Everyone is trying to figure out how to capture customers.

A Younger Valentino Line The challenge to a mature design house is to maintain its appeal to longtime clients while capturing younger customers.

Meanwhile, Wal-Mart used its muscle to capture customers from mostly weaker competitors, enabling it to report an earnings gain of 4.1 percent in its fiscal third quarter.

So travel remains governed by restrictive bilateral treaties that prevent airlines from going head to head to capture customers with lower ticket prices.

On his walls, members of what he called Team 3,000 pinned outlines and diagrams of strategies to capture new foreign customers, especially in the United States.

Unlike the Quest, which has been designed to capture customers who may be new to minivans, the Sienna is aimed squarely at the traditional minivan audience: parents with children.

"Cataloguers are adding some sales in late December and capturing customers they might not have captured before, the procrastinators."

Most of the factories American companies are building abroad are meant to capture foreign customers, who account for an increasing share of the companies' sales and profits.

It's an effort to capture customers at a time when customers are trying to figure out exactly what they should be wearing.

"These coupons are one of the most effective ways to drive business because they capture new customers," said George Loesch, director of trade strategy for the Campbell Soup Company.