Flexing Your Pricing Muscles Despite years of almost no inflation, you may have
more pricing power than you think.
If more consumers were contract - free, they would certainly have
more pricing power over their wireless carrier than they currently do.
Being bigger gave
them more pricing power when dealing with oil service contractors and greater leverage when negotiating with foreign governments.
This reduced concentration increases the company's leverage and gives
it more pricing power, manifesting in its growing operating profit (NOPAT) margins.
Landlords think pent - up demand could give
them more pricing power as seniors who held off...
Not exact matches
While battery -
powered flight is attractive, especially as fuel
prices have recently surged to
more than three - year highs, challenges abound.
About 2 inches wide, the cameras don't look like much
more than tiny gray boxes, but they pack a surprising amount of
power and versatility — especially for their $ 300
price tag.
If enough customers don't pay, if the panels» performance degrades
more quickly than expected over time, or if
power prices go out of whack the investments could go south.
If economic conditions have created a market in which the product you're selling is in great demand and low supply, that gives you
more bargaining
power to name your
price.
Why it's revolutionary: Yumani is a site that tries to give consumers
more power by letting them request products at lower
prices.
DETROIT, March 2 - If U.S. «Domestic producers of steel would make
more money, while domestic consumers of steel would make less money,» said Steve DuBuc, a director at consulting firm AlixPartners» automotive and industrial practice, noting that U.S. steel makers will «have increased
pricing power» as steel imports become
more expensive.
Price difference makes profitable to export cheaper hydro
power from the Nordic market to Germany, which relies
more on coal and gas to generate
power.
The Nordic region relies on hydroelectric
power for
more than 50 percent of its
power generation, and change in precipitation is an important factor in setting
prices.
Apple and two publishers, Penguin and Macmillan, are holding out and saying that their «agency
pricing» deal was designed to counter Amazon's growing
power and therefore make the ebook market
more competitive, not less.
A few years later, after its transition from DVDs - by - mail to streaming was better established, it had a stronger foundation to build the original content that put it on an equal footing with rivals, like Time Warner's HBO, in luring customers and to build
pricing power for a
more profitable future.
In order to keep the
price point low, they sacrifice computational
power, which means they can not support the
more sophisticated image processing programs.
But this glut has given buyers
more options and some
more bargaining
power to push back against
prices they think are unfair.
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If sellers get
more power, they force
price up.
Retail investors don't have bulk
pricing power and therefore will pay
more for the same fund in an IRA most of the time.
The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the
prices that the banks are inflating are asset
prices — real estate
prices, bond and stock
prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the
power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even
more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.
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You can increase competition with anti-trust enforcement, and regulate natural monopolies and both (in the case of the newly merged Time Warner Cable), create greater transparency of
prices, use government purchasing
power, restore previous
price controls (and please a federal usury law at no
more than 15 %, to prevent debt bubbles of higher inflation).
More affluent users with more buying power in markets like the US, UK, and Canada command higher ad prices, effectively subsidizing the social network for those in developing nations where ad rates are lo
More affluent users with
more buying power in markets like the US, UK, and Canada command higher ad prices, effectively subsidizing the social network for those in developing nations where ad rates are lo
more buying
power in markets like the US, UK, and Canada command higher ad
prices, effectively subsidizing the social network for those in developing nations where ad rates are lower.
Mr Ward, dubbed «Chocfinger» due to his influence over the cocoa
price, blamed the rising
power of algorithmic and systems - based trading for making position - taking based on «fundamental» supply and demand factors
more difficult.
There's
more to utilities than the
price of
power; Reaves Asset Management uses that fact to capture alpha in the space.
What's
more important to world oil demand - gasoline
prices in the U.S. that are nearly $ 4 a gallon, or
power rationing in China?
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In October and November, venture capitalists concentrated
more investments on financial services and infrastructure related initiatives such as tools for addressing
price volatility,
power efficiency and security.
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And China's depreciating currency amplifies the effect, since it cuts the purchasing
power of Chinese buyers and puts even
more downward pressure on global commodity
prices.
Because the computer
power required to process larger blocks could
price out some smaller miners, critics worry that adopting Bitcoin Cash's approach will lead to
power being concentrated in the hands of companies that can afford
more and better equipment.
«This has led to a decrease in competition for listings across Greater Vancouver, giving rise to new market conditions where prospective homeowners have
more power at the bargaining table, causing
prices to soften.»
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Reduced
pricing power, combined with the eventual end of its federal tax credit, will make the company's already precarious path to profitability that much
more difficult.
And when creditors turned their economic gains from this process into political
power to shift the tax burden onto wage earners and industry, this raised the cost of living and doing business — by
more than technology was able to lower
prices.
Prices for electricity would be 4 percent lower by 2033 with a transition to
more wind, solar and hydroelectric
power than a persistent reliance on coal and natural gas, according to a report by Calgary - based environmental research firm Pembina Institute and Clean Energy Canada, a Vancouver - based organization that promotes renewable energy.
It is not known if he took into account such factors as the decline in
prices for equipment and increased cost of production, which annually requires
more power and capacity.
That
pricing power seems to be becoming even stronger during the downturn as pipelines consolidate and expansion of alternatives for moving fossil fuels become
more difficult due to capital constraints.
Don't need a label, already have one given to me at birth:) If other people want to pay the
price of admission,
more power to them.
Globalization of the world economy became much
more intense in the 1990s, and American companies lost
pricing power.
(i) Unable to restore the
power in a few states for
more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore
power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having
more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil
prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.
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More Purchasing
Power Prefer Quality Over
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Consumers were becoming
more frugal and health - conscious, the
power of the major supermarkets was growing and even Coke, once the world's most valuable brand, was losing its pulling
power and
pricing power.
The ACCC does have some s 155
powers to obtain evidence where it believes there has been a contravention of the Act; on the other hand, if discussions have occurred (as the ACCC claims) with Coles and they have produced no evidence of «below cost
pricing», then these
powers are
more limited.
In a major move that might help reduce the
pricing power of the UK's major supermarkets, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday said it would refer the issue to the Competition Commission (CC) for
more detailed examination.
Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market
power (legal framework must «level the balance of market
power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market
prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater
power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it
more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)
That dramatically far smaller number gives them a lot of buying
power and makes the business much simpler to run — meaning
prices can be
more competitive.