Sentences with phrase «absorbing cost increases»

If publishers are forced to cut print runs on top of absorbing cost increases, the profit per book sold will decrease dramatically.

This year, the state budget impasse, the proposed $ 1.4 billion cut in school aid and the lack of a state budget forced school districts and taxpayers to absorb cost increases alone.

Not exact matches

Some packages had to travel long distances to customers, depending on where the factory and the customer were located, increasing shipping costs that Zappos had to absorb.

For one thing, increases in commodity prices take time to trickle down to the consumer, and hikes depend largely on the willingness of retailers to absorb added costs.

He said that his company could absorb the cost of a 10 percent increase, but in the case of a 25 percent increase, he would have to charge customers more for his chocolates.

Whether it means paying more for tomatoes in the grocery store or absorbing increasing business costs, many Canadians are feeling the bite of inflation.

«Essentially that wage compression at the upper level of the hourly associate is going to help absorb that cost of the wage increase at the lower level,» said the manager, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

«They don't necessarily have the resources, they can't absorb the increases in cost, and they feel like it's kind of relentless, it's one thing after the next,» San Francisco Chamber of Commerce vice president of public policy Dee Dee Workman told the Associated Press.

«Auto sales have flattened in recent months, and manufacturers are not prepared to absorb a sharp increase in the cost to build cars and trucks in America.»

Paul Bulcke, the chief executive officer of Vevey, Switzerland - based Nestle, the world's largest food company, said May 19 that food - price increases should be gradual and that companies would try to absorb commodity expenses by reducing costs in other areas.

However, if domestic demand pressures ease appreciably, it is possible that increases in upstream costs will to some extent be absorbed into profit margins rather than flowing into consumer prices.

Rising rates can increase borrowing costs for REITs, and over-leveraged companies can be a huge risk if companies can't absorb the higher cost.

«These increases all impact our cost of goods, but we can't pass those along to our customers, so at the end of the day, we are absorbing a great part of the increases which have eroded our bottom line,» he adds.

Purchase scallops that are «dry packed» — meaning they haven't been treated with a phosphate solution to absorb moisture and increase the cost per pound.

While I have frozen Suffolk County general - fund taxes for seven straight years, it has become increasingly challenging to control other costs so that we can absorb mandated cost increases without raising taxes through the roof.

It will drive employers with part - time and / or lower - income employees to significantly modify their scheduling practices, at a time when they are also absorbing the costs of an increased minimum wage and dealing with the complexity of the new paid family leave act.»

The New York Farm Bureau is concerned that farms across the state will be unable to absorb the cost of any future mandatory wage increases.

Its National Chairman, John Walker, said: «The increase in VAT to 20 per cent will however, hurt small firms who will have to pass the increase on to their customers, unlike big business which can absorb the cost.»

So far the collapse in Sterling has not led to a significant rise in inflation as retailers have largely absorbed the increased cost of imported goods and materials.

WE at our jobs are asked to absorb more medical coverage costs, so, why can't you negotiate with the unions and try to do the same... with pensions too... I really detest that WE have to help pay for increases to pensions when ours are at a standstill... and why can't our representatives have a freeze on their wages when many companies are laying off?

«Our research team has developed a simple and cost - effective fabrication technique to create solar absorbers that can harness a greater share of the solar spectrum, thus increasing their efficiencies, while also maintaining low emission levels,» said Masdar Institute's Dr. TieJun Zhang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

Extreme weather contributed to cost problem Electricity rates have increased 18 percent because of Kemper, and the result of the prudency review before the Public Service Commission could force the utility to absorb more of the costs (ClimateWire, April 30).

, there is no easy way for academia to absorb the extra cost of increased salaries.

Therefore, it'll cost you more calories to digest and absorb protein than it would cost you to assimilate fat and carbs, which is why high protein intake has been shown to significantly boost metabolism and increase the amount of calories you burn.

But this comes at a cost to the you the host as these pathogens compromises various digestive processes, preventing it from fully absorbing vitamins and minerals, increasing acidity in the intestines, allowing candida yeast infections, bacteria and parasites to thrive, reducing enzymatic activity.

Despite the increase, the DOA estimate suggested the extra cost could likely be absorbed by the departments» budgets.

