Indian Apparel Sector: Industry Profile – now available through Aarkstore

This industry profile helps to gain an insight into the evolution of the industry and competitive dynamics prevalent in the market. It discusses the significant developments in the industry and analyzes the key trends and issues. The profile provides inputs in strategic business planning of industry professionals.

This profile is of immense help to management consultants, analysts, market research organizations and corporate advisors.

The objective and scope of various sections of our industry profile has been discussed below.

Industry Snapshot

This section gives a holistic overview of the industry. It starts with defining the market and goes on to give historical and current market size figures. It also clearly illustrates the major segments of the market which would be discussed later on in the report.

Industry Analysis

It involves a comprehensive analysis of the industry and its market segments. This section discusses the key developments that have taken place in the industry. It also identifies and analyzes the driving factors and challenges of the industry. A description of the regulatory structure tells us about the major regulatory bodies, laws and government policies.

Country Analysis

This section presents the key facts & figures of the country. It also discusses the political environment and the macroeconomic indicators. It analyzes government stability and economic growth of the country.

Competitor Assessment

This section compares the major competitors in the industry. The Competitors At-a-Glance is aimed at giving an overview of the competitive landscape in the industry.

Company Profiles

The major companies are profiled in this section. For each company, business description is given followed by financial highlights and recent developments.

Industry Outlook

This section presents the outlook of the industry. The analyst opinion and projections help us in evaluating the future of the industry. It gives an insight into the investment opportunities present in the sector.

 

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Teen Apparel Market Report: 2008 Edition – now available through Aarkstore

Teen apparel market is growing rapidly and has become a significant segment of the apparel industry. Retailers are adapting new techniques to sustain teenagers interest by offering innovative designs and introducing new products. The teen segment is often deemed inconsistent due to changing fashion preferences and is always looking for the next fashion hit.

One of the growth drivers of teen apparel market is teens growing population which is growing faster than the overall US population growth. The report analyzes teen shopping behavior, buying preferences and favorite brands. It also focuses on their annual fashion spending and their budget apportion.

The report also gives an overview of Canadian teen apparel market and major factors driving teen apparel industry. It profiles major competitors in the market, their business strategies and financial overview.

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Indian Textiles Sector: Industry Profile – now available through Aarkstore

This industry profile helps to gain an insight into the evolution of the industry and competitive dynamics prevalent in the market. It discusses the significant developments in the industry and analyzes the key trends and issues. The profile provides inputs in strategic business planning of industry professionals.

This profile is of immense help to management consultants, analysts, market research organizations and corporate advisors.

The objective and scope of various sections of our industry profile has been discussed below.

Industry Snapshot
This section gives a holistic overview of the industry. It starts with defining the market and goes on to give historical and current market size figures. It also clearly illustrates the major segments of the market which would be discussed later on in the report.

Industry Analysis
It involves a comprehensive analysis of the industry and its market segments. This section discusses the key developments that have taken place in the industry. It also identifies and analyzes the driving factors and challenges of the industry. A description of the regulatory structure tells us about the major regulatory bodies, laws and government policies.

Country Analysis
This section presents the key facts & figures of the country. It also discusses the political environment and the macroeconomic indicators. It analyzes government stability and economic growth of the country.

Competitor Assessment
This section compares the major competitors in the industry. The Competitors At-a-Glance is aimed at giving an overview of the competitive landscape in the industry.

Company Profiles
The major companies are profiled in this section. For each company, business description is given followed by financial highlights and recent developments.

Industry Outlook
This section presents the outlook of the industry. The analyst opinion and projections help us in evaluating the future of the industry. It gives an insight into the investment opportunities present in the sector.

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Indian Lingerie Industry: Trends and Opportunities – now available through Aarkstore

India holds immense growth potential for the lingerie industry, which is evident from the entry of large international brands in the Indian market in the last few years. A key factor characterizing the blooming Indian lingerie market is the increasing size of the organized market and the declining share of the unorganized market resulting in growing independent brands taking charge of the market. In addition, growing income levels of Indians and their changing lifestyles has rechristened lingerie from just an undergarment to a fashion clothing item, at least in the urban centers.

