He said the contractor has removed 50 per
cent of costs from when it started production and is looking at how to remove another 50 per cent as it gets into full production, making it «an affordable airplane» to the U.S. government.
Not exact matches
Countries actually generate revenue
from printed currency, thanks to «seigniorage,» or the difference between the
cost of production (roughly 9
cents per bill) and its face value.
Walter Spracklin
of RBC Capital Markets said increased
costs from the delay means that Bombardier will need to sell more than 800 aircraft to break even, or 12 per
cent market share over the next 20 years.
The
cost to developers
of connecting a subdivision or development to water supply infrastructure will be reduced by nearly 50 per
cent from next month.
Gold and nickel producer Independence Group has posted a 264 per
cent increase in profit for the six months to December, on the back
of increased production
from its Jaguar and Tropicana operations and at lower
costs.
It added about 40 per
cent of Spectra's natural gas pipeline revenue is
from cost of service - based tariffs which could be subject to the tax recovery disallowance.
Water Corporation
of Western Australia has reduced its water losses
from leaks and overflows by 11 per
cent in the 2012 - 13 financial year and recorded the lowest operating
costs of the major water utilities nationwide.
In the last quarter before completing the acquisition, Innergex had net earnings
of $ 3.5 million or five
cents per share, down
from $ 8.8 million or eight
cents per share last year after an increase in financing
costs and other financial impairments.
Excluding
costs associated with the acquisition, the company said it would have had net earnings
of $ 100 million or 37
cents of diluted earnings per share, down
from 39
cents per share a year earlier.
The ColorQube copiers start at $ 21,300 — pricey but in the same range as a conventional office printer — and Xerox claims they can slash the
cost of color documents
from 8
cents to about 3
cents per page.
A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar
from a 62
cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour
cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure
of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.
«This is one in the list
of things that we are doing to remove
costs from the system, whether it's the suspension
of the long - term energy plan, whether it's renegotiating the Samsung (green energy) deal... and removing the eight per
cent provincial portion
of the HST (
from hydro bills) as
of January,» she said.
Excluding asset impairment and restructuring
costs, Coke earned 50
cents per share, up 2 percent
from a year earlier and ahead
of analysts» estimates
of 49
cents a share.
But as if exorbitant deal
costs weren't touchy enough, Tabcorp also made a hash
of its half - year 12.5
cents yield, attempting to offer the Dividend Reinvestment Plan, despite the deed precluding the bookmaker
from issuing more scrip while it subsumes the Queenslanders.
The combined
costs of a series
of catastrophic weather events and a one - off hit to its Northern operation forced QBE's profit down 248 per
cent, compared with profit a year earlier
of $ US844 million.Dividends also took a hit, with the insurer declaring a final dividend
of 4
cents per share, down
from the 33
cents payout a year ago.
Layton was responding to criticism
from Jack Mintz — the economist oft - quoted by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as justification for his tax policies — that the cap - and - trade system the NDP proposed to cover the
cost of $ 3.5 billion worth
of green initiatives in the first year would raise gasoline prices by 10
cents per litre.
In Canada, the
cost of food waste was identified as $ 31 billion in 2014, according to a report
from Value Chain Management International, up 15 per
cent from 2010.
It
cost 25
cents per dollar
of e-commerce revenue vs 20
cents per dollar
of revenue a year ago to deliver an item
from the warehouse shelf to the buyer's door - step.
The
cost of local and international calls has dropped a lot in recent years; some operators charge less than five
cents a minute for local calls and
from seven
cents a minute for international calls.
The
cost: 10 per
cent of the monies, which is repaid
from revenue over the course
of a year until repaid.
A score
of 100 would indicate maximum improvements across the SME Health Check Index's eight indicators (business
costs, capacity, employment, GDP, lending to SMEs, net business creation, revenue and SME business confidence), down 48 per
cent since 2014 and the fifth consecutive quarterly fall The SME Health Check Index fell
from 48.4 in the third quarter
of 2017 to 42.0 in Q4 2017, suggesting a worsening business and macroeconomic environment since the EU Referendum in June 2016 and the ongoing Brexit negotiations.
Stratasys held fast on its full - year revenue guidance, which ranges
from $ 750 million to $ 770 million, and reduced its EPS guidance by four
cents to account for higher
costs as a result
of an acquisition,
from a $ 2.25 to $ 2.35 range to a $ 2.21 to $ 2.31 range.
Weak economic conditions in the past couple
of years have seen growth in labour
costs slow to 2 1/2 per
cent over the year to the December quarter,
from 3 1/2 per
cent a year earlier.
While the Ontario government's recently updated long - term energy plan said the province's industrial electricity consumers currently face prices lower than that
of the average for the Great Lakes region, the plan also showed that the
cost will rise to $ 116 per megawatt hour by 2035, a nearly 40 per
cent increase
from the projected 2017 price
of $ 83 per megawatt hour.
Finance has revised the fiscal
cost of the reduction in the general corporate income tax rate
from 18 % to 15 per
cent to $ 3.9 billion in 2012 - 13
from their original estimate
of about $ 5.2 to $ 5.4 billion.
