Babies "R" Us has increased sales 10% annually since 2000, and its EBIT margin (earnings before interest and taxes as a percentage of sales) has averaged 11%.

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He sees potential for EBIT margin expansion with Engenio.

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Above, the average forecast of Trefis members for mobile phones EBIT margin for emerging markets indicates that margins will stay flat at around 12.5%, compared to the baseline Trefis estimate of a decrease from 10.5% in 2010 to 7.5% during the same period.

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Nissan expects its sales in Europe to stay flat this year but to rise 6% in Japan and 6.2% in the U.S. Ghosn aims to add 28 Nissan models and boost sales by 40% by 2004 while cutting costs by 15% and regularly posting an EBIT margin of 8%.

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This part of the company is the black sheep, with a margin (EBIT) averaging 3% over the past three years, compared with 13% for the rest of Honeywell.

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After writeoffs, layoffs and offshoring (the jobs went to Asia and Mexico), the margin (EBIT) doubled in 2003 to 5% and hit 10% in the first nine months of 2004.

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