Times have changed for the better for the Indian women like never before in terms of fashion style and statement coupled with growing wealth that is helping the growth of the organized lingerie industry. From being a market worth Rs. 780 crore (US$175.9 million) in 2003, the organized lingerie market has almost doubled to Rs. 1645 crore (US$370.3 million) bustling business in the last five years.

Trade analysts and the industry insiders believe that this is because the whole scale of the Indian market has improved beyond recognition during the last five years following the advent of multinational brands in the market place and the growth of organized retail. This, perhaps, is the reason why the premium and super-premium segment of the lingerie industry, with brassieres priced above Rs. 200 (US$5) and mostly characterized by the presence of international brands, are witnessing higher growth compared to mid-market and low/economy segments.

In view of the current situation, the premium and super-premium segments of the industry are advancing following a consumer shift from economy and mid-market segments to the premium segment, while the low and economy segment is gaining from the industry being more organized.

Characterizing the premium segment are either international brands or joint venture of Indian manufacturers with international companies. Lovable, Enamor and Triumph have successfully established themselves as premium lingerie brands and brands that are in expansion mode include Etam, Benetton, La Perla and About U.

The mid-market segment is characterized by the presence of national players like Maxwell Industries (with Daisy Dee brand), BodyCare, Groversons, Red Rose, Juliet, Jockey, and Libertina.

Factors like growth in income level, preference for recognizable brands and rapid growth of organized retail is anticipated to increase the current share of the organized lingerie market of 28% in the next three years.

The study titled “Indian Lingerie Industry: Trends and Opportunities” analyzes the overall Indian lingerie market in the context of growth and developments in the niche segment of the apparel industry. The apparel and textile industry has also been examined in the first section of the report.

This study is an attempt to explore the lingerie industry through primary and secondary research and to bring out the market potential and major industry trends. As classified on the basis of price, the three broad segments of the Indian lingerie industry – low and economy, mid-market and premium and super-premium – have been analyzed in-depth to understand the growth pattern and functioning of the leading players in the respective segments. Further, supply chain of the Indian lingerie industry has been assessed and major sales channels for lingerie evaluated.

The positioning of the leading players in different segments has been analyzed in terms of brands, collaboration and distribution.

The survey on consumer and retailers helped in developing an understanding of the market from both the business and consumer perspective.

Research Methodology

This study was conducted in the four metropolitan cities – Delhi (National Capital Region), Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai.

From the consumer perspective, the survey was administered to a random sample of 1600 women, 400 each from the four metropolitan cities, who had purchased brassieres and briefs for themselves in the past 12 months.

From the business perspective, the study interviewed 80 retailers, 20 from each metropolitan city to understand the performance and functioning of leading lingerie brands. Further, chief executives and prominent people from leading lingerie manufacturing companies were also interviewed to gain an insight on the major developments in the industry.
 
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US Textiles Sector: Industry Profile – now available through Aarkstore

This industry profile helps to gain an insight into the evolution of the industry and competitive dynamics prevalent in the market. It discusses the significant developments in the industry and analyzes the key trends and issues. The profile provides inputs in strategic business planning of industry professionals.

This profile is of immense help to management consultants, analysts, market research organizations and corporate advisors.

The objective and scope of various sections of our industry profile has been discussed below.

Industry Snapshot
This section gives a holistic overview of the industry. It starts with defining the market and goes on to give historical and current market size figures. It also clearly illustrates the major segments of the market which would be discussed later on in the report.

Industry Analysis
It involves a comprehensive analysis of the industry and its market segments. This section discusses the key developments that have taken place in the industry. It also identifies and analyzes the driving factors and challenges of the industry. A description of the regulatory structure tells us about the major regulatory bodies, laws and government policies.