With the plan expected to add a
cost of 1.9 per
cent per employee and the likelihood that employees over the age
of 50 may never benefit
from their own contributions, roundtable members were vocal in their concerns about the plan's impact on both competitiveness and employee support.
Canada's CPTPP gains are moderately greater than the gains
from participating in the TPP, with the real GDP gain rising
from 0.068 per
cent to 0.082 per
cent, and the welfare gain rising
from $ 2.3 B to $ 2.9 B. With the United States out
of the deal, the
cost to Canada
of staying out while the TPP goes ahead as a 10 - member deal without either the United States or Canada becomes negligible.
The new rules ushered in earlier this year
from Brussels may well incur incremental
costs for bakers and snack manufacturers, but with one per
cent of the UK's population potentially suffering
from coeliac disease, the market for foods with the gluten sliced out holds considerable potential.
However, after a period
of price restraint, Mr Durkan says suppliers are now trying to push through
cost price rises, citing Arnott's 10 per
cent price rise on products ranging
from chocolate biscuits to chicken stock, and imminent price rises flagged by beverage companies Coca - Cola Amatil and Schweppes.
«We are getting a proliferation
of people applying for [wine producers] licences and they can then go out and buy grapes, contract made, contract bottled and effectively sell it to the retail market at
cost and claim a 29 per
cent rebate back
from the government.»
Putting the write - downs aside, CCA's profit for 2012 was up 5 per
cent, but that was off a low base in 2011 when it suffered
from a cool summer and a dispute with Woolworths that
cost it millions
of dollars in sales.
A 20 per
cent jump in feed and energy
costs, a hard, dry summer and lower farmgate milk payments have triggered a new exodus
of dairy farmers
from the industry this year.
That suggests the transport
costs could add about 1 to 1.5 per
cent to grocery bills, based on Coles»
costs, and government estimates
from 2011 that suggest transport
costs account for 5 to 6 per
cent of the price
of groceries.
Net profits
of $ 22.7 million, down 2.1 per
cent, were impacted by the rise in milk and milk powder
costs, which effectively wiped out the gains Bongrain had made
from the reorganisation
of its business in 2001.
Earnings
from Australian food fell 2.4 per
cent in 2017 after plunging 41 per
cent in 2016, but EBIT rose 13 per
cent in the June half and full - year profit would have been up 8.3 per
cent if not for the payment
of more than $ 150 million in staff incentives, which pushed up the
cost of sales.
«To put this in the context
of the broader group, allowing for the earnings
from the international divisions, our estimated increase in wage
cost is around 23 per
cent of group profitability in 2015 - 16.»
The claims follow the publication
of the results
from the New Zealand - based cooperative's globalDairyTrade internet sales platform, which suggest that
costs for milk powder fell by 8.2 per
cent over the same period during the previous month.
The energy
cost of soft drinks was, on average, 30
cents / MJ (875 kcal / $), whereas that
of orange juice
from concentrate was 143
cents / MJ (170 kcal / $).
Research
from the McKinsey Global Institute found that a 10 per
cent tax on high - sugar products would be one
of the least effective measures in combatting obesity, ranking 14th
of 17 intervention methods, with portion control having the highest estimated impact with the most
cost effective measures.
Despite cash
costs per tonne
of potatoes being relatively low at $ 228 in 2012 - 13, an increase by 2 per
cent was seen
from 2013 - 14.
Carrot also had a relatively large decrease
from 2012 - 13, at 9 per
cent leading to the cash
costs per tonne
of carrots being $ 292 in 2013 - 14.
However, the cash
costs of cabbage per tonne decreased by 26 per
cent from 2012 - 13 to 2013 - 14,
from $ 333 per tonne to $ 246 per tonne.
Cheap store eggs went
from.89
cents to 1.89 in the last year, but the E.B. eggs are still the same 2.39 they always were, so they only
cost a little more now.I was buying them when they were more than twice the
cost of store eggs.
JPMorgan expects food and grocery margins to fall 91 basis points to just 3.23 per
cent — less than half those at Woolworths — because
of operating deleverage, higher operating
costs and gross margin compression
from reducing inventories.
(The sticks get 31.5 percent
of their calories
from fat and
cost 28
cents each).
A single diaper
from one
of the more expensive brands
costs forty - four
cents from Amazon.com.
Whole grain options (the few that are available
from vendors)
cost five or ten additional
cents per student, so you can understand why schools are not exactly itching to get more
of these healthy foods into their lunch rooms.
A diaper for budget - conscious mums and dads can
cost as little as fourteen
cents for one diaper
from a pack
of 144.
Taking the fiscal credibility point first, the
cost to the Exchequer
of changing the standard rate
of VAT by one per
cent is approximately # 5bn a year (in other words, reducing the rate
from 20 per
cent to its previous 17.5 per
cent would
cost in the region
of # 12.5 bn).
It was discovered that only 40 per
cent of the revenue
from sales went to the EU budget, and 10 per
cent to Planistat for its own administrative
costs: the remaining 50 per
cent - which could be as much as nine million euros - was reportedly put into secret bank accounts.