Borders, which owns 25% of Toronto-based Kobo, is not looking to create fat profit margins from this device.
Oligopolies that generate fat profit margins and leave banks with little incentive to take risk actually suit regulators.
To brace for the Cheap Revolution, Microsoft et al. will be forced to give up the fat profit margins they have enjoyed for years.
In the early 1990s he acquired a stake in Portugal's Media Capital, built it up and later sold shares to Prisa at a fat profit.
Still, you can see where Jacob gets those fat profit margins.
Also enjoying fat profit margins are leading power companies outside Japan.
Can he cater to the wealthy without disregarding hoi polloi who handed him his first successes and also maintain a fat profit margin (about 13% for 2000, on par with Merrill Lynch)?
Long-term, they know that government regulations, including tougher rules on fuel economy and safety, plus new technologies, will drive up development costs and make it harder to sustain the fat profit margins pickups are known for.
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"In other words, whether you build a business up over 30 years and then dispose of all or part of it, or whether you buy a bunch of shares at 0900 and then sell them at a fat profit at 1000, you'll now pay exactly the same 18% rate of tax, " said Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor.
They also depend on how fat the profit margins are in the firm that loses custom, since that determines how much each consumer gains from switching.
Profit margins are fat, so firms should be able to absorb higher wages without raising prices.
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Having enjoyed profit margins as fat as 60% in the 1993-1995 boom, DRAM makers are still hoping the good old days will soon return.
When your profit margins are too fat it attracts all kinds of competition eventually causing your profits to revert to the mean.
VCs, they say, are in the business of fostering entrepreneurship with start-up money, while buyout firms acquire a company, trim out the fat, then dump it for a handsome profit.
That was right before the housing markets in many parts of the country began an extraordinary boom and also a time when many banks were scrambling to get bigger in consumer finance, attracted by its promise of fat fee income, and scaling back in branch banking, which was considered low-profit and, well, boring.
For support, he points to a fat new report he has recently received from a group of people used to running such non-profit institutions as the Federal Reserve, Yale and the Northern Ireland peace process.
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