Sentences with phrase «competitive cost of doing business»

«We had a range of criteria that included being an attractive place to live and work where we could retain and attract skilled people, as well as having a competitive cost of doing business,» Truter says.

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These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

He assured that «the tax, borrow and spend approach of the Mahama administration» will be abandoned, in favour of policies geared towards the reduction in the cost of doing business to help small - scale enterprises flourish and to make the Ghanaian economy become globally competitive.

This third - world - class corruption — manipulation of competitive bidding rules and procedures, bribery and pay - to - play as the cost of doing business with SUNY and the state — sends a terrible signal to businesses looking to come to New York.

With the competitive credit card market, many cards have eliminated foreign transaction fees to draw in more customers, as they ultimately had nothing to do with the cost of doing business.

Lawyers can also start looking for opportunities to streamline their work, increase their efficiency, and reduce their own cost of doing business, in order to make themselves and their practice groups more competitive and effective.

So, to me, we have a dramatically atypical situation facing us: a huge market that is not competitive, that does not foster innovation in business processes, and has NO useful metrics for comparing efficiencies of different competitors or calculating roughly what various aspects of litigation SHOULD cost.

In today's competitive environment, litigation has become part of the cost of doing business.

«Our business is so competitive today and has so many more costs than it did years ago that you have to continually evaluate your operations to stay profitable,» says Nancy Kinney, ABR ®, GRI, broker - owner of Real Living HER Kinney Properties in Marion, Ohio.