Country Analysis
This section presents the key facts & figures of the country. It also discusses the political environment and the macroeconomic indicators. It analyzes government stability and economic growth of the country.

Competitor Assessment
This section compares the major competitors in the industry. The Competitors At-a-Glance is aimed at giving an overview of the competitive landscape in the industry.

Company Profiles
The major companies are profiled in this section. For each company, business description is given followed by financial highlights and recent developments.

Industry Outlook
This section presents the outlook of the industry. The analyst opinion and projections help us in evaluating the future of the industry. It gives an insight into the investment opportunities present in the sector.
 
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Global market review of tomorrow’s apparel industry – forecasts to 2014

This brand new report aims to offer insights into how the apparel industry will change over the next five or so years. Its difficult to predict exactly what will happen in the future, but our analysts have worked with some of the industrys leading executives to arrive at an outlook over a short-term period, which aims to offer as realistic a prediction as is possible.
Tackling the key issues of the global apparel industry, the report looks at future sourcing by market, sourcing issues, ethics and corporate social responsibility, clothing quality and materials developments, technology and systems, colouration/finishing, infrastructure and shipping.

The report contains a wealth of unique data and analysis about the state of todays apparel market, as well as the existing trends and how they will impact the apparel market of tomorrow. Data includes values of textiles exports from key manufacturing countries to the European countries from 2003 to 2014.

The report first discusses future outsourcing markets by country, showing how and why countries will become – or cease to be – global players in this most fickle of markets. Additionally, relationships between suppliers and buyers, as well as the impact of the “flat world” on nations and specific product lines are extensively presented and discussed.

Chapter 1 – Future outsourcing markets
Textiles formed over 80% of overall exports in 2007 for countries like Cambodia. This chapter looks at the major global trends such as the slowdown of powerhouses China and India, and where their market share of apparel and textiles exporting has gone and will move to. With insight from industry executives:

Chinese firms are being impacted by “the threats of increasing labour costs, the strengthening RMB, and higher raw material prices”, as stated by Ms. Zheng Luo, CEO and Chairperson of OmniaLuo – a developer and manufacturer of fine womens apparel based in Shanghai.

The chapter goes on to take retailers points of view about outsourcing. It then reviews each major future outsourcing country, in terms of 2007 and 2008 performance, the countries philosophies and approaches and picks case studies of apparel manufacturing in each country.

Chapter 2 – Sourcing issues
Global sourcing has become the key strategy for survival and growth for several companies in the apparel market segment. This chapter summarises the key challenges faced in global sourcing, and rates the factors in choice of sourcing locations by importance.

Chapter 3 – Ethics and CSR
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a critical consideration for tomorrows apparel industry. This chapter looks at international standards and CSR in outsourcing countries.

Chapter 4 – Production trends
We summarise major countries recent production statistics, look at tomorrows productive techniques and identify the main drivers for real-time operations.

Chapter 5 – TBC Technology and systems
This chapter looks at modern apparel production issues such as design innovations, rapidly evolving fashion styles, shorter runs for each model and improving the time to market. Buyers are presently evolving to deal with global sourcing, managing a global supplier network and achieving higher quality cost-efficiencies from increasingly diverse locations. Selected technologies that will be used more and more from 2008-2014 are reviewed.

Upgrade to a corporate user licence version of this report and receive a complimentary excel file containing all data tables included in the report, allowing you to share data more efficiently with colleagues.

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Global market review of performance apparel – forecasts to 2014

The global market size of performance sportswear is currently estimated at US$6.40bn, having risen 19.4% over the last four years, and is expected to grow a further 18.75% to US$7.6bn by 2014.

It is important to understand why and how yesterdays performance apparel emerged in order to better consider and speculate how it is likely to develop in the future. The dynamics of the performance apparel sector are more akin to the dynamics of pharmaceutical and hi-tech industries, than to the high street textile industry, and this affects the way the sector behaves. It is both the theme and contention of this report that performance apparel is entering another stage in its evolution.

