Sentences with phrase «shoring up profits»

Nokia, which closed its 15.6 billion euro acquisition of Alcatel Lucent in January, is looking to stronger growth in fixed line equipment from the recently acquired business, as well as 900 million euros in cost savings through 2018 to help it shore up profits in the near - to medium - term.

It is difficult to understand why the record burden of consumer debt will be impervious to a rising unemployment rate, particularly when companies are facing a substantial acceleration in wage inflation in recent months as they try to shore up profit margins - making substantial new layoffs inevitable.

But as a Wall Street Journal story points out, they are still shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to e-book prices, by keeping them artificially high in an attempt to shore up their profit margins and protect their existing print business.

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Meanwhile, Steiner is focusing on educating people to recycle properly — a crusade that will not only revive stalling recycling rates in the country, but shore up the company's profits.

And even if they did manage to pull it off, they'd keep eBook prices high to shore up their paper profits — which is of course what they're doing now.

Not so now; the banks are licking their wounds, and letting profits grow by financing at lower rates, and sucking in bailout cash to shore up their balance sheets against future real estate lending losses.

This will likely put Bank of America on the path to meaningful dividend growth in the years ahead, as it's finally past the point of having to use profits to shore up the capital base.

This has the potential to really shore up GameStop's profits.

One thing that could shore up Samsung is for the iPhone X to pick up on sale as every unit of the device that flies off the shelves would translate to profits for the Korean manufacturer.

The specialist must possess good sense of judgment and be able to determine the perfect choice of Internet marketing strategy to undertake at any point in time to further shore up the image and boost the profit goals of the organization.