1.   As a result, Thomson Consumer Electronics ranks in the top three in market share in every consumer electronics category in which the company sells a product.

2.   As a consumer category, they have generated a good deal of the sunshine in an otherwise dreary retail stock environment.

3.   Account activity has been accelerating in the last week across many consumer product categories.

4.   Choices are healthier in the consumer notebook category, where Fujitsu and Toshiba also play.

5.   In other competitive consumer product categories, similar scrambles were on to vet Halloween-themed campaigns and promotions.

6.   It is stuck in a consumer category that lost some of its cache and may be fighting an uphill demographic battle.

7.   It is one of the few consumer product categories not dominated by a single company.

8.   Long considered a sideline for publishers, business books now make up the third-largest consumer category, after religion and romance.

9.   Local casualties in the consumer electronic category include Nobody Beats the Wiz and Fretter, which both exited the market recently.

10.   Mass-market products like detergents are typically sold to the broadest of consumer categories like women, families or anyone with dirty clothes.