With an increasing number of products, Amazon is increasing its development and production costs and potentially risks confusing the customer with too many choices.
Pan American met its targets for silver production and cash costs during the fourth quarter and full year, Burns said.
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It was seen as a spectacular Italian coup when Eni became operational leader, but the thanks to a poor infrastructure for exploration in the northern Caspian sea, costly regulations about the burning off of gas at oil wells, and the rising costs of oil extraction, production was slowed and costs overrun.
Rising production and falling costs meant a 24% rise in earnings per share, despite the write-offs.
Until recently, studios could amortize the production and marketing costs of a movie over as long as 20 years.
The lathe is a tool for making tools--it makes manual crafting tasks easier, allowing for increased production and lower costs.
As production and marketing costs continue to rise, advertising dollars are declining.
It looks like chances are very slim that the film will earn back its production and marketing costs let alone turn a profit.
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It will cut 1, 500 workers to streamline production and lower costs.
Tracking data from the 50 largest listed oil and gas producing companies globally (ex FSU) indicates that cash, production and unit costs in 2011 grew at a rate significantly faster than the 10 year average.
As Goran Sjonell, Sweden's most distinguished family doctor, says, a system in which a third party the council pays hospitals per treatment risks stimulating over-production and raising costs, which is why caps have been imposed on hospital revenues.
Of course if we assume as Johnson does that production and exporting costs will remain the same despite an increasingly suspect dollar, we must at the very least remember that trade in the real world is a two-way street.
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Because of the sweet deal Paramount gives director Michael Bay on the Transformer movies (he is a profit participant once Paramount earns back its production and advertising costs), the studio stands to earn considerably less on the film than it would have with another director.
Unlike traditional hands-free solutions, the suite eliminates the need for a lengthy tuning process and dedicated hardware, lowering production costs and increasing design flexibility.
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Toyota employees would then work in the field and provide pro bono consulting services with the goal of increasing productivity and safety while helping to reduce production costs and time.
Certainly, greenhouse gas emissions are not the only consideration to be borne in mind in choosing a particular biofuel, and there is the matter of production-costs and the feasibility of making the fuel on the large scale, if any significant substitution for petroleum-derived fuels is to prove practical.
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The firm said the rise in cash costs came because of lower mine production and higher labor costs.
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Company profit was lower, despite higher revenues and production, down 6% due to lower metal prices and higher production costs.
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate expects investments exploration and production costs to keep increasing through 2013, which will directly result in higher revenues for providers of offshore exploration and drilling services.
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These products are also designed to optimize production yields, improve throughput, and reduce production costs.
The gains in oil and natural gas prices were offset by Exxon's shrinking refining and chemical margins, lower production volumes and higher operating costs.
And production costs for a Bollywood film are miniscule when weighed against the Hollywood standard.
To get there, the startup needs to develop higher-yield algae strains, cut production costs and attract capital.
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This strategy insulated JSPL from price volatility in commodity markets, thus bringing down production costs and boosting profitability.
The Delta II's production costs and other expenses were too high to justify serving limited government and commercial markets.
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This all means that an undervalued Yuan makes input prices (and production costs) higher than they otherwise would be.
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Plans were originally introduced following the 2009 milk crisis that saw a combination of rising production costs and falling prices.
Labor costs in China have also increased, a trend that could raise production costs and reduce gross margins for Nike.
While the company has taken some steps to cut production capacity and reduce costs, further restructuring is needed to restore profits.
Thus it is able to produce cheaper panels than anyone else and directly benefits from the lower raw material and production costs.
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