The fall in energy prices offset higher production as the company struggled to control costs.
Higher production, capacity and efficiency "drove significant margin expansion" during the quarter, Chief Executive JifanGaoJifan Gao said.
Much of the rise was down to higher production at its Airbus subsidiary, where revenue climbed by 16%.
Reporting rising prices while exporting the same amount of goods might give a false impression of higher production.
These higher production volumes will in turn raise demand for automotive batteries and interiors manufactured by Johnson Controls.
So, it's possible they might be willing to pay even more in a game with higher production values.
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Higher production, capacity and efficiency "drove significant margin expansion" during the quarter, Chief Executive Jifan Gao said.
Higher production in North America is expected to be offset by lower production in South America, Sokalsky reported.
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Company profit was lower, despite higher revenues and production, down 6% due to lower metal prices and higher production costs.
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Higher prices for such beverages can be attributed to higher production costs as well as their premium image aided by demand from health conscious consumers.
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The company suffered a massive decline of over 10% in gross margins last quarter due to higher production costs on account of rising cotton prices.
Designing them to light up an entire room or shine a beam over a long distance is far more technically challenging and requires higher production costs.
The Luxembourg-based company said that results in the third quarter were affected by a lower level of sales of seamless pipe products and higher production costs.
Product categories mature and that maturity is resulting in higher production costs, more intense competition from rivals like Samsung and less rapid expansion of the global smartphone market.
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This was due to higher production at San Dimas and the delivery of silver produced at Yauliyacu, Penasquito and 777 in the previous quarter being accounted for in the fourth quarter.
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The performance in Q was better than in the comparable period in 2011 due to higher average realized prices as well as higher production and sales of copper, gold, and molybdenum.
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In its quarterly earnings detail, Agnico-Eagle lifted its full-year production outlook to 1.025 million ounces of gold from 975, 000 ounces based on higher production, particularly from its Meadowbank mine in Nunavut.
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If these USB displays provide as high a viewing experience as HDMI cable displays and supply the display power as well it may be that USB will eventually displace HDMI due to the higher production volumes and consequently lower costs for USB cables.
And although the automaker has lost some market share this year, that was not unexpected since the Japanese automakers were expected to rebound strongly on higher production after they were hurt badly last year due to the tragic tsunami which impacted their production and supply chain.
And on Thursday, the Labor Department reported that third-quarter productivity of U.S. businesses increased 3.1 percent, reversing two straight quarterly declines and prompting some economists to say that companies may be trying to get higher production out of their current workforce rather than add staff given the uncertain outlook for consumer and business demand.
Greater production efficiencies and higher production volumes led to lower cost, enabling some ability to lower prices but the ability of the industry to sustain unit growth as well as storage capacity growth to match the needs of content hungry users and protect itself from competing technologies is threatened by the relentless drop in HDD ASPs.
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Importantly, higher crop production is resulting from higher yields per acre rather than merely an increase in land dedicated to crop production.
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The fact of the matter is, on oil and gas production, we have higher oil production in this country in -- had it in 2010 than we've had since 2003.
Strong operational performance and more volumes from Inotera led to higher DRAM production in the quarter.
"We're moving toward higher value production than our basic line of business, " says Binder.
We actually have seen higher oil production here in the United States than any time in our history.
Oil and other energy prices have come off the boil, again for reasons not yet clear (slowing economies and higher OPEC production?).
In the first quarter of fiscal 2013, higher automotive production in Asia and North America will drive sales growth of the company.
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