Sentences with phrase «of aggressive discounting»

Nonetheless, it should come as no surprise that Tesla reported record Q3 deliveries, considering Mr. Musk's email combined with the report of aggressive discounting mentioned above.

Not exact matches

In theory, hedge funds can pursue a lucrative strategy of buying impaired bonds from less knowledgeable investors at deeply discounted prices and then taking aggressive legal action to collect all, or almost all, of the promised principal and interest.

And because Lululemon doesn't rely on wholesale partners, it has avoided the channel conflict and third - party discounting issues being experienced by large brands like Nike, Coach and Michael Kors — all of which are taking aggressive corrective measures.

Last year was one of the most aggressive for the discount chain, with planned spending of $ 750 million for the opening of 73 new Canadian stores — including 39 locations owned by former Canadian retailer Zellers.

However, even this strategy has skeptics.324 While established brick - and - mortar retailers like Target have tried to lure online consumers through discounts and low delivery costs, 325 Amazon remains the major online seller of baby products.326 Although Amazon established its dominance in this market through aggressive price cutting and selling steeply at a loss, its actions have not triggered predatory pricing claims.

A number of U.S. retail and restaurant companies have lamented poor winter weather and aggressive discounts, resulting in fewer store visits and lower sales.

Following aggressive store expansion and a strong summer trading period, discount clothing chain Primark expects full - year sales to be 22 % ahead of last year.

This is not surprising as Walmart sold out of the Google Home Mini early on Black Friday and both Amazon and Google are running aggressive discounts.

Citigroup analyst Gino Rossi believes the shelf price rises and less aggressive discounting auger well for CCA and could take some of the pressure off margins after a tough year in 2013.

Mr Reeves» comments echo those in February of Goodman Fielder's former chief executive, Chris Delaney, who blamed a 54 per cent slump in baking profits on aggressive discounting in supermarkets.

«There's an aggressive promotion of the sugary beverages, an aggressive promotion of the larger sizes, price discounting and lots of advertising around the larger - portion sizes.

Federal authorities announced their largest - ever push for bus safety, shutting down 26 discount bus companies and assuming an aggressive new oversight stance after a series of deadly crashes.

LeNeve thinks U.S. automakers will be aggressive again this year around Black Friday, which has grown into discount mania in the final week of November.

As my wife put it — she being responsible for at least half of those aggressive pedal stomps — «I'm glad I didn't get a discount.

Meanwhile, book publishers are likely to see smaller sales and margins with the return of aggressive e-book discounts, said Tom Forte, an Internet analyst with Telsey Advisory Group in New York.

Amazon came under criticism for its «aggressive» negotiating tactics, which included preventing customers from being able to pre-order Hachette titles, reducing the discounts it offered on Hachette books and even delaying shipment of some of the publisher's titles for up to a month, all which had a huge impact on sales.

Fortunately, given the exceedingly strong historical data, this systematic global macro strategy remains quite compelling even with aggressive discounting of expected returns.

At the time, investors and lenders were generally shunning mortgages, so there was no aggressive pricing by lenders to provide much by way of discounts on ARMs to mortgage shoppers.

As for VOF itself, it trades on a 0.81 Price / Book multiple, despite an aggressive & ongoing share buyback programme — I see plenty of gains ahead in terms of NAV growth & discount compression, as Vietnam continues to leverage & benefit from its labour / cost export advantage, and (just as importantly) its burgeoning domestic consumer economy.

However, this 2012 article also provides an interesting perspective: «Reading between the lines of the NTR annual report, it would appear that the aggressive Greenstar [NTR's Irish waste management business] writedowns were at least in part a game of high - stakes poker» as NTR was «attempting to buy the loans from the banks at a discount».

The airline will know ahead of time whether the flight is overbooked, and will offer more and more aggressive discounts to those wishing to upgrade to first class via email.

Friends of the Earth felt that the «degression for solar PV is quite aggressive» at 7 % per year, (much higher than in Germany) and that since the bonus payment for export to the grid will fluctuate with the «market price», it will be discounted by banks providing debt for projects financed under the feed - in tariff.

This, along with wildly exaggerated climate damage scenarios, is needed to justify aggressive short - term interventions such as the Al Gore or Stern proposals.14 Since calculated net benefit results for a two - hundred - year horizon are extremely sensitive to the choice of a discount rate, the debate over the discount rate is far more than technical.

In a proposal, rather than state discounts from rates, an aggressive and confident law firm might commit to billing rates by year out of law school that are five percent below the next highest bidder's average billing rate for each class year.

With the exception of the Aggressive Driving program, completion of any of the other Delaware Defensive Driving Courses will grant you an auto insurance discount.

Your Delaware insurance discount and aggressive driver courses are state - approved by the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to meet all requirements for insurance reduction.

Google and Amazon likely lost money on their smart speaker sales over the holiday period which saw aggressive discounts being attached to both the Home and Echo - series devices, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing analysts of IHS Markit and IDC.

Amazon has been aggressive about discounting its Echo line of products to induce consumer purchase.

As part of its Gold Box deals of the day, Amazon currently has some pretty aggressive discounts on a variety of Huawei products today.

This is not surprising as Walmart sold out of the Google Home Mini early on Black Friday and both Amazon and Google are running aggressive discounts.

SoftBank's aggressive approach raised many tensions at Uber and among some of the company's smaller investors who believe that the Japanese tech giant will devalue the firm seeing how it's seeking to purchase its privately traded shares at a significant discount.

Not only has Wal - Mart grabbed a big share of the food buck, but the discount giant's aggressive development strategy also has sparked a price war between traditional supermarkets.

I find now that some «discount brokerages» have become more aggressive (deceptive) in their use of language in order to fend off some of the newer and even more aggressive «discount brokers»!