It takes a Henry Ford to go ahead and cannibalise a high margin business but that democratizing innovation impulse is exactly what is now reshaping the world.
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There will likely be some fall-out for high performance HDDs in these markets and the HDD companies such as Seagate, HGST (part of Western Digital) and Toshiba are introducing their own enterprise SSD products to stay competitive in this high margin business.
Go to Wall Street and tell long, confusing stories about how you are transforming H-P from a low-margin to a high-margin business.
Whereas specialist products are a high-margin business, Mr Bastiaens thinks of Voice Express as more about building a brand and publicising the technology.
That means he is turning his back on the kinds of large-scale seismic testing used to prospect for elephant fields--a high-margin business dominated by Schlumberger.
In addition to this, the high margin DVD business is declining.
It's a high-margin business, and consumers are gobbling it up.
But the rapidly growing mobile device market has attracted the attention of a diverse set of semiconductor manufacturers who are all vying for a greater chunk of the high-growth, high-margin business in the coming years.
" Responding to the run-up in WLT, Li said, "Walter has outperformed its peers because it has successfully transformed itself from a sub-prime lending and homebuilding and coal business to a pure play in high margin metallurgical coal business.
His company is going through a substantial restructuring which will see it shed its PC unit to concentrate on high-margin software business.
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The wholesaling of wireless broadband services is a low-margin, high-risk business.
The PC maker is scrambling to rebuild its business around high-margin services and sophisticated server-room gear.
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The City Airport was conceived as a low volume, high margin operation - focussing on the business traveller.
Our model was to grow organically with a high-volume, low-margin business.
Instead, Packard turned his eyes to a renegade manager named Dick Hackborn, who was cocky enough to think that HP could still compete in a brutal, high- volume, low-margin business.
Cheap DRAMs forced Intel out of this lousy commodity business and into high-margin microprocessors.
The DVD rental business is still a high margin one for the company.
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Hess has become the latest large-cap oil company to announce plans to shed its refining and downstream business to focus on high-margin exploration and production.
After weeks of interviewing employees and customers, Bassoul settled on a tough new strategy for the company: get rid of 15% to 25% of the business in favor of high-margin cooking and warming equipment.
These high-margin services are breathing new life into the business, as well as helping push the development of new cutting-edge services.
It may not be long before the Nook business begins contributing to the bottom line, thanks to high-margin book downloads.
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Although we expect IBM to maintain its high margins given the strength of its GBS business, a contraction in GBS profit margin in the future to historical average of rate of 12.5% would result in downside of 5% to the Trefis price estimate.
Consumables such as high-margin toner cartridges provide a steady flow of cash on the back of this printer business.
Focusing on high-margin drilling technology and tools, Duroc-Danner spun off the drill-pipe business as Grant Prideco in 2000 and sold off capital-intensive barge rig and gas-compression businesses.
Focusing on high-margin drilling technology and tools, Duroc-Danner spun off the drill-pipe business as Grant Prideco (nyse: GRP - news - people ) in 2000 and sold off capital-intensive barge rig and gas-compression businesses.
One high-ranking chemicals executive told me the scenario is surprisingly rosy for this notoriously low-margin business.
However, I am pleased with the progress we are making in improving and driving growth in our high-margin Signature platform, which generated its third consecutive quarter of sales growth and our pre-paid mobility business, which included the launch of the RadioShack branded line of phones.
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We expect the growth in its hardware business to be relatively sluggish initially as it phases out the low margin products while pushing its new high margin products to customers.
The Semiconductor Business sustained profitability in the quarter, amid weak market demand, thanks to a mix of high-margin products such as servers and Solid State Drives (SSDs) coupled with differentiated 20-nanometer class NAND flash chips.
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