Carmakers' embrace of "employee discount pricing" this summer helped their short-term bottom line, but it hurt their brands in the process.
And this summer's highly publicized employee discount pricing promotion took too many people back to the late '70s, when Detroit tried to induce customers to buy its cars by issuing rebate checks.
This is perceived as a benefit, since the stock is granted as compensation or sold at a steep discount to current pricing.
Once companies have finished the third and final year of that subsidized program, Microsoft says, they will be able to transition to purchasing commercial products at about a 50% discount to standard pricing.
Prior to the enforcement of IRC 409A, many companies might have used a default discount such as 80% for the pricing of options.
But by merging, they were able to stop bidding against one another for high-profile content and were able to avoid trying to out-discount one another when it came to pricing.
In some cases, advisors maintain pricing for their services at a discount to published fees.
Dollar retailers are hot among value investors, who find their liquid inventories and low margins attractive, compared with larger big-box discount retailers in the U.S. which must contend with food inflation costs and competitive pricing.
According to Zohar Hod of SuperDerivatives, a derivatives-pricing firm, there has already been movement away from LIBOR towards using overnight index swaps to discount cash flows on certain instruments.
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Ms Sturgeon said the quantity alcohol discount ban was a step in the right direction, but was designed to operate in tandem with minimum drink pricing, which the Scottish government now had the votes to pass.
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