In the days of prehistory, clothing covered the body, providing warmth, protection and, as time progressed, a degree of modesty. It then began to change from purely function, into fashion and function. Clothes delivered a statement about status, wealth and sophistication. Today, that statement has developed further into one about being fit for purpose, clothing that performs. In a 21st century that is prone to regulation – and full of health and safety standards – fitness for purpose is an important issue.

This is the third edition of its review of the performance apparel market. In the previous edition, the idea was put forward that the consumer – in the developed world, at any rate – is now accustomed to the idea of performance, and expects performance from both garments and fabrics. Performance is now a given.

In this latest edition the sector is reviewed worldwide, by analysing a global industry which has two segments: sportswear and protective clothing, both including performance apparel. As a result of this, performance apparel is sold in two different ways, at two different price points. As sportswear, it is sold to the individual consumer at retail prices. As protective wear, it is primarily a B2B sale to the wearers employer at wholesale prices.

This report provides a comprehensive review of the global performance apparel market, including a definition of the market, market estimates 2004-2014, market dynamics and key strategic issues, evolution of the market (past present and future) and the use of textiles in safeguarding the health of the human body.

Report coverage:

Chapter one provides an executive summary of the reports findings.

Chapter two offers an introduction, looking at the importance and expectation of performance in apparel.

Chapter three – Performance apparel defined
We consider the nature of performance apparel within the two clothing segments of sportswear and protective clothing, both of which have already been the subject of other reports. Figures from both reports are used to quantify the larger market within which performance apparel sits.

Chapter four – Performance apparel market estimates
We break down the performance apparel market between the two elements mentioned in the previous chapter. Value forecasts are made for overall consumption of both segments of performance apparel (in their retail and wholesale values) for 2008 and as a forecast to 2014. Estimates are also combined at wholesale value to understand the potential in this sector for suppliers and manufacturers.

Chapter five – Performance apparel market dynamics
The sector is reviewed in terms of a number of key strategic issues which it has to address. These are based around the product life cycle theory and the context in which it happens, looking at the industry players and their product attributes, customers, suppliers, marketing and competition. We also review non-industry issues affecting this market such as economic deterioration, sports participation, regulation, the environment and industrialisation of the developed world. Finally we look at potential scenarios for further evolution and the future of the market. Will companies and their performance products migrate to a new growth path, mature and decline gracefully, or collapse altogether?

Chapter six – Safe guarding the human body
Finally, one particular growth path for performance apparel is considered – the use of textiles with sensors to monitor and safeguard the health of the human body. Case studies include Smartexs smart clothes, thermal monitoring and show technology.

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Application Development and Lifecycle Management: The Impact of Agile Practices on People, Processes, and Tools – Aarkstore Enterprise

