Sentences with phrase «tough operating environments»

When you're investing for the long term, it's helpful to consider businesses whose track records include tough operating environments.

«Despite what we would consider a very tough operating environment, we do think these guys have the locations, customer loyalty and the brand that allows them to succeed in that environment,» he said in a phone interview from St. Louis.

Industry peers aren't doing nearly as well, which means McDonald's is winning market share in this tough operating environment.

[4] Toyota also extensively tests the Land Cruiser in the Australian outback — considered to be one of the toughest operating environments in both temperature and terrain.

It's another acknowledgement of the tough operating environment for nuclear facilities as gas - fired and renewable energy sources continue to grab more power generation market share in an era of lower electricity costs and slowing demand for electricity.

Not exact matches

«Disruption is not pretty, and it's a tough environment to operate in,» says Glenn Rowe, an associate professor at Western University's Ivey Business School.

But overall, our sense is that the operating environment for IT firms is going to get tougher,» Jones said.

To Mark Tercek, president of the non-profit Nature Conservancy, the silver lining in the funding crisis for green groups is that it forces them to operate more efficiently and focus on core priorities: «Non-profits... have to be smart about adjusting to a tougher economic environment, including setting priorities,» he says.

This must be able to operate in one of the toughest environments on Earth, and do so with extremely limited supply chain logistics.