Economies of scale are the cost savings associated with a larger production size of certain product, the larger the production scale, the lower the per unit product cost.
Economies of scale are the cost savings associated with a larger production scale (size) of certain product, the larger the production scale, the lower the per unit product cost.
This product issue impacted enterprise product unit shipments by approximately 1.5 million units and drove our non-GAAP gross margin below our targeted plan.
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Oil and gas refining will grow in unit volume, though product prices will decline in this energy boom.
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Say, in a grocery store, when you try to find out the unit price for a product, there's those various small stickers on the shelves.
These manufacturers are able to analyze a price elasticity curve, yielding a forecast of the average unit retail price before product development dollars are spent.
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"Acer is partnering with WD to bring advanced notebook performance and capacity in the smallest form factor, " said David Lee, associate vice president of Mobile Computing Product business unit at Acer.
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Rather than excluding an entire pharmaceutical giant for example, which many say is impractical, limit the exclusion to the product or business unit that was the locus of the fraud.
Using social media and word of mouth, the company offered to match the purchase of every unit with an equivalent contribution of product for the victims of Sandy.
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For the past three product upgrades, iPhone unit sales have jumped 41%, 66% and 117% as consumers wait to see what is coming out to make a purchase decision.
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Suddenly he was responsible not just for end-of-period financial reporting but also for a new financial planning and analysis unit, an expanded roster of product finance managers, a newly installed financial system, and occasional meetings with stock analysts.
The iPad has been out only since April, and has already surpassed a 27-year-old product, the Mac, in unit shipments.
Earnings at Vivendi's games business Activision Blizzard grew 38.6% and the unit has raised its earnings outlook thanks to strong product launches.
Alvarez is banking that fewer, more robust partnerships will yield economies of scale: As each distributor carries more product into stores, the overall per-unit cost of distribution will drop.
Because the number of potential customers for such experimental sensors is small, the firms manufacturing them have to charge a high price per unit just to cover the fixed costs of designing the product, setting up the factory, and so forth.
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Social value starts at the unit of one: one person, one community, one product or service.
"Nokia continues to lead the field in NFC with this latest implementation on the Windows Phone platform, in which we have the full support of Orange, " said Ilari Nurmi, head of product marketing for Nokia's Smart Devices business unit.
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Trinity told her its parent, a unit of OppenheimerFunds, had recently hired Callan for a "significant" product evaluation but no more.
And if the map looks at all familiar, it may be that you've tried another Garmin product, the Streetpilot III, Garmin's flagship automotive unit.
Scenario development helps them to understand what the future can be like, and drive their product development toward creating new markets with more customers, more unit sales, higher revenues and improved cash flow.
Curiously, one product that's currently immune from the announcement is the Next Unit of Computing (NUC), a miniature barebones system that will see continual development from Intel.
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John Ceriale, a consultant to Blackstone Real Estate Partners, has asked NTM to find marketers that want to direct TV ads and product samples to people who check into Blackstone's 670-unit Extended Stay Hotels.
He must find a way to shrink the finance unit's balance sheet (freeing up cash for the parent to use for product development and for possible factory closings and job cuts) while keeping the profit engine from conking out.
Let's start with the basics: the main specs on our unit include Android 1.6 (which will definitely be obsolete for the final product), five-inch 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, Snapdragon QSD8250 chipset (with CPU clocked at 1GHz), Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and WCDMA radio.
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The previous most recent rapid-adoption consumer product was the iPhone that took almost twice as long to achieve the same unit sales.
Example: Last week, Lands' End , a unit of Sears Holdings, rolled out a huge new online gift guide that breaks down product selections by recipient profiles (say, "baby" or "pet" gifts) and price points.
The product was popular in the U.K. in the 1970s, became a unit of Cadbury-Schweppes, then was sold to an Israeli investor in 1998.
The company noted that it has been selling the Galvanic Spa facial unit for 10 years in the U.S. as a cosmetic appliance, and that the product has a solid safety record.
Recently, in connection with a review of in-bound shipments of the Galvanic Spa facial unit, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indicated its belief that the product needed to be registered as a medical device before being imported.
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