Sentences with phrase «low margin business»

A brief look at the operating margins of the lithium ion battery manufacturers tells you batteries are a terribly low margin business driven by volume.

And when you think of call centers, we all think of the boiler room operation or the high attrition low margin business and you're not thinking about a great place to work.

«I'm sure all retailers will have to pass that on eventually because wine is an extremely low margin business,» Rowan Gormley, chief executive officer at Majestic Wine, told CNBC on Wednesday.

Of course, plenty of losses occur from simple oversights, especially in high volume, low margin businesses like restaurants.

A grocery store is a very low margin business, but in some cases grocers can produce adequate (or sometimes better than adequate) returns on capital if they are able to turn their inventory (merchandise on the shelves) faster than competitors.

Surprising, collegiate debt is a relatively low margin business, and it would be impossible for a lender to stay afloat after credit card processing fees.

Mission Systems is a lower growth and lower margin business compared to the rest of Exelis» business divisions.

So management decided to spin - off the desirable hotel management part of the business into Marriott International (the «good» business) and leave the hotel ownership and other low margin businesses (the «bad» business) in the main company, to be renamed Host Marriott.

However, imposing a set fee may hurt the odds and not give any incentive for bettors to move over to the legal marketplace, something Slane described as already a «low margin business.»

Food is a low margin business, and the grocery industry has average net profit margins of around 1.7 percent.

But food is a low margin business and on - demand delivery has proven to be a logistical nightmare.

Amazon, B&N, Kobo and other retailers find that ebooks are a low margin business and they can not afford to give Apple a percentage of each sale.

The misperception about the ETF business is that it is a low margin business too.

This at least played some role with some mix shift in the period to lower margin business.

IR's objective to sell off cyclical, low margin businesses and to buy businesses with faster, steady growth is working well thus far.

As I predicted, DCC Food & Beverage has now been sold off, and it seems likely DCC's other divisions will eventually share the same fate — particularly DCC Technology, a volatile / low margin business, whereas DCC Healthcare's a more attractive business which deserves a much higher multiple if spun - off in its own right.

Dilworth Paxson CEO Ajay Raju is quoted as saying,» Law firms are in a zero - growth, low margin business.

While the grocery delivery market is full of competing services from Amazon and Instacart, it is a low margin business.