Sentences with phrase «margin business where»

Bookselling is a low - margin business where it doesn't take much to tip a retailer from the black to the red.

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The company attributed the performance to its international business, where it saw higher expenses, lower profit margins and weaker gains from sales of assets.

Hotel and vacation rentals are higher - margin businesses than selling flights, as airline commissions have shriveled and carriers try to drive more traffic to their own websites, where they also offer co-branded credit cards and vacation packages.

This bring - your - own - device niche is one where RIM's current competitors are unlikely to go — and it's potentially a high - margin business, at that.

In a business where margins are paper - thin and the future is perpetually uncertain, it's the only strategy that makes sense.

The parts of the business where larger profit margins are available include those areas where brands can be built.

He thinks that Amazon's shares are worth significantly more than where they are trading now because he expects the company's higher - margin web services business to grow faster than its retail segment, more than making up for the cost of expanding into new businesses to lure more Prime members, he said.

There's a familiar pattern in the company's history: keep high - stakes R&D in Toronto; punt lower margin commodity business to sites where labour costs are lower (Celestica operates 20 facilities in 14 countries including Mexico, Taiwan and Malaysia).

The x86 server business has become an industry of large volumes and slim margins — where one competitor's products are hard to distinguish from another's.

The retail side of Amazon has always been a low - margin business, where it drums up billions in sales but suffers tight profits.

While executives were careful to stress that there are currently no plans to sell Tim Hortons brew in Burger King stores, Tristano says there's still an opportunity for Burger King's owners to benefit from being involved directly in the coffee business, where it can now make bigger margins off the purchase, roasting and sale of the coffee itself.

And of course that margin, where we are as a handset business, is much better than what we're getting here today.

As we discussed last quarter, we continue to view Olive Garden as a business where the vast majority of fundamentals remain competitively strong from average unit volumes and restaurant level profit margins to brand perception and employee retention.

The company's response of incremental investments in its online business is weighing on its profits to the point where gross margin has fallen for 25 consecutive quarters.

While demand for low - end, starter homes has driven the business historically, most of the construction activity has been at the high - end, where profit margins are richer for builders.

He said the broader target of getting towards 30 per cent profit margins for the whole business would depend on how hard Treasury drove internal shifts where it heavily invests behind the higher - end brands that are much more profitable.

The Accolade business in Britain and Ireland is the No. 1 wine company by volume and value in a highly - competitive market where margins are thin.

«The area where we are having the most impact on margin is our frozen fruit business,» Patties Foods managing director Greg Bourke said.

Preserving working capital is a must for any business, especially restaurants and foodservice operations where high operating costs put pressure on margins and profitability.

Operating under the core philosophies of 80/20 business processes, customer - back innovation and a decentralized entrepreneurial culture, ITW's seven industry - leading segments leverage the ITW business model to generate solid growth with best - in - class margins and returns in markets where highly innovative, customer - focused solutions are required.

The PPT leads on to a great worksheet where students need to use their knowledge and calculate and analyse the gross and net profit margins from a number of businesses.

It is also very fuel - efficient, and in a business where profit margins can be slim, that goes a long way with caterers.

In cases where a large margin call is issued or an account has a low equity percentage relative to its margin requirements, the account may be liquidated in less than 1 business day.

Or they had a built - in margin of safety, such as property and casualty insurance businesses where you were in effect buying a bond portfolio at a discount to book, had the benefit of investing the premium float, had a necessary product (automobile insurance) and again did not need a lot of capital investment.

However, this business has now reached a scale where it's earning a 2 - 4 % EBIT margin, which is offset by almost a EUR 1 million HQ cost (outrageous for such a small company).

Setting all that aside, if we assume that profit margins of domestic businesses are, say, 30 percent higher than where they should be and will be, then we also need to figure out what percentage of equity market index earnings come from domestic operations.

Most of the areas I avoid are areas where the internet is collapsing margins of offline businesses.

I should seek an uncrowded space because as we all know, in business where there's mystery, there's margin.

According to Harvard Business Week, «The wheel of retailing is a concept that has been used to describe phenomena in which retailers use low - price strategies to build market share, to the point where the goal shifts from attracting new customers to building margins and profits through higher prices.

In a period where reduced profit margins are a reality, firms need to fully understand the real financial drivers of their business if they are going to survive and thrive in the new market.

Choosing this route provides an alternative source of liquidity for the business, which may provide a safety net for smaller businesses engaged in a high growth phase where cash is scarce and margins are tight.

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.

A place where a rigorous business approach, high sense of urgency, a place to take growth to the next level as an individual, or a part of a team, or as a manager with direct reports, where a strong focus and commitment to capture market share, and improved margins are recognized by the company as an asset.