Sentences with phrase «squeezing operating margins»

Cost of goods also increased more than we expected for the company, squeezing operating margins from 20 % to 12.5 %.

Not exact matches

Banks adapted to operating in this environment by cutting costs and improving back - office efficiencies, but margins have nevertheless been squeezed.

Some of its underperforming stores have been hurt by high rents that have squeezed the already narrow profit margins that supermarkets operate with.

The Irish firm could not escape the current climate of squeezed margins, higher raw material prices and «currency turbulence» with operating profit for the year falling by over 8 per cent on 2003 to $ 238.546.

«After maintaining smartphone operating - profit margins above 15 % for 10 consecutive quarters, Samsung's margins from its mobile and information technology business were squeezed to just 7 % in the third quarter ended September — the lowest level since the end of 2008, before it launched its first Galaxy smartphone.

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.

A record 99.9 percent of smartphones sold worldwide last year were based on either Android or iOS, as all competing platforms have effectively been squeezed out, according to data shared today by research firm Gartner.Android remains more widely adopted than iOS by a significant margin, with a roughly 86 - 14 percent split between the respective operating systems last year.

«Home flipping profits continue to be squeezed by a dwindling inventory of distressed properties available to purchase at a discount and increasing competition from fair - weather home flippers often willing to operate on thinner margins,» Blomquist said.