The options available for building software applications have never been so wide ranging as they are today. This is largely to do with the impact of the Web, with different solution models available depending on user needs, from infrastructure to end device considerations. The most recent trend of cloud computing is also opening new possibilities that are lowering the cost barrier, increasing access to high performance computing, and also lowering the skill barrier for non-programmer information workers, whether in SMEs or departments in large organisations, to build business applications. KEY FINDINGS – ALM systems have improved considerably from the first generation of products; the new generation is Web-based and strong on collaboration. – Agile methodology adoption has entered mainstream development and is making developers and managers rethink how they carry out application development. – Agile practices are having a major influence on the ALM solutions market; supporting Agile processes is a hot area. – ALM system architecture identifies core lifecycle functions, including process support with workflow, integrated data repository, and reporting. – Business Intelligence (BI) for application development has now become an ALM system fixture, offering advanced analytics applied to project statistics. – Software estimation remains a niche activity but should, be a core lifecycle activity in ALM. – Defect and Issue Management is another core activity that cross-cuts the application lifecycle and is supported well by leading ALM systems. – ALM system users should have read-and-write features for process guides, allowing users to modify content, supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange. – ALM systems that alter the functionality exposed depending on the process selected represent an advanced, state-of-the-art technology, not yet seen in the market. – The rise in Software Systems Engineering reflects the increasing use of software CATALYST Application development continues to evolve with processes and methodologies receiving significant attention through Agile practices, while on the tooling side a new generation of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products are appearing with process and workflow support figuring largely. June 2009 ANALYSIS Introduction Software application development is one of those subjects that never disappears but is always evolving. Since the last general survey Report on this subject – Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), published in September 2005 – there has been a lot of activity in the ALM field. With our colleagues in Datamonitor we published an ALM Decision Matrix in 2007 that looked at the vendor ALM suite market, and we now repeat that exercise in this Report with all the leading vendors participating. (The Datamonitor Decision Matrix also replaces what used to be the Market Lifecycle Ratings in Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports). The areas that are currently receiving the greatest activity in application development are: – Agile development and Agile project management. – ALM. – Testing and test management. – Enterprise Web 2.0. The application development subjects that are on the horizon, are: – Development in the Cloud. – Parallel programming (especially General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units – or GPGPU). – Extension of ALM to overlap IT governance. – RESTful Service Oriented Architecture. (REST is Representational State Transfer). While what and how applications are being developed evolves, developers are still needed to programme the machines and create these applications. It had been considered that advanced modelling such as Model Driven Development (MDD) in the guise of software factories would at some point deliver on the next leap forward, a technological breakthrough such as a higher abstraction compiler that takes models rather than a high-level programming language to churn out the machine code. The Object Management Group’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA) appeared to be moving in that direction. This did not transpire, and is not likely to in the immediate future. These themes are expanded upon below.

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Retail Futures: UK Food & Grocery Q2 2009 – Aarkstore Enterprise

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Retail Futures: UK Electricals Q2 2009 – Aarkstore Enterprise

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Retail Futures: UK Clothing & Footwear Q2 2009 – Aarkstore Enterprise

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 This unique tool takes account of the latest retail events. It tracks short term changes in retail and quantifies their impact on category sales.
 The reliable and accurate data exposes opportunities for growth and is a key operational planning tool to aid tactical and strategic decision-making.
 It allows you to benchmark performance with confidence and set effective targets to help maximise performance.

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Retail Futures: UK Furniture & Floorcoverings Q2 2009 – Aarkstore Enterprise

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Retail Futures: UK Sector Summary Q2 2009 – Aarkstore Enterprise

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Retail Futures: UK Health & Beauty Q2 2009 – Aarkstore Enterprise

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UK Department Stores 2009 – Aarkstore Enterprise

The UK department store sector has been through a period of change since the millennium driven by exits and consolidation. It now faces further contraction as the non-food sector suffers during the recession. This report examines expenditure trends in the sector, the performance of the market leaders and highlights threats and opportunities available to drive future growth.

Scope

Consumer expenditure via department stores 1999-2009e, growth and inflation/deflation trends, store numbers, space and sales densities.
Market shares 2004-2009e, sales, space, operating profits and margin and sales and profit densities of Top Ten retailers in the sector.
Trading and space performance, with product allocation, of Top Ten department store operators, including analysis and outlook for each.

Highlights

The department store sector came to a virtual halt in 2008, with 0.1% growth. The core department store shopper, the 45+s saw their incomes cut by falling interest rates, and were hit by pension worries, declining house prices and fuel and food inflation. In 2009 we expect the market to be even tougher, falling -2.6% to £13.95bn.

In 2008 and 2009 together, the sector is set to increase its floorspace by 5.6%. This extra capacity is coming into a market with consumer demand in steep decline. As a result, average sales densities per square foot will decline by 5.7% in 2009 alone, to £353 per sq ft, putting operating profit margins under severe pressure.

Supermarkets are an increasing competitive threat to department stores. The expansion of their non-food ranges as well as the development of new formats, Internet retailing and higher quality products have the potential to take sales from midmarket operators. This is particularly true in a climate where customers are trading down.

