Higher interests rates also increase profits margins which in turn attract investors and eventually, competitors.
If a company can increase profits without increasing its expenditure on labor, it will.
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He believes using more-professional hotel-management techniques to gauge daily rate demand can increase profits.
The problem is that motivation to increase profits may work against the interest of patients.
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In the same vein, a good product mix can dramatically improve delivery costs and increase profits.
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"All the employees became united to reduce costs and increase profits, " Mr Inamori told reporters on Monday.
The rush to increase profits has come to naught and in many cases led to financial disaster.
Wimbledon press spokesman Johnny Perkins said an exodus of football fans from the complex could even help increase profits.
Basically, the higher oil prices are, the more oil and derivative products will be sold, which should increase profits.
The pick-up in industrial production is combining with business restructuring to increase profits.
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They operate in a volume business and have tried to increase profits by increasing volume while dealing with margin compression.
But as the world became smaller, outsourcing, an easier way to increase profits, a lot of those jobs shifted to low-wage nations.
Nor is there much pressure from big shareholders to increase profits: the cross-shareholdings of the keiretsu come with an implicit non-aggression pact.
Analysts reporting to Thomson IBES expect ICAP to increase profits at an annual clip of 12% over the next three to five years.
Research on loyalty has found that increasing customer retention by as little as 5 percent can increase profits by 25 to 95 percent .
Newer products add features that increase profits to issuers, making it ever more difficult for investors to value and evaluate the merits of the investment.
The NCAA is just a trade organization meant to increase profits.
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The decision is important for future False Claims Act cases because it requires the government to prove more than just a corporate effort to increase profits.
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Thus the strategy is not simply to increase profits from groceries, but to drive more traffic in stores to promote sales of other retail items as well.
"A strong luxury group will increase profits because it will allow Ford to sell to all consumer variants while retaining current Ford customers, " he said in a recent report.
Barclays has been fined by financial regulators for fixing Libor, not just during the financial crisis, but also as far back as 2005, when traders manipulated rates to increase profits.
Here's a way to shorten your job search: Approach a company with a project that you can implement to help increase profits, and ask for a meeting to discuss the idea.
Cripe even wrote a book, "Greed, Scandal and Wrongful Deaths at Tenet Healthcare Corporation, " detailing the various investigations and accusing Tenet of cutting costs, cutting care and breaking rules to increase profits.
Higher crude prices in the third quarter helped a number of companies, including the likes of Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips, sharply increase profits despite a decrease in production from a year ago.
Economist Milton Friedman has argued that it is the social responsibility of corporations to increase profits thereby putting more people to work and paying more taxes to support programs that benefit the general public.
An ACO would want to securitize the EOC because it can exchange future cash flows for money now, possibly using that money to modernize systems and management techniques in order to increase profits from other EOCs.
These treatments help to increase profits.
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The Student Loan Lending Industry has been under scrutiny and 11 states Attorney Generals have brought suits in the past regarding unscrupulous admissions practices, and lack of transparency from college admissions departments and evidence of corroboration with lenders to increase profits.
The first sort, and the one that has raised the most ire, involved groups of derivatives traders at Barclays and several other unnamed banks trying to influence the final LIBOR fixing to increase profits (or reduce losses) on their derivative exposures.
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And as a manufacturer for the mass market (niches are different: I could in fact see a small market for pink fire engines among a certain set of parents) the way to increase profits is to acknowledge and develop for these very differences.
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