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5 unusual facts about niche


Ma'Niche

She recorded her song "Dance if You're Dancing" along side her Embassy mate Eldie Anthony which was composed by Joshua Mitchell and produced by Roadz and Christina Grand at Bob Marley's recording studio Tuff Gong.

She began her career as a result of meeting music industry executive and producer Christina Grand in late 2010, who later partnered with her for her career.

Niche

Niche market, a focused, targetable portion (subset) of a market sector.

Developmental niche, a concept for understanding the cultural context of child development

Ecological niche, a term describing the relational position of an organism's species


Abel Boyer

For this reason doubtless Alexander Pope gave him a niche in The Dunciad (book ii. 413), where, under the soporific influence of Dulness, "Boyer the state, and Law the stage gave o'er" his crime, according to Pope's explanatory note, being that he was "a voluminous compiler of annals, political collections, &c."

Acorn Communicator

As a dedicated Prestel terminal with built-in word processing and spreadsheet capabilities, the Communicator found a niche market amongst travel agents in the United Kingdom and Italy, who used Prestel (and similar networks) as probably the earliest online booking service.

Afro-Rican

However, Techmaster P.E.B.'s and Bass 305's success in the new sub-genre of "car audio bass" created a niche that was still in its infancy circa 1991, and Rahming saw an opportunity.

Aircraft industry of Russia

Irkut has a portfolio of trainer and amphibious aircraft projects and competes in the onboard electronics and avionics niche.

Atlixco

The center of this decoration is a niche with an image of the Virgin of Mercy, who shelters Mercedarian founder Pedro Nolasco and other saints with her cloak.

Boutique

For example, before the release of the Wii, a Time Magazine article suggested that Nintendo could become a "boutique video-game company", producing games for niche audiences, rather than trying to compete directly with Microsoft and Sony.

Buddleja davidii 'Orchid'

Buddleja davidii 'Orchid' is an American cultivar raised by Anne Rainey of Columbia, South Carolina, and introduced to commerce by Niche Gardens, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Christophe Dechavanne

In 1987, he went to work for the newly privatized channel TF1 : his first show, Panique sur le 16, was not a success, but he soon found his niche with the late-night weekly talk-show Ciel mon mardi !, a program which could be compared to Jerry Springer productions in United States.

Chuckii Booker

Chuckii has carved a sizeable niche for himself as a record producer for artists such as Lalah Hathaway, Troop, En Vogue, Angela Winbush, Diana Ross, Anastacia, Commissioned, Lionel Richie, and Bette Midler.

DITTO

The company carries brands such as Ray-Ban, Persol, Chloé, TAG Heuer, and Vera Wang, as well as niche fashion and boutique brands like Jason Wu, Selima Optique, Alain Mikli, Anglo American, and John Varvatos.

Ezra Baya Lawiri

In July 2008 a statue of Lawiri was installed in niche 174 on the Great West Front of Salisbury Cathedral.

F-segment

A small niche is currently occupied by high tradition brands such us Bentley and Rolls Royce.

Fairport Convention discography

Founded in 1967 and initially covering songs by artists such as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, they developed a devoted niche following by providing electrified and upbeat versions of traditional folk tunes mixed with their own compositions.

Feature phone

During the mid-2000s, best-selling feature phones such as the fashionable flip-phone Motorola Razr, multimedia Sony Ericsson W580i, and the LG Black Label Series not only occupied the mid-range pricing in a wireless provider's lineup, they made up the bulk of retail sales as smartphones from BlackBerry and Palm were still considered a niche category for business use.

GlobalView

Though the software it was based on had once been far ahead of its time (in terms of its integration and use of a graphical user interface), the high cost of the processor and later low speed of the emulator doomed it to poor sales (almost exclusively old customers of the Alto and Star, recognized as precursors of the Apple Macintosh but in themselves expensive corporate niche machines).

Golf property

The term golf property is used to describe a niche in the property market: residential real estate linked to a golf course.

Grupo Niche

Some other singers from Niche throughout its history include Alvaro del Castillo, La Coco Lozano, Tuto Jiménez, Saulo Sanchez, Tito Gomez, Moncho Santana, Charlie Cardona as well as Willy Garcia and Javier Vasquez, now members of the group 'Son de Cali'.

Headlines Today

The channel was launched in the year 2003 is a sister channel of the Hindi Aaj Tak news channel and is one of the four niche news channels from the TV Today Network stable.

Hideo Azuma

He also began publishing science fiction themed works in many different niche magazines such as Kisō Tengai and Peke.

IBM System/3

Although the IBM System/38 and its successor the AS/400 and iSeries filled the same market niche, they used a radically different architecture, based on the failed IBM Future Systems project.

Julia Zaetta

New Woman - one of the most successful Australian magazine launches of all time in to this niche upmarket womens' segment.

Krasnogorskiy Zavod

KMZ continued to be present at international photography fairs such as Photokina or PMA and even presented some new products, today the company found a niche in Rifle scopes, Night vision scopes, Binoculars and other optical products.

Laoag Cathedral

The top of the façade holds a recessed niche that showcases the image of the city's patron saint, San Guillermo (Saint William).

Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor

In the main hall, called the "Great Hall of Man and Civilizations's First Ancestor" (人文初祖大殿), stands a relief sculpture of the Yellow Emperor, as well as a niche shrine decorated with the four great spirit animals of Chinese astrology: the Azure Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Black Tortoise.

