Sentences with phrase «margins in a competitive industry»

Warnings to the wise: always analyze your profit margins in a competitive industry, and if results seem too good to be true, don't accept them, push back and look at all of the squishier accrual items to see if there is an error.

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But these days, in an industry that IATA predicts will have an average profit margin of 0.5 % in 2012 and whose members are doing everything they can to differentiate themselves in the market to stay competitive, not so much.

The stable outlook reflects our view that ACT's strong market position in North America and Scandinavia and its continued operating efficiency will insulate it from margin pressure in this highly competitive industry, contributing incremental earnings and generating strong free cash flow for debt reduction that should result in leverage declining quickly to about 3x by the end of 2013.

The grocery industry in Australia is a highly competitive industry characterised by high volumes and low margins.

Although experience internationally shows that cartels may exist in almost any industry, there are certain industry structures and commercial activities and / or factors that may increase the risk of cartel formation, including: - customers that make regular, repetitive purchases by way of competitive tender; - competitors that know each other well through social contact, trade associations, shifting employment or other legitimate activities; - companies with immature corporate governance systems which fail to pay sufficient attention to compliance issues; - price or margin increases in a depressed market; - unexplained reluctance to compete on price and / or in particular areas and / or in respect of particular products; - unexplained reluctance to increase output; - unexplained pricing or market share stability in a previously volatile market; and - regular unexplained parallel price increases.

In an increasingly competitive auto insurance market, with online providers putting more pressure on the rest of the industry to keep margins low and premiums affordable for customers, many companies have gone to this strategy of selling value - added policies as their base standard offerings to differentiate themselves from the competition.