They are raising prices aggressively, way above their own incremental costs of labor and materials.
Among the biggest drivers of this advantage will be the costs of labor, natural gas, and electricity.
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The other half to two-thirds reflects costs of material, labor, and overhead from other countries.
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So Iridium had tried to push high-priced handsets and costly calls to quickly recoup the costs of parts, labor and distribution.
What has been proven is that if you are one of the top spenders, innovation will impact gross margin (the percentage of revenue left over after subtracting the costs of materials, labor, manufacturing, and direct shipping, and after paying other expenses incurred in making the products or services sold).
You have high labor costs and the constant threat of labor unrest.
The main idea: Let others shoulder the capital and labor costs of building a car.
More often than not an airline bankruptcy is a result of inequality of labor costs between one carrier and another.
Outside of labor costs, the nation is a challenging place for sourcing.
Each Digs Estimate includes specific breakdowns of labor costs (such as demolition, backsplash and cabinet installation) and materials (such as countertops and appliances).
As you know, all developed countries are struggling with the issue of labor costs at home and how to address structural issues in their manufactoring sectors.
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That does not include all the information technology or labor costs of analyzing that data, but companies are sprouting up to take care of that, too.
Other factors I expect to help hold down inflation include the downward pressure on labor costs of the rapid expansion in productivity since the middle of 2009.
The labor costs of overseeding are also significant.
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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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The main areas of focus included business costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, current economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life.
Because of the recession, Babb and Rutledge were able to reduce labor costs and the cost of equipment.
Ford, Renault and Volkswagen have all decided to expand production in Spain because of cheaper labor costs.
Businesses will see their health-coverage expenses rise from ten per cent of total labor costs to seventeen per cent.
Previous projects have been money pits, on average exceeding budgets by 56%, by dint of high labor costs and engineering mistakes.
All peripheral countries have made significant progress toward regaining competitiveness in terms of unit labor costs, albeit at a high price in unemployment.
There was also the matter of UK labor costs.
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The growing trend of multinationals shifting some of their product sourcing from China to other countries in Asia has been driven by a combination of rising labor costs, worker shortages, inflation, currency appreciation and changing policies.
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At the same time, pending increases in electricity costs and the potential of further labor unrest over the coming months, when wage contracts will be up for renegotiation, as well as uncertainty over mining legislation, have all helped exacerbate an already challenging situation.
What really matters for jobs and competitiveness is not consumer price inflation, but the rate of change of unit labor costs. (Unit labor costs are wage rates adjusted for changes in productivity.) A recent study from the Boston Consulting Group suggests that Chinese unit labor costs will grow at about 8.5 percent per year over the next five years.
Remington Arms has already moved management and some skilled-labor positions to North Carolina because of the tax policies and labor costs in New York.
These bottlenecks could radically inflate the price of basic materials like silicon and create labor shortages that would affect the costs of manufacturing solar modules, designing and installing new solar systems and operating and maintaining already installed systems.
Conservatively speaking, then, it appears that over the past couple of years, the real exchange rate of the yuan, deflated by unit labor costs, has been appreciating against the dollar at a rate of something like 15 percent per year.
For decades, plentiful Chinese labor kept down costs of a range of goods bought by Americans.
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