Mértola Municipality

Nevertheless, the inner arrangement of the naves of the church, with four naves and several columns, strongly resembles that of the original mosque, and the interior of the church still has the mihrab, the decorated niche that indicates the direction of the Mecca.

Michael Tonello

He then became a reseller of high-end luxury goods, finding his niche selling Hermès items, particularly the Birkin bag.

New and Selected Poems

David Orr, writing in The New York Times, described Menashe as a "wry but essentially optimistic poet, and his best writing demonstrates that the stylistic limitations we choose quickly cease to be limitations, even when we identify them as such", singling out Menashe's poem "The Niche" for praise.

Ogguere

Deciding to disregard the lucrative reggaeton niche, Edrey and Ulises' idea was to use all the Cuban rhythms and create a fusion of Mambo, Son, Chachacha and mix them with funkier sounds, like the rumba.

Onix Audio

Onix Audio started assembly of the ONIX brand of Onix hi-fi in Brighton England in 1984, two years after a small number of unlabeled and unbranded head amplifiers ( No brand Name printed on them or used ) had been sold to niche dealers in the UK by Craig Hill via Brighton HiFi where he worked with his father.

Pareiasaur

It is clear that these animals evolved from Nycteroleterids, perhaps a Rhipaeosaur-like form to fill the large herbivore niche(or guild) that had been occupied early in the Permian period by the Caseid pelycosaurs and before then the Diadectid amphibians and Edaphosaur reptiles.

Pistacia terebinthus

In the eastern shores of the Mediterranean sea - Syria, Lebanon and Israel - a similar species, Pistacia palaestina, fills the same ecological niche as this species and is also known as terebinth.

Pride Magazine

Whilst many magazines have come and gone over this period, Pride has been the only stable strong title in this category and has over its 18 years become the dominant title in this market and been one of the few niche titles that attracts mainstream advertisers of the likes of Ford and Vodafone.

Pritchardia affinis

Its fruit was reportedly the preferred food of the now-extinct Ula-ai-hawane--a niche that has been seemingly filled by the introduced Lavender Waxbill.

Rudrapatna

Several noted musicians such as R.S. Keshavamurthy, R.K. Ramanathan, R.K. Srikantan, R.K.Srinivasamurthy, R.K. Suryanarayana, R.N. Thyagarajan and R.N. Tharanathan (also known as Rudrapatnam Brothers), R.K. Raghavan, R.K. Prakash, R K Prasanna Kumar, R.K. Padmanabha, R.S. Ramakanth, R.N. Sreelatha and Rathnamala Prakash (a renowned light music artist also), who have carved a niche for themselves, hail from this village.

Sander Gilman

Gilman’s thesis concerning this subject is that the prejudices of biology in the nineteenth century classified the Jew as being somehow feminine, a stigma that Freud sought to escape by carving out a scientific niche of his own.

Shaheed Ganj Mosque

It had a projecting mehrab (niche), facing toward Mecca as in all mosques, in the centre of the west wall where the imam leads the prayers.

St Cuthbert's Church, Holme Lacy

This was sculpted by Matthew Noble in white marble, and depicts a female figure standing in a niche.

St Medardus and St Gildardus Church, Little Bytham

The church also has several Romanesque details dating from the Norman era, including a Priest's Door ("uncommonly ornate", according to Nikolaus Pevsner) with a finely carved tympanum; the empty circular niche in the tympanum is said to have held a relic; the birds in roundels to either side are probably eagles, as one is legendarily supposed to have sheltered Medard from the rain.

Synagogue in the Agora of Athens

During an excavation in the summer of 1977, a piece of Pentelic marble apparently once part of a curvilinear frieze over a doorway or niche was discovered a few meters from the northeast corner of the Metroon.

Tiny Ron Taylor

His teacher figured that in a niche category populated by actors with screen names such as "André the Giant," the name "Tiny Ron" would stand out.

Travel photography

Amateur travel photography is often shared online through photo sharing websites like Flickr or niche travel photography websites such as TrekEarth.

Vacuum sewer

Vacuum sewers were first installed in Europe in 1882 but until the last 30 years it had been relegated to a niche market.

Vivean Gray

Vivean Gray (born Jean Vivra Gray; 20 July 1924 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is a British actress, who found her niche playing gossipy characters in Australian television series.

VoodooPC

Voodoo was originally started as a niche PC maker in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Waitakere Mega Centre

In April 1997, Waltus committed to a NZD $5.2 million expansion and refurbishment of the centre, with the intention of turning it into a niche bulk retailing centre.

WidowPC

The articles stated that Michael Dell contacted WidowPC, along with Richard Garriott and Robert Garriott and several other small, high performance boutique computer manufacturers for information about the computer gaming niche several months prior to acquiring Alienware.

World Entertainment News Network

It began as the World Rock News Network (WRNN) and the company soon established a niche for itself, providing music news to subscribers including MTV, BBC, ABC and Russia's daily youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Youth marketing

Examples of brands embraced by youth and used as examples in marketing cases are: Vans Footwear, it used youth marketing tactics to grow from a niche sneaker brand to a successful international business and Mountain Dew, a well known soft drink brand that expanded market share through youth marketing tactics in the 1990s.


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