Sentences with phrase «margin commodity business»

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).

Owning so many of the logistical control points of the pulse trade is a core part of AGT's competitive advantage in what is otherwise a low - margin commodity business.

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Big Blue long ago realized that it couldn't survive solely on its groundbreaking hardware business, because commodity producers had captured the market and slashed the profit margin figures that IBM had been able to sustain in the past.

I think Michael Dell is an incredible entrepreneur, and the business model he developed for Dell Computer allowed him to reap incredible rewards from an industry with commodity characteristics, mean - reverting profit margins, and low barriers to entry.

«The margins in the restaurant business continue to be pressured due to the economy, commodity increases, new labor and healthcare laws, and a shortage of quality people,» Rambo says.

The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

The gamified system increased cooperation and productivity, resulting in a larger number of ground shipments, giving the company greater profit margins and allowing the cooperative to charge 2 % to 4 % extra for a commodity item (paper cups) to Starbucks due to increased efficiency of Hugo's gamified IT system.Hugos was able to achieve through gamification what Michael Porter, a leading authority on competitive strategy, advocates is the purpose of a business strategy: to increase profits by cutting costs and / or rising the price of your product or service.

I can see spinning off devices as it is, at best, a low margin or loss leader that will become a commodity business... If it isn't already.

Despite being a fairly capital intensive business selling commodity products, CMP's competitive advantages have helped it maintain a very strong and consistent operating margin profile, which is often the sign of an economic moat:

I think Michael Dell is an incredible entrepreneur, and the business model he developed for Dell Computer allowed him to reap incredible rewards from an industry with commodity characteristics, mean - reverting profit margins, and low barriers to entry.

Management was sacrificing margin to preserve share in what was becoming a commodity business.

These matters run the gamut of securities and commodities claims, including suitability, churning, misrepresentation and sales practices claims, cases alleging research and investment banking conflicts of interest, margin liquidations, incentive stock option exercises, shareholder derivative class action claims, customer solicitation claims, unfair business practices litigation, and audit and compliance advisory work.