Sentences with phrase «slim margins on»

Not content with making slim margins on hardware sales, the company has launched a new online ebook store to help differentiate themselves in a crowded Australian digital... [Read more...]

Not content with making slim margins on hardware sales, the company has launched a new online ebook store to help differentiate themselves in a crowded Australian digital scene.

Republicans have repeatedly mounted serious challenges in the district in recent years, and while they've always fallen short, they've done so by fairly slim margins on several occasions.

Not exact matches

In addition to providing a big sales boost to Amazon, AWS also ingests tech profits into a company that's traditionally run on very slim margins.

The Niwot, Colo. - based shoemaker reported sales of $ 363.8 million, up almost 10 percent from the same quarter in 2012, but the slimmer profit margins sent the stock down 20.2 percent on Thursday from the previous day.

For a discount retailer like Wal - Mart with slim margins, theft can be a serious drain on profitability.

«The mergers» potential influence on rebates, stiff competition and slim margins will accelerate the process.

The hard - charging former CIA director was confirmed on a 57 - 42 vote — one of the slimmest margins for the job in recent history.

May 1 The margin of investors who are bearish on longer - dated U.S. Treasuries versus those who are bullish on them shrank to its slimmest since September, JPMorgan Chase & Co's latest client survey showed on Tuesday.

Boss Borje Ekholm's strategy of slimming down and boosting margins is sound, but lacks credibility as he was on the board when things turned sour.

Recently announced tariffs on steel and aluminum have investors worried that automakers» already slim margins will fall.

They lagged the market by a slim 1.5 % margin on their long picks.

Profit margins on grain are slim, which means every extra cost matters, including the cost of transportation — and the relatively spread - out landscape of existing organic mills means many growers need to travel far.

They'd tack one more on with an empty - net and escaped by the slimmest of margins.

The betting on this game has been quite even, with early bettors favoring Louisville and the points by a slim margin.

Premier League is very hard and sophisticated now, margins are very slim and every team is capable on their day.

Ryan Blaney (nine points ahead of the cut off) and Jimmie Johnson (two points) provisionally occupy the final two transfer slots, though the slim margin means both could easily find themselves on the outside looking in when the Hollywood Casino 400 concludes.

On fourth - and - goal from the 5, Murray ran up the middle and dove into the end zone, making it past the Tiger tackle by the slimmest of margins to take the 38 - 37 lead with less than two minutes to play.

They are nearly evenly divided on whether the health care reform law, supported by a slim 47 - 44 percent margin, should be repealed.

Less than two weeks before Election Day, the parties don't agree on much — except these House races will be decided by the slimmest of margins.

But Lipton also recognized that even with the IDC on their side, the Democrats would be holding an extremely slim, one - seat margin in the chamber — and that's assuming they hold every seat they've got in the upcoming elections.

The 2017 budget, which was passed by the Board of Legislators on Monday by a slim margin of 10 - 7, and modifies a previous budget submitted to the legislative chamber by Astorino last month, will retain the county executive's proposed flat tax rate, but will also add four additional engineering positions to the county's depleted Department of Public Works roster, in addition to injecting $ 1 million to the county's Title XX child care program as a result of legislators» amendments.

With the election set to be closest political contest on Britain for a generation, authorities are particularly concerned about any irregularities, given the margin of victory could be very slim.

Hearing officers with the New York State Board of Elections have ruled that Democratic congressional candidate Juanita Perez Williams has enough signatures, by a slim margin, to be on the primary ballot.

The hospitality industry typically operates on a fairly slim profit margin and no child wants to be left behind — or help finance — someone else's edge.

While it sounds eye opening that we were spending that much money, we were operating on pretty slim margins.

We're going with Tony on this one, though by a slim margin.

Brando, Newman, Hiddleston and Fassbender moved on in the brackets and Denzel Washington beat Leonardo DiCarpio in the bonus bracket by a slim margin..

Using LSI it would still show close to the same profit for me as I'd make through Amazon, but I can imagine it wouldn't for someone using Lulu since there is a slimmer profit margin already on Lulu.

Amazon operates on extremely slim margins to create its price incentives, they need these tax loopholes to create their profits.

Not to spit on publishing, but seriously, what to do about ebooks and slim profit margins pales in comparison to the cultural impact libraries have and the financial challenges they're currently facing.

Also, when it comes to OS (I have iOS 7 on my iPhone) android beats iOS by a slim margin BUT iOS 7 almost FLAT OUT copies the features of Android.

The company has seemingly stopped carrying devices from all those companies due to its growing relationship with Apple and slim profit margins on hardware slashed to the bone.

Many stores suspended relationships with Amazon recently, such as Walmart and Target, as they were tired of making slim profit margins on the hardware.

Then on Wednesday, a post appeared on the Post's Wonkblog comparing the Amazon / Hachette fight to the debate over net neutrality: «Wanting to give consumers access to its products through the biggest single pipeline available, Hachette may relent on the price at which it sells books to Amazon, squeezing its slim profit margins even further.»

Margins on Samsung rebranded to Nook, I am sure were quite slim AND required a minimum order requirements that B&N was not comfortable with.

The slim profit margins of books; the problems of bookstore returns; the quandary of Borders closing and Amazon forever selling books as a loss - leader; how to make people actually pay for content, and so on... And yet.

UPDATE: The Washington Post covers the story on Wednesday, May 14, noting that Hachette may be forced to «relent on the price at which it sells books to Amazon, squeezing its slim profit margins even further» and that, as Amazon's market share increases, «if there's no real choice of where to buy things, maybe there should be some other way to retain pricing power for those who produce goods in the first place.»

Accounts that can afford to operate on tiny tiny margins have the capacity to, and have been, squeezing out retailers that can not operate on that slim a margin due to differences of scale.

Returns on equities are impossible to predict, but the McKinsey researchers point to several factors that have changed since the «golden era,» including lower inflation, lower interest rates, slower economic growth and slimmer corporate profit margins due to greater competition.

The winner this week (by a slim margin) goes to @questrade for the article on investing in ETFs [Do you trade mutual funds or ETFs?

Since food sales typically generate only slim margins, a store's bottom line depends on non-food merchandise sales.

At the time of this writing, Sotheby's shares have been under another kind of hammer — down more than 25 % since the third week of June from just shy of $ 47 to $ 34 on the close of business before Labor Day; and with slimmer and slimmer margins I can't see how that will change anytime soon.

So why dump a bunch of money into a new venture if you're unsure about making it back and you're operating on slim margins?

The prospects of businesses ever recovering from these sorts of uninsured losses are slim to none, because so many of us out of necessity work on such thin margins to begin with.

One, router manufacturers spend very little money on security because they tend to dislike cutting into their already - slim margins.

The margins on REO, like the margins on Auction properties are getting slimmer and slimmer.

Figuring out how folks are saving and buying second properties within 2 years based solely on the, in my book, slim margins most folks are okay with (from what I can see) is a mystery.

With the competition you may need to work on a little slimmer margins.

Profit margins in this business are already slim — many salespeople spend 60 percent or more of their income on overhead.