1.   GMC was supposed to fill what company executives thought would always be a tiny niche at the high end of the market.

2.   Nationally, folk is a tiny niche market.

3.   The employee shopping portal market is still a tiny niche in e-commerce, with only a handful of young companies vying against each other.

4.   These venerable products, though long past their heyday, live on in tiny niches of the giant U.S. economy.

5.   Those competitors actually are few, since the midengine NSX has carved out a tiny niche in an already small segment of the market.

6.   At the CES gathering, hundreds of technology companies, ranging from giant Microsoft to tiny niche players, debuted everything from wired wrist watches to networked home appliances.