Sentences with phrase «margin business like»

But in a low - margin business like canned goods, a little extra cost can take a deep bite out of profits.

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

Apotheker stuck to what he knows best and decided to refocus HP on higher - margin businesses like cloud computing and software.

Not exact matches

A closer look at Market Basket's operations under Arthur T. Demoulas suggests that its industry - beating 7.2 percent operating margins in 2012, cited by the Boston Business Journal, derive from six secrets: long - term employee relationships, low overhead, bulk purchasing, low prices, no debt and treating employees and customers like family.

Like many service businesses, Share makes its money on billable hours; once the fixed costs are paid, margins on additional calls are high.

With virtually no experience in the world of hardware, Facebook is taking on deep - pocketed competitors like Apple, Google and upstarts such as Snap, in a cut - throat business defined by thin profit margins and complex logistics.

Ted Mallett, VP and chief economist at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, says the difference for common household goods like detergent and diapers is largely due to the fact that retailers need higher margins in the smaller Canadian market; there are no tariffs on most items like these.

«Business cycles do not succumb to age alone but rather to a confluence of factors like falling corporate profit margins, slowing productivity growth, and a sharp rise in real policy rates into positive territory.»

Since its failed effort to go upmarket under ex-CEO Johnson in 2012 and 2013, Penney has been fixing its business by bringing back popular in - house brands like St. John's Bay that offer higher profit margins, fixing its e-commerce business, and tweaking its homes goods selection.

«Just like the industry we're serving, it's a low - margin, high - volume business,» says Ganenthiran.

The company is focusing more resources on higher - value specialty materials products like semiconductors for cell phones and moving away from the lower - margin chlorine business.

And this figure includes businesses like cloud and hardware, which probably have a much lower margin than its core advertising business (Google does not break out operating profit or loss for these sub-businesses).

If you can run carefully structured promotions, like I outlined in my last column, Fresh Thinking for Uncertain Times, and see a bit of a pop in your business without eroding margins, I would go that route.

While IoT is a very low - margin business compared to other digital consumer services like mobile phones, Nokia notes that healthcare is one of the big opportunities, citing analysts» forecasts of market CAGR of 37 %, making it «the fastest growing health care segment from 2015 - 2020.»

A firm that has high gross profit margins from a sustainable business from a core product like bleach, laundry detergent, or chocolate, to provide an illustration, is going to be much harder to put out of business when the economy turns down than one that has razor - thin margins.

Gain an insider's look at how to: • Analyze craft products, their distinct challenges, and dynamic market • Write a winning business plan that promotes growth and secures funding • Keep overhead low and margins high with options like self - distribution • Capture customers and create evangelists with the story behind the brand • Enhance the brand experience with events, taprooms, tastings, and tours • Develop invaluable relationships with distributors, retailers, and restaurants

3D printer sales have an outsize importance because they're the «razors» in Stratasys» razor - and - blade - like business model and drive sales of the high - margin print materials and service contracts, or «blades.»

I think the valuation is just average, but I think if this develops into a larger issue then customer attrition comes into play, which is a problem for a bank like Wells that relies on its huge business that it does in the retail bank (57 % of its income comes from the retail bank, of which a large percentage is high margin revenue that comes from cross-selling, the very practice that it will now almost certainly begin to slow).

Lion's new dairy and drinks boss Peter West says he will slash the number of products Lion puts on retail shelves as he looks to turn around the struggling business and drive sales in higher margin segments like specialty cheese.

Keep in mind that other non-profit milk banks may have different costs to process milk, and that pharmaceutical companies like Prolacta and Neolac (doing business at Medolac) include a profit margin in pricing their products.

The university business model makes it nearly impossible for any existing education school to direct resources toward a smaller, lower - margin product like an online degree at the expense of the core, on - campus offerings.

«GM's retail growth over the last 12 months has outpaced the industry by a wide margin because our redesigned large pickups and SUVs are hits, we made smart investments in new segments like small crossovers and mid-size pickups, and our momentum in the car business is accelerating with each new model introduction,» said Kurt McNeil, U.S. vice president of Sales Operations.

