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New Approaches to Warranty Management, 6 March 2014
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March 6, 2014. New Approaches to Warranty Management:. For many years it was all about cost reduction. Now, there's little left to cut. And both manufacturers and retailers are looking for ways to improve the customer experience by launching new types of protection services and new generations of warranty automation systems. The tenth annual edition of the Warranty Chain Management Conference. Product innovation has been limited. Consumers are comfortable with the technology. Price points have declined m...
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Appliance Service Contract Market Shares, 10 October 2013
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October 10, 2013. Though the market has remained relatively flat for years, market shares are changing as online sales are gaining and new players are emerging. Still, six underwriters control 90% of the market share. After that was done, we never went back to finish the series. So what we're going to say is that our estimates are rough on both edges. They're rough in terms of estimating the amount of premiums paid by consumers for their service contracts, and they're rough in terms of what kind of p...
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Smartphone Warranties, 25 July 2013
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July 25, 2013. As with luxury cars, we're finding that the smarter the phone and the more advanced its features, the higher the warranty costs. And some of the smartest phones with the biggest market shares are now driving up the warranty costs of their manufacturers. The smarter the phone, the harder they fall. As these little computers get more compact and sophisticated, their warranty costs are escalating. And it's beginning to hurt some of the largest players. When we get into the smartphone market, ...
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Food Service Equipment Warranties, 13 June 2013
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June 13, 2013. Food Service Equipment Warranties:. The commercial appliances used in restaurants cost more to buy but less to keep in good working order. Over the past 10 years, the average warranty expense rates for professional food service equipment has been less than half as much as for home kitchen appliances. With the HVAC systems used to heat and cool the air, many of the same brands used in commercial office buildings are also sold into homes. Same goes for laundry: Whirlpool Corp. Those eight co...
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Mobile Phone Insurance Market Shares, 14 November 2013
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November 14, 2013. Mobile Phone Insurance Market Shares:. The top four wireless carriers in the U.S. collect more than $7.8 billion in protection plan premiums from their customers, and top electronics retailers collect an additional $4.3 billion for mobile phone service contracts. A handful of administration and insurance companies work with them. Likewise, With Asurion LLC paying its investors a billion-dollar dividend. To construct our market sizing, we started with a few data points and some assumpti...
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Auto Parts Supplier Warranty Report, April 24 2014
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April 24, 2014. Auto Parts Supplier Warranty Report:. Turns out it's the large truck and bus manufacturers and their engine, axle and transmission suppliers who haven't done much to reduce their warranty expenses over the past decade. Passenger car makers and suppliers of auto parts besides drivetrain components have done a much better job of cutting costs. In last week's newsletter. To arrive at this conclusion, we began with a list of 158 auto parts suppliers, and divided them into two groups: 26 that ...
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Extended Warranty Image Problems, Part 1, 19 September 2013
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September 19, 2013. Extended Warranty Image Problems, Part 1:. Service contract professionals, their customers, and the media can't seem to agree on what to call these warranty extensions. And the terms the experts prefer to use are far from the most popular. Even the regulators aren't very consistent with their language and terminology. At the Fourth Annual Extended Warranty and Service Contract Innovations Conference. Earlier this week, the industry's image problem was a major topic. But then along cam...
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Warranty Accruals per Vehicle, 11 July 2013
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July 11, 2013. Warranty Accruals per Vehicle:. The German OEMs still have the highest warranty costs worldwide, but the Japanese carmakers are no longer unopposed at the bottom. Both Fiat and Ford are cutting their warranty costs to within range of longtime low-cost leader Honda. And Toyota is well on its way to getting back to normal. Traditionally, we run this article during the week of the Fourth of July, when all our American readers have retreated to the beaches and lakes for their Independence Day ...
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The End of Warranty Cost-Cutting? 20 March 2014
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March 20, 2014. The End of Warranty Cost-Cutting? For ten straight years, manufacturers steadily reduced their warranty expense rates from over 1.8% of their sales revenue to under 1.3%. But in the eleventh year, the declines stopped coming. Could it be that there's no more left to cut? And have manufacturers instead begun to spend more on the customer experience? In 2013, it seems, manufacturers spent a little more on warranty, not by letting inefficiencies creep back into their processes, but by lettin...
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