Sentences with phrase «pricing practice in»

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Dumex — Danone's infant nutrition business in Asia — has announced plans to reduce the price of its infant formula products in China by up to 20 % in response to an investigation into its and other manufacturers» pricing practices in the country.

In other words: the pricing practices in question were not anti-competitive in effect.

Since the Danish competition authority had not found any evidence of a plan of driving out FK from the direct - mail market, the pricing practices in question were neither anti-competitive in object.

Not exact matches

When former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said last fall that his earlier enthusiasm for corn - based ethanol production in the United States was a mistake, he was conceding something that had long been obvious: the practice of diverting food crops to biofuels has contributed to food shortages and driven up prices for staples across the globe.

He said a pullback of 15 - 20 per cent in prices was likely, with the main impact to be felt next year after the latest round of mortgage lending practices comes into play in Canada.

Major Perth architecture practice JCY has been placed into liquidation after being hit by the slowdown in work volumes, pricing pressures and losses on the Perth Children's Hospital.

None of these pricing and business practices are unique to Shkreli, who has run relatively minor organizations in the drug making world.

Morgan first downgraded the stock to «hold» in October, after Valeant's price gouging practices fell under public and government scrutiny.

Lately pharma execs have been taking yet another volley of criticism over drug - pricing practices from Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio — and plenty of others — without offering much in the way of a defense.

Although a similar agreement was signed in 2012 in Indonesia, labour advocacy groups said the Bangladeshi agreement is unprecedented because not only is it legally binding, but it commits brands and suppliers to changing their pricing and sourcing practices.

In his book No B.S. Marketing to the Affluent, business coach and consultant Dan S. Kennedy shows you how to re-position your business, practice, or sales career so you can learn how to attract customers for whom price is not a determining factor.

Pricing practices could be in focus.

While short - term stock price movements should normally not be a concern for boards, nearly halving the value of the stock in less than nine months warrants some attention — and a look at the board's practices.

Here's how the different programs work in practice: Airlines like Southwest price their seats either in cash or in an equivalent number of points.

In attacking Berkshire, Ackman was striking back after Buffett's business partner Charlie Munger last year called Valeant «deeply immoral» for its practice of raising drug prices, sparking a sort of long - distance feud over whose favorite stock was better.

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

The company is already paying a price for its practices in London, where the company was banned from operating due to safety and regulatory concerns.

For that reason, Northrop shares edged up only 0.3 % in early trading Monday, suggesting that, while the deal made lots of sense over the long term, the price is pretty full and the buyer has less practice than some at integrating new businesses, especially big ones.

Short selling is a practice in which traders can bet against a company by selling shares they don't own and buying them back at a lower price.

Chris Hurt, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., said in a recent presentation that the U.S. Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (that is, the practice of issuing money to buy long - term government debt) likely elevated U.S. farmland prices.

It seems Zellers really practiced what it preached when it came to low prices, in some cases paying as little as $ 1 per square foot for its retail space.

Doug Getten, a Houston - based partner in the corporate practice at law firm Paul Hastings, said the recent flurry of deals shows parties are able to reach consensus on the outlook for prices.

On the subject of religion, Porter points out that the time, effort and currency invested in the practice of faith is simply the price of receiving «a mixture of insurance and social services.»

«Unfortunately, the Commerce Department decision is divorced from this reality and ignores long - standing business practices in the aerospace industry, including launch pricing and the financing of multibillion dollar aircraft programs,» the company said in a statement.

While most of his proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.

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Valeant shares are down 85 % this year, and 95 % since their peak price in summer 2015, as accounting errors have led to a criminal investigation of its practices and its drug - price increases have come under fire with regulators.

In a recently released study, Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice, the IMF calculates what it considers to be the appropriate level of fuel taxes (a carbon tax by any other name) for 156 different countries.

To recap, a massive housing bubble that built up through the naughties (2000s) finally burst in 2008, feeding a financial crisis, as extremely loose (some would say fraudulent) lending practices pushed housing prices up to spectacular, never - seen - before levels, and created a plague -LSB-...]

The housing boom was fueled by optimistic expectations for house price appreciation, combined with lax underwriting standards embodied in such practices as no - doc mortgages and widespread speculative activity by investors.

