Brands Inc. (NYSE:YUM) is an American quick service restaurant chain operating 37, 000 restaurants in 110 countries.
The chain's operating (Ebitda, that is) margin, 11% in 2006, will likely erode through 2007.
David Walker, senior vice president of logistics, says that electronic monitoring of items from point of origin to the warehouse could boost the chain's operating margin from 11.5% to 12.5%.
Nonetheless, trade at its Primark stores was more intense than expected, which - along with lower than expected manufacturing costs due to a drop in cotton prices - helped the chain achieve better operating profit margins than a year ago.
Due in large part to the popularity of new products such as CINEMA SCREEN 3D Smart TV in the Korean market and improvements in supply chain management, operating profit nearly doubled to 217 billion (USD 191.9 million) from the same period the previous year.
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The King Harry Ferry is a chain ferry which has been operating since 1888.
Together, the firms hope to tackle every link in the chain that keeps unlicensed pharmacies operating by stopping them using ads on search engines, taking their websites offline, delisting the domains they use and stopping payments reaching them.
Green Mountain preferred to keep the chain of coffee shops intact and operating under the Tully's name.
Barnes said the Cleveland-based business provides inventory management, technical sales and supply chain services for maintenance, repair, operating and production supplies.
Ken Gutman spent 22 years at Sign-A-Rama, a West Palm Beach, Fla. franchisor of business-sign shops, climbing from store manager to chief operating officer of the 1, 300-unit chain.
Since 2006, HD increased its operating margin through efforts such as developing its supply chain management, which reduced cost of transportation and inventory, and developing a formal distribution channel which increased bargaining power over suppliers.
We have a wide variety of players: doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, employers, government and researchers, all operating in an environment that makes up a complex supply chain.
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Primarily operating in the Southeast, RGNC moves natural gas through the distribution chain.
Yet the employees who carry out the operations that make up much of a supply chain's individual components, such as driving trucks, overseeing warehouses or operating fork-lifts, are not always treated as though their jobs are important.
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