Sentences with phrase «emphasis on cutting costs»

The Taiwanese company, criticized earlier this year for a spate of suicides among workers in China, became the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer years ago due to its emphasis on cutting costs.

Not exact matches

Pessina and KKR cut jobs and costs but also invested, sprucing up the stores and differentiating them with an increased emphasis on beauty and other higher - margin products.

After three years in which the emphasis has been heavily concentrated on cost cutting, business people are once more beginning to think about growth.

Dems will be working hard to prevent Mitt Romney from achieving separation from the House GOP, arguing that the Dem emphasis on a mix of tax hikes and spending cuts, along with more public investment to keep the recovery going, is far more balanced than the Romney / House Tea Party emphasis on gutting government at all costs.

«The 2018 capital budget reflects my administration's increased emphasis on physical upgrades on city - owned facilities to enhance efficiencies, cut operational costs and improve service to our residents,» Brown said.

There was a lot of emphasis on opposing development, the In / Out vote on Europe, controlling immigration and cutting welfare costs.

Rising fuel costs and an emphasis on «greener» modes of transportation are shifting priorities in the U.S. Still, the proposed U.S. projects have their work cut out for them if they hope to match the speed and popularity of established high - speed rail systems in other parts of the world.

But his emphasis was on relentless cost cutting, and he invested only the absolute bare minimum to keep the doors open.

I'd conclude, rightly or wrongly, that since the crisis an increased emphasis on risk management, Dodd - Frank & the Volcker rule (etc.), continued cost - cutting plus consolidation of trading exposures & systems, has actually proved a boon for FDP's consulting services.

Legal clinic expresses concern at the process for policy development, evaluation and approval, and the emphasis placed on an undefined «financial responsibility» (cost cutting at injured workers» expense?).

In the «new normal,» corporations and their in - house legal staffs exert downward pricing pressure on law firms and vendors for a number of reasons, including the new emphasis on cost - cutting and efficiency, the transparency of law firms» pricing and service offerings due to the ubiquity of the Internet, and the end of law firms» ability to convince clients that they and not the clients had all the answers.