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UK Health & Beauty Retailers 2009 – Aarkstore Enterprise

The UK health & beauty market has so far proven to be one of the most resilient retail sectors during the recession. Nevertheless the market is still challenging with grocers continuing to build their leading share. This reports examines expenditure trends, the performance of the market leaders and highlights the opportunities in the sector as well as the threats.

Scope

Health & beauty expenditure 1999-2009e, category and channel performance 2004-2008 with forecasts for 2009.
Retailers’ market shares 2004-2009e, sales, space, operating profits and margin and sales densities of Top 13 retailers in the sector.
Outlook for the market including changing consumer shopping habits, emerging trends, and growth strategies for health & beauty retailers.

Highlights

The £16.3bn health & beauty market is set to grow by 2.7% in 2009, compared with a total retail decline of 0.6% making it the second best performing category overall. Despite weak consumer confidence and lower retail spending the sector is proving resilient during the recession.

Grocers continue to make big market share gains increasing their lead on the specialists. Alongside rapid space growth, grocers have been competing aggressively on price, with extensively advertised promotions. This, as well as their convenience, continues to make them attractive during recessionary periods.

Men offer high growth potential with men’s toiletries the fastest growing category in the market for the second year running in 2008. Sales grew by 7.5% to increase the value of the male toiletries market to just over £1bn.

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Formulate strategy by using the comprehensive spending category data, trends and individual retailer’s trading performances.
Compare performance across different channels, formats and individual retailers to identify threats and opportunities

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Drug and Device Combination – Aarkstore Enterprise

Drug-device combination is defined as the combination of drugs and medical devices that can be chemically or physically united or co-packaged as separate, cross labeled products. The commercialization cycle from R&D to product shows the immense potential of the bundled offering. Currently, the market has a potential of US$10.6 billion and has been experiencing a growth of 15% CAGR for the past two years. In the next five years, the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.8%. A future view of the drug-device combination is that these products will make single component medical devices obsolete.

The drug-eluting stents (DES) market is the largest segment in the drug-device combination market. This is supported by the fact that cardiovascular applications constitute about 64% of the entire drug-device combination applications market. However, it is the relatively smaller market of antimicrobial catheter that offers the highest growth potential over the next five years in the overall market.

The DES market is further segmented into stent grafts, coronary stents and peripheral vascular stents. Though coronary stents has the highest market share, peripheral vascular stents is expected to have the highest growth rate till 2014. The fastest growing macro-market of antimicrobial catheter is segmented into micro-markets such as urological catheter, cardiovascular catheter, peripherally inserted central catheter, oximetry catheter, thermodilution catheter and wound drainage catheter. Closed loop glucose monitor and insulin pump is also expected to record a high growth rate for the period 2009 to 2014. The two major segments: steroid eluting electrodes and photodynamic therapy are estimated to see the slowest growth rate due to a slow development of new products in these markets.

The challenges crippling the growth of the market in the future are expected to be the issues involved in cross industry partnerships, jurisdiction issues, patient safety and interoperability issues.

The drug-device combination market is not fragmented and the key players in this market are Medtronic, Boston Scientific Corp., Edwards Life sciences Corp., Stryker Corp., QLT Inc. etc. The maximum number of new product developments is expected to take place in the bone graft substitutes, advanced wound care products and antimicrobial catheter markets. Our patent analysis indicates that E.U. has filed for the maximum number of patents followed by the U.S.

There is an immense scope of collaboration between the drugs and medical devices companies in the areas of closed loop glucose monitor and insulin pump, bone graft substitutes and advanced wound care products market. However, the antibiotic bone cements and advanced wound care market is expected to face stiff competition in the next five years to come.

The incremental benefits of these combination products over the regular medical devices are increased efficiency, reduction in overall cost of treatment along with the rising awareness. The market holds significant opportunity for the early movers albeit with extensive research to develop new and improved products at competitive prices. Successful strategic alliances between companies from the drugs and medical devices areas assist them in taking advantage of the existing technologies by avoiding capital expenditure in R&D and take the drug-device combination market to new heights.
 

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