1.   Given consumer tastes, product prices are of fundamental importance in determining consumer expenditure patterns.

2.   And, clearly, consumer tastes have changed.

3.   But consumer tastes can be fickle.

4.   But it remains to be seen if the Japanese model can be transplanted to North America and Europe, where markets are more fragmented and consumer tastes vary.

5.   But with rapidly changing consumer tastes and lifestyles, improved technology and smaller competitors grabbing niches in the expanding beverage market, those days are over.

6.   Consumer tastes have as much to do with that as price and availability.

7.   Even emerging markets can still be competitive and demand an understanding of local business practices and consumer tastes.

8.   Every auto company is trying to speed up the development process to respond faster to changes in consumer tastes and demand.

9.   He has a track record of introducing new products to respond to consumer tastes in those markets.

10.   Honda, which responded quickest to the change in consumer tastes away from sedans to recreational vehicles like its popular CR-V, defied the trend.