These gains were matched in many economies around the world, the result not just of the now widespread practice of having a central bank with instrument independence commit to an implicit or explicit goal of price stability, but also of course of the effects of global economic integration on competition and labor costs.

Pursuant to the policy, as revised in February 2009, at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director has served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided by the lesser of (i) the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant or (ii) such number of RSUs as the Board may determine based on additional criteria such as business conditions and / or company performance, outside director compensation practices at peer companies and advice from outside compensation consultants.

Despite the fact that its Charter starts off by directing it to promote full employment and stabilize prices, the Fed is anti-labor in practice.

Their loans are indexed to the consumer price index — which means in practice to the foreign exchange rate.

In the Russian Far East, Huawei outcompeted Nokia in a 2017 open tender bidding process to lay an internet cable to the Kurile Islands by agreeing to complete the project at a cost that was 9 percent below Rostelecom's stated maximum contract price.122 Though there have been no specific complaints surrounding the Kurile Islands tender, China's investments in Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practiceIn the Russian Far East, Huawei outcompeted Nokia in a 2017 open tender bidding process to lay an internet cable to the Kurile Islands by agreeing to complete the project at a cost that was 9 percent below Rostelecom's stated maximum contract price.122 Though there have been no specific complaints surrounding the Kurile Islands tender, China's investments in Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practicein a 2017 open tender bidding process to lay an internet cable to the Kurile Islands by agreeing to complete the project at a cost that was 9 percent below Rostelecom's stated maximum contract price.122 Though there have been no specific complaints surrounding the Kurile Islands tender, China's investments in Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practicein Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practices.

There is, of course, a very important distinction to be made between a permanent, but one - time, shift in the level of prices and a persistent increase in the rate of change of prices, though in practice it may be very difficult to tell the difference.

But after experiencing the benefits of cold showers I find the momentary discomfort of such a practice a very small price to pay in the bigger picture of the innumerable physical, mental and even spiritual benefits I receive.

NRF has argued before Congress and in court that the practice is a violation of federal antitrust law the same as if retailers were to collude on the price of specific pieces of merchandise.

Wells Fargo believes its practices related to broker price opinion were «proper» and disagrees with the claims in the suit but agreed to settle to avoid further litigation, bank spokesman Tom Goyda said in a statement.

In author and seasoned commodity trader Carley Garner's quest to guide traders through the process of commodity market analysis, strategy development, and risk management, «Higher Probability Commodity Trading» discusses several alternative market concepts and unconventional views such as option selling tactics, hedging futures positions with options, and combining the practice of fundamental, technical, seasonal, and sentiment analysis to gauge market price changes.

In the past decade, the US had been ramping up the use of targeted tariffs to help protect the US steel industry from unfair trading practices, which include selling steel in the United States at a cheaper price than the price the exporting country sells it elsewhere (this is called «dumping»In the past decade, the US had been ramping up the use of targeted tariffs to help protect the US steel industry from unfair trading practices, which include selling steel in the United States at a cheaper price than the price the exporting country sells it elsewhere (this is called «dumping»in the United States at a cheaper price than the price the exporting country sells it elsewhere (this is called «dumping»).

The Minister for Consumer Affairs in India has directed the officials under his ministry to present a ground report on practices followed in displaying price and purity of gold ornaments by jewelers.

The incident focused renewed attention on the practice of «shorting» stock — borrowing shares and selling them in the hopes of replacing them later after the price drops.

We buy businesses directly from their sellers at a reasonable price using simple and prudent financing structures, incentivize management through stock ownership, and enable managers to run and grow their businesses through good business practices and through acquiring other businesses in their industry.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Additionally, there has been increasing legislative and enforcement interest in the United States with respect to specialty drug pricing practices.

If you purchase shares of common stock offered in this prospectus, you may be required to pay stamp taxes and other charges under the laws and practices of the country of purchase, in addition to the offering price listed on the cover of this prospectus.

What this means in practice is that we have kept maturities of our investments very short, particularly for low - risk issuers such as governments and agencies, while we seek out opportunities to increase portfolio yield with what we think is well - priced corporate debt.

It really is, in practice, the basis for every price prediction.