Often, he said, the companies in the newly mature markets look better.

"So this will likely accelerate the development of a more mature market."

Iran is a mature market when it comes to medical equipment.

And there are other more mature markets in which our business can be expanded further.

There for the first time he faced a mature market with real competition.

Some companies see themselves as being in a mature market with limited growth horizons.

That's more than 10,000 people who were born from 1946 through 1964 crossing over daily into the mature market.

"It's a pretty mature market, so this is to be expected."

It soon found a niche in what had been thought to be a mature market.

Yet even production companies in mature markets are seeing extraordinary growth.