It simply might be the NHS deal through a dealer that has retail buyers, higher margin, like me and the allocation will be priortorised to satisfy the more profitable business in the early days of the launch?

The downfall right now is in pretending that Amazon has any goal in mind other than profit, and once publishers finally treat the retailer like its profit margin is its ultimate goal, then they can start to see new ways of doing business — with or without Amazon.

The comics market is unique in that the only significant retail outlet for the product is small, independent comics shops, and the margins in a business like that are notoriously thin.

Supporters of the traditional publishing industry argue that the major publishers — despite their massive size and dominant role in the print market — need tools like the agency model in order to protect themselves from Amazon's dominance in the e-book business and have to protect their profit margins so they can smooth the transition from print to electronic publishing.

Competition from the likes of Amazon.com, and investments in advertising and international business for the Nook may however be putting pressure on the company's margins.

Sounds like a great business case for more and more small e-pub houses — can do pretty much everything a large publisher will do, at potentially much lower overhead, which creates margin that can be used competitively to attract established authors, do more publicity, etc..

Amazon began in the bookselling business, and some of its earliest and most crucial advantages against incumbents like Barnes and Noble were best expressed with thinner margins.

But following a Schloss style of investing allows you to build a margin of safety at the portfolio level, and treat your portfolio like an insurance actuary thinks about the insurance business.

I BELIEVE (consult an accountant and attorney) an LLC allows you to write off interest (margin) expenses and things like business cell phones and internet lines as expense, yet still count the gains as capital gains.

Graham of course gave the value investing community concepts like margin of safety, intrinsic value and the idea of equity ownership representing a stake in a real live business.

Financial institutions operate like any other business by keeping expenses low while maximizing revenues to have the highest profit margin possible.

Which implies an intense focus on intangibles like management, moats, business models, research & development, disruptive advantage, costs, margins, peer / sector analysis, scuttlebutt, and all manner of other SWOT, scenario & competitive analyses — yes, all the difficult & squishy stuff that never boils down nicely to a cheap price / book ratio.

Similarly, margins can be heaven or hell, with the usual direction being subterranean... It seems like low barriers to entry, and the eternal quest for the next new / big thing, create a pretty toxic business environment.

«Graham figured that always using the margin of safety principle when deciding whether to purchase shares of a business from a crazy partner like Mr. Market was the secret to making safe and reliable investment profits.»

Like a lot of companies, I've no problem with the underlying business (though I think margins should be a little higher — I suspect that's another side - effect of distress), my problem is with appalling management!

Despite their different approaches, Graham and Buffett always assessed their investments in a business - like fashion, ensuring a considerable margin of safety in their purchases.

So, when new regulations tightened the bank's profit margins in bread - and - butter sectors like trading, the 148 - year - old firm realized it could expand its business into new areas.

«It's kind of like a margin account that businesses use for short - term financing,» Arnold said.

Value investing styles can vary when it comes to issues like the level of diversification, whether quality of the business is taken into consideration, and the amount of the margin of safety.

That, and other similar advice I got from superinvestors like Buffett and Munger helped as well my own experience of observing the horrible averaged out outcome for stockholders of highly - leveraged companies, made me realize just how little margin of safety exists in such businesses.

Like many value investors but unlike the vast majority of hedge funds, he often sat on billions in cash, waiting for his margin of safety — all while returning nearly 20 % a year since his business school graduation ceremony.

«In the dairy business, the margins are so slim that something like this will force us out of state.»

In an era, where many companies may try to run their business like a fast moving conveyor belt in order to quickly satisy their profit margins, the Resume Clinic will dedicate as much time as the customer requires in order to get your resume as perfect as can be to your liking and them some.

Then just like a business letter, you have the company's information on the left margin.

Like ordinary resignation letters, our templates come in formal business letter format with the correct spacing and margin as well.

Doing this and self managing to protect your margin and accelerate growth is more like running a business.