain high. This is, I guess, very Japanese. In some other countries there would be at least a few…

— Donald Richie

When the earthquake hit Christchurch in 2011, the factory that produces Marmite was closed for two years. The supermarket shelves were empty and people…

— Monica Galetti

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

— John Wilson

We believe our suppliers of materials have not been impacted. At this point, our customers have not asked us to do anything differently as…

— Paul Otellini

They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.

— Toshihiko Fukui

Japan is doing a big number on the yen, devaluing it.

— Donald Trump

Ever since September 11, I've been quite conservative in what we've ordered. We've never really been supply-demand anyway.

— James Jebbia

It's a pattern. Prices go up, consumers get angry, politicians investigate, nothing changes.

— Sean Comey

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

— Howard Stringer

Another dynamic of this last year was our increased penetration into the Japanese market.

— David Milne

“A weak competitor may resort to dropping prices because it is the only available action for increasing its volume in the short term to…

— Greg Thain

Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We…

— Howard Schultz