Sentences with phrase «much smaller margins»

They work on much smaller margins and the price the consumer pays is in line with the added premiums provided to the farmer (often for quality in addition to organic certification), their own costs involved with organic certification, and the value added by actually roasting high quality beans that taste better.

«Restaurants are tough businesses with much, much smaller margins than other franchises,» he says.

Even if Chad Morris was still there, I think it's reasonable to say Tech still might have won, albeit by a much smaller margin.

Analysis of the most recent British Election Study data demonstrated that while support for UKIP will fall after May's European Parliament elections, this decline will be by a much smaller margin than in previous years.

The finding suggests that brain surgeons and the designers of neural prosthetics have a much smaller margin of error than previously thought — shifting an electrode even slightly could activate an entirely different set of neurons.

Audi says that's because the newer sedan will be positioned as a sportier, more «style driven» alternative to the hatchback, which has long been the most popular body style in Europe, although small hatches outsell small sedans in Australia by a much smaller margin.

But lapses in materials and overall sophistication still leave it lagging the Accord and Camry, though by a much smaller margin than the Stratus did.

She said properties are still attracting bidding wars and selling for more than their asking prices, but by a much smaller margin — think $ 15,000, not six figures.

Not exact matches

Software companies usually sell at larger p / e ratios because they have much higher growth rates and earn higher returns on equity, while a textile mill, subject to dismal profit margins and low growth prospects, might trade at a much smaller multiple.

Sure there are funds that add in commodities, currencies and private equity, but the margin for error becomes that much smaller in a low return environment.

A consumer goods company may be a market - share leader but not make much money, or it may occupy a small niche and command premium margins.

It is also a function of the stage of much of our careers where we aren't interested in playing small ball with incrementalism on how to squeeze out an extra 5 % of margin by optimizing the Internet slightly better.

You're right that the margin of safety is so much smaller in bonds because the yield won't be there to pick up the slack.

While this can separate some churches too much from society, it can also assist the small church in living on the margins of society, where opportunity for mission knocks.

Obama's margin of victory was much smaller than in 2008 when he defeated John McCain by a 53 % to 46 % margin, and he lost ground among white evangelical Protestants and white Catholics.

The Eagles» margin for error will be much smaller going forward.

The problem we have is maintaining said form, and whilst we can't win every game, we can't afford to lose games like these, as the margin of error now days is much smaller.

With not much to give between the two midfielders, this game could go down to the smallest of margins.

Why was a REPUB seated with a much smaller vote margin?

And lost by much smaller vote margins than the vote totals showed.

In Con - Lab marginals, while Labour voters were much more likely to give their second preference to the Lib Dems than to the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats were more likely to give their second preferences to the Tories than Labour — albeit by a smaller margin.

Even in small quantities, full - size premium SUVs are prestige leaders with healthy profit margins per vehicle, much more profitable per - vehicle than the compact SUVs that are fast becoming the biggest market segment in the US.

0 - 100 km / hr has been improved by a small margin which isn't really noticeable in normal usage, but what is noticeable is the fact that the TDCI mill has a much better bottom - end now and the car responds to throttle inputs in a very brisk fashion.

Considering the profit margin on your self - pub work, it looks like those books are selling in much smaller numbers than your other.

Digital platforms continue to erode and undermine the economic model for print, and large publishing houses are now often part of even larger entities that sell lots of other stuff at much bigger margins, causing publishers to wager big money on what they believe to be the most commercial books, often at the expense of «smaller» more important ones.

Most stores will almost exclusively stock film tie - in covers, and depending on the popularity of the title, a small number of original covers — if the original covers are still in print, and the simple reason for this being that the stores get a MUCH better margin on the film tie - ins and it's such a shame.

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..

Additionally, using margin requires you to monitor your positions much more closely because of the exaggerated gains and losses that accompany small movements in price.

But if the value of the underlying drops, as it always could, the main risk you face is losing your premium, an amount that's usually much smaller than the initial margin requirement.

It sounds like your answer is focusing on their inability to meet certain accuracy margins in their tests, not the fundamental ability to perform X tests with Y blood (Y being much smaller than the industry standard).

Agri - Business — agreed, the reporting isn't much help: i) it's 5 - 6 years now since we've seen a useful / proper divisional breakout of Speciality Dairy vs. Animal Feed, ii) you could probably hazard a guess at their respective revenues now, but without a profit breakout that's a somewhat pointless exercise — which just leaves you with an aggregate divisional margin to rely on, and iii) I wouldn't worry much about Property — rental income's small in relation to the division, and any sale should be flagged, so you can back it out.

While a futures contract may have a very high value, a trader can buy or sell the contract with a much smaller amount, which is known as the initial margin.

As I've said, if a small but attractive dairy brand is plugged into another company's much larger manufacturing & distribution network, there's v little incremental cost / investment required — therefore, the incremental operating margin to be earned can be pretty substantial (not to talk of the increased revenue potential).

Of course, with such a small footprint, Idzi does not have much margin for error, so she sticks with best - selling categories such as collars and leads, toys and gourmet treats — all of which reflect a nautical, coastal sensibility.

For example, if you talk about how steam and humble bundles devalue your product due to incredibly small margins, well it's never been easier to get games released on the consoles (from what I've read) where not only is the market thriving (the PS4 is the fastest selling console in history), but also the margins are much higher.

When I think of veteran painters like Raoul de Keyser ensconced in the small Belgian town of Deinze, or the reclusive expatriate James Bishop who has spent much of the last half century hiding out in the French countryside, the first lines of John Ashbery's poem «Soonest Mended» pop into my mind: «Barely tolerated, living on the margin / In our technological society.»

The Siberian Margin might rival the whole rest of the world ocean as a methane source, but the ocean source overall is much smaller than the land source.

The relative increase in power prices is small compared to the existing charges for transmission, distribution and retail margins: it would add about as much as a carbon price.

The grocery chains and independent stores alike do not have very much room to bend on their margin, nor do the brands, nor do the brokers, the distributors, the shipping companies, the packaging companies or the small truckers who bring the goods to the ports.

At this point (when deal platforms become ubiquitous), I see smaller startup law practices having to either (A) get used to operating at much lower margins, or (B) find a way to move up - market and take a piece of the larger deals.

The margin of error for operating large trucks is much smaller than driving a traditional passenger vehicle, and the danger and potential for harm stemming from a large truck accident are much more severe.

Margins are smaller on the smaller values and people are starting to pay to much for projects because they can't afford retail and «want a discount» even if they don't realize what the actual cost is going to be.

With the margins being smaller, the commitment to the brokerage business has to be much more substantial.