Nearly 40 percent of the increase in school budgets will be absorbed by higher pension costs.

«But we think that's absorbed, we've gone through that cycle, and we remain confident that certainly to 2020 and the next Concorde negotiation we don't have an unusual bump and there will be a much more linear relationship on the increases between revenue and the cost side.»

Tuition Increases: Method adopted by Universities and Colleges in which the cost of education is increased by a specific percentage each year to cover the cost of inflation in addition to any other extraordinary operating expenses that the school may be absorbing.

This way you avoid adding on mortgage loan insurance fees and you have a much better chance of keeping your current monthly expenses manageable and absorbing future increases in the cost of living.

When combined with a tight labor market and recent wage growth, it remains to be seen how well companies can absorb input cost increases before having to pass them on to consumers, and how sticky consumer demand for goods and services will be once this happens.

We have had the expected increases in cost of ingredients and finished goods, and we have also absorbed increases with fuel surcharges, cardboard and most importantly, increased UPS shipping costs.

However, Christopher Battiscombe, director general of the Society of London Art Dealers, told ARTnewsletter that his member - dealers coped with the law by absorbing the increased costs — largely, paying the royalty fees themselves — rather than passing them on to buyers in order to minimize its impact.

The result of absorbing these additional costs has been an increase for the core NCAR activities of about 0.6 percent each year, or after inflation is considered, a net loss of the NCAR program of between two and three percent per year.

Within the two percent annual increase, NCAR had to absorb new additional costs associated with the operation of the new high altitude aircraft and associated instrumentation.

The fact is that the cost of the Carbon Price for most businesses that it was simply absorbed and no increase to product prices appeared.

Incidently, this will also increase the cost of global warming — as the surface layer will have a reduced capacity for absorbing oxygen due to its increased temperature, and less of this oxygen which is absorbed into the upper layers will reach lower ocean layers due to reduced mixing.

I don't know — but it seems that the advocates of consensus climate change define things to make humans look as bad as possible and fail to take into consideration the positive results of increased warmth, the enhanced crop growth, the lower cost to heat a home during winter, the increased CO2 sinks which are absorbing 1/2 of our emissions and so on.

The poor, who are most unable to absorb the added costs, will feel acutely the effects of increased electricity prices.

However, this uplift will be eroded by pipeline costs and diluent expenses to around $ 5.5 / barrel, leaving only a few dollars margin to absorb any other factors, including production cost increases, carbon offset costs, and any future price discounts.

Though the firms paying out $ 145,000 in salaries would like us to believe that law firm partners are absorbing the increase in associate salaries, stories like this one make clear what most of us already figured out: It's the clients who are paying the cost.

«For many, these changes are hitting hard, and the businesses may not be able to raise prices or otherwise absorb the dramatic increase in labour costs.

Profit squeeze: Mid-size law firms will continue to be affected by a «profit squeeze» resulting from (a) increased overhead due to higher associate and staff salaries and benefits; (b) higher automation costs, professional liability insurance and marketing expenses; (c) partners» unwillingness / inability to increase hourly fee rates for «commodity» type work to off - set higher overhead; (d) enhanced client scrutiny of hourly rates, hours to produce work and lawyer and paralegal staffing of work assignments; (e) pressure by corporate counsel for law firms to absorb more of the «soft costs;» (f) slower paying clients, that affect cash flow and hence the availability of distributable dollars for partners; and (g) a great many mid-size law firms are burdened with higher debt.

The lower cost of fuel will help Canadians to better absorb the increase in debt payments.

The online retailer could absorb the costs of offering goods for lower prices without significantly hurting the consumer whereas third - party sellers will need to increase their prices in order to make a profit.

That's not great news for renters, unfortunately, who have seen their fraction of incomes absorbed by housing costs increase from 25 percent to 30 percent in the space of just a few years.

Giants such as GGP and Simon Property Group Inc., the largest mall owner in the U.S., are better positioned to absorb the increased costs than their peers that own less - desirable real estate, according to Green Street.

«The main storyline in the early months of 2017 will be if supply can meaningfully increase to keep price growth at a moderate enough level for households to absorb higher borrowing costs.

And, while it's anticipated that the majority of the increased costs will be absorbed by businesses, putting a portion of fish and chips on your plate is still likely to cost you around 10 % more than it did last year.