I think scale means a lot in
a commodity type business.
Not exact matches
«So from that perspective we tend to avoid
commodity -
type business,» he says.
«We blended distribution with a
commodity -
type system and variable pricing to help
businesses work with volatility,» Sullivan says.
A niche
business which is doing something remarkable but it belongs to an unremarkable, largely unprofitable,
commodity -
type industry and the market is failing to make the distinction;
A scalable
commodity -
type business without a moat is like the Nano.
Most value investors understand that leaving the question of price aside,
businesses with enduring moats are more attractive as investments than
commodity -
type businesses which have no low - cost advantages.
It is clear, such industry known as sick
commodity business type, in the context of Warren Buffett advices on selecting a
business to invest.
Even if the
commodities business was involved in «arbitrage», they would be involved in the risky
type of arbitrage.
In his view, you can divide
businesses into two basic
types:
commodity - based firms and consumer monopolies.
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.