Industrial unrest, spiralling costs and competition from budget airlines have combined to force Alitalia to the brink in recent years.
As a direct result of market reforms promoted by Mr McCarthy, power costs to industrial users has fallen by an impressive 30-40%, according to consumer group Energywatch.
First of all, the electrical system as a whole is very reliable in North Carolina and costs to industrial customers are about 30% lower than the national average.
Much of Sempra's trading consists in providing price hedges to industrial customers to smooth their costs of gas, electricity, steel, zinc or anything else.
As labor costs in the industrial centers such as Shenzhen and Shanghai increase, the solutions are increased automation and also to move factories to the interior of the country, i.e.
As the new millennium began engineers figured out how to make sensors wireless, greatly cutting the costs of each in industrial environments.
But unbridled industrial expansion came with unacceptable environmental costs.
But Wal-Mart was stymied recently when it tried to reduce costs by buying a tiny industrial bank.
They mean cheaper gas fill-ups, the survival of the airline and travel industry, and eventually cheaper materials and transportation costs embedded into every consumer and industrial product in early 2009.
The link between energy costs and economic performance in the main industrial economies is clear to see.
This feature alone is enough to give LEDs an enormous advantage in lower maintenance costs for many applications, especially in outdoor and industrial environments.
Indeed, the bottom line for Moscow appears to be the goal of making its military-industrial complex more efficient, achieving higher productivity even as the costs associated with the manufacture of state-of-the-art military hardware are reduced.
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Labor markets will weaken at first, but unemployed resources will over time migrate toward the manufacturing and industrial sectors most damaged by current policies that sustain such high labor costs.
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Using the Goldman Sachs Commodities Index as a proxy for the costs of mining (because it is heavily weighted towards industrial commodities), the real cost of mining gold jumped by nearly 50% during this period, explaining why gold stocks did not provide the leverage that gold investors expected.
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He said it was "absolutely fundamental" to keep borrowing costs low if the UK is to remain "a great industrial and trading country".
Whether any company flourishes or fails in the volatile period of transition between an aging Second Industrial Revolution and the emerging Third Industrial Revolution will depend, to a great extent, on their energy costs.
The increased costs added to pressure on low-margin manufacturers to move to industrial parks Guangdong was building in lower-wage, rural areas moves that fit Mr. Wangs's strategy.
It also is obliging Boris Yeltsin to participate in such a bidding process adding greatly to the already immense costs to Russia and the other new states of sustaining the military-industrial complex which should be the first to go over the budgetary side.
It also is obliging Boris Yeltsin to participate in such a bidding process -- adding greatly to the already immense costs to Russia and the other new states of sustaining the military-industrial complex which should be the first to go over the budgetary side.
China's low costs are luring Taiwan's manufacturers, hollowing out the island's industrial base.
Hence, the company's desire to cut costs might have pushed forward the closure of the Ryton factory, though strained industrial relations may also have played a part, observers say.
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The energy boom could create more than a million industrial jobs nationwide over the decade both to supply the industry and as a result of lower energy costs, according to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study.
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Yet falling transport costs have made this centripetal force less important over the past half-century, leaving many industrial cities, like Detroit, in deep trouble.
Union leaders point to low pay, spiralling housing costs and intense job insecurity as the corrosive cocktail which led their members to opt overwhelmingly for industrial action.
With their Velcro closures and zippers, the Halo sleep sacks can't be sent through hospitals' industrial laundries, the way blankets are, and instead must be sent out for special washing, adding to costs.
Wiseman was also hit by one-off financing costs and a higher tax bill due to the government's decision to phase out tax relief on industrial buildings.
It argues that limited upgrades and better organisation (coupled with Russia's very low labour costs) could make large parts it suggests three-quarters of the old Soviet industrial base profitable.
EIU's index measures the relative costs of doing business in 27 economies by compiling statistics relating to wages, costs for expatriate staff, air travel and subsistence, corporation taxes, perceived corruption levels, office and industrial rents, and road transport.
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