Digital distribution results in cost-savings for producers who can skip retail, skip shipping costs, and forego manufacturing the actual discs, but those savings need to be passed on (at least to some degree) to consumers to offset the eventual end of used games.
It takes six times as long to obtain construction permits in Russia as in Sweden and, despite cheaper labour and land, the cost of building a distribution centre is a third more expensive than in London, according to McKinsey.
The distribution centers will be located in low-cost industrial areas.
The chief of Kynikos Associates warned that the video game retailer is in a business being destroyed by digital distribution as the cost of transmitting and storing bits of information heads toward zero.
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Fiat would also provide distribution capabilities in key growth markets, as well as substantial cost savings opportunities.
Why would a network voluntarily give up invaluable spectrum and distribution that could cost it hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising revenues?
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In other words, only the part of the distribution that represents non-deductible contributions (your cost basis) is tax-free.
We improved the cost base, expanded distribution from 80, 000 outlets to over 133, 000 in six months, optimized marketing investments behind priority brands and ramped up innovations.
For example, a CEO may decide that the following goals are essential: Increasing products or pipeline, improving distribution channels, making cost structures flexible to cyclicality, accelerating quality improvement, and establishing market leadership in a given segment or geography.
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"Google's predatory distribution of Android at below-cost makes it difficult for other providers of operating systems to recoup investments in competing with Google's dominant mobile platform, " FairSearch said in a statement.
Up to now, those scale economies of fuel efficiency and of capital cost in these large generating units have been so great as to be able to absorb the additional cost of transmission and distribution and still be lower than any competing form of electrical generation (except of course where plentiful hydroelectric generation could be built).
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