Sentences with phrase «commodity businesses where»

«In commodity businesses where there's usually easy substitution, that's amazing to have that kind of difference in price per Btu,» he explained.

I would rather invest in a commodity business where I know the company is a low - cost producer as, I believe, in the long run the company will best its competitors and eventually produce a market beating return.

Not exact matches

«The business model of an oil and gas company in the future is going to have to be built around the abundance model, where your returns are not going to be made by commodity price increases,» says Munro.

There's a familiar pattern in the company's history: keep high - stakes R&D in Toronto; punt lower margin commodity business to sites where labour costs are lower (Celestica operates 20 facilities in 14 countries including Mexico, Taiwan and Malaysia).

«So if you ask me long term where we're taking this business, well, I would like to take it to an achievable $ 6, regardless of what's happening in the commodity markets.

Americans in the early twentieth century were still becoming acquainted with mass advertising, which was designed to create new needs where none had existed before, such as for mouthwash or deodorant, or to promote products, such as baby food, that responded to and enabled a more fast - paced life brought on by technological innovation.67 With the mass production and advertising of goods, memorable packaging and branding became an essential part of the product, «an integral part of the commodity itself,» as one business executive noted in 1913.68

«The mall business, if you appreciate that it's more focused on fashion, is very different than a staple business where you're buying commodity.

Sadly, like many other commodities, I think we may end up with a tiered market, where the higher end businesses sell better product at higher prices, but fewer products, and then we'll have the dollar store version of books, where you get what you pay for, which for the most part is junk, but you know, people buy it anyway.

To paraphrase what Buffett once said, banking is a business with numerous commodity like aspects (they all sell the same basic service), but yet it also is a business where certain banks can develop a moat (a durable advantage over their competition).

When in doubt, acquire quality assets; regardless of what governments are doing, where interest rates or going, what's happening to commodity prices, the bottom line is that strong businesses will continue to reward shareholders who have the fortitude and reserves to be able to buy when there's blood in the streets.

What I can say from a strategic perspective is that 1) I like a purchase of assets at historically low prices, 2) MFC has some expertise in the commodity business so this isn't completely outside their playing field, 3) perhaps, worst case, there could be a strategy to purchase the assets in bulk at a distress sale and then sell them off piecemeal for a profit, and 4) while this may be a role of the dice (who knows where gas prices will be a year from now) MFC is not betting the ranch; the total investment will be about CDN $ 75 million ($ 33 for the outstanding shares, $ 8 million for the warrants, $ 30 million additional investment and I've estimated $ 4 million for transaction costs), or less than 25 % of MFC's current cash hoard.

In a business where your livelihood is dependent upon changing weather, changing technology and changing commodity prices, you expect and deserve a stable partner that understands your business.

There are additional risks related to commodity investments due to large institutional purchases or sales, changes in exchange rates, government regulation, world events, economic and political conditions in the countries where energy companies are located or do business, and risks for environmental damage claims, as well as natural and technological factors such as severe weather, unusual climate change, and development and depletions of alternative resources.

Commodities, while certainly in great demand most of the time due to increasing scarcity among many basic materials, tend to fluctuate greatly in value based on where the overall economic business cycle is at.

We should be under no illusion as to the impact of this fraud upon the national economy, where it is estimated to cost the UK more than # 50bn every year with crimes ranging from investment fraud schemes to the hacking of businesses to obtain that most valuable of commodities, personal data.

But if law firms allow themselves to be degraded to the point where there are no large, well - resourced homes for true expert practitioners, then law will become just another commodity supplied and consumed by big business.

One thing that is definitely growing in the global legal market is legal process outsourcing — having commodity work or lower value work done by not necessarily law firms but services based in India or the Philippines where that work is predicated upon repetitive need for that type of work and we don't find we have the demand for that in Canada with respect to our business.

Arbitration tends to work best in small trading communities such as commodity trade associations, where the parties will continue to do business and where an adverse award and its effect on reputations will matter.

We've built a system where commodity farmers simply can not make a living without government payments; subsidies have been internalized into the business model (e.g., agree that federal farm subsidies are huge and mostly misdirected.I MORE

We've built a system where commodity farmers simply can not make a living without government payments; subsidies have been internalized into the business model (e.g., agree that federal farm subsidies are huge and mostly misdirected.I

We've built a system where commodity farmers simply can not make a living without government payments; subsidies have been internalized into the business model (e.g., Most homeowner's wish to do this, real homeowner's, not those buying with no equity.

Otherwise we fall in the trap of attracting agents with a «low split» and therefore turning our business into a commodity where everyone is just cutting service to be profitable.

A «specified service trade or business» is any trade or business involving the performance of services in the fields of health, law, consulting, athletics, financial services, brokerage services, or any trade or business where the principal asset of such trade or business is the reputation or skill of one or more of its employees or owners, or which involves the performance of services that consist of investing and investment management trading, or dealing in securities, partnership interests, or commodities.