Why would a company with those juicy gross margins mess around with low-margin hardware?
All of those players are more schooled than Chambers in thriving in low-margin businesses.
AutoNation had no fundamentally better way to make money at this mature, highly competitive, low-margin business.
One high-ranking chemicals executive told me the scenario is surprisingly rosy for this notoriously low-margin business.
The Crowns picked a crowded, low-margin business, selling brand-name computers and parts, for their Tempe, Ariz.
Searfoss targets Eastman Kodak for the stiff competition it confronts in a low-margin business.
If the free market works as advertised, this should end up as a low-margin business.
They figure out ways to increase their high-margin work and decrease their low-margin work.
The often low-margin assembly operations were hit hard by declining orders and rising cost of production.
Whereas Apple only knows how to do high-margin businesses, Amazon only knows how to do low-margin businesses.
At the same time, it intends to eliminate 70, 000 low-margin rental car sales, which should help profits.
The problem: AutoNation had no fundamentally better way to make money at this mature, highly competitive, low-margin business.
There is the mass-market segment: bland, commoditised, low-margin, fast turnover, and unsavourily exploitative if you look too closely.
For instance, in the low-margin consumer-electronics sector, the missing include TCL of China and Funai Electric of Japan.
The company found itself selling low-margin, mass-market beer to an aging and shrinking North American and British market.
Second, dispersed electronic databases can aggregate demand, opening up low-margin markets that depend on high volumes for their viability.
For each (low-margin) pencil sold in Office Depot's corner of Amazon, the online service gets just a small fee.
The company recreated itself from a low-margin, commodity-driven, regional oil refiner into a less-cyclical, higher-margin, global specialty chemicals company.
There were reports in credible sources that Amazon would jump into smartphones with its signature low-end, low-margin strategy.
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Not exactly--Nortel was looking at shedding the low-margin bottom of its optical-components business, saving the jazziest lines for itself.
That meant exacting more favorable terms from suppliers, throwing out low-margin brands and restocking his stores with Luxottica frames.
You need a whole bunch of other services that a high-volume, low-margin player isn't going to deliver to you.
Even in good times electronics can be a grinding, low-margin business--just ask Sony.
Thanks to a raft of low-end low-margin smartphones, Android is established as the dominant consumer platform around the world.
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It's a low-margin but steady business: DTCC charges six-tenths of a cent per trade to net out purchases and sales.
Perhaps they see a low-growth, low-margin company that, for all its calisthenics, is really too big to change much.
If Philips shed its low-margin consumer electronics business, it could become the undisputed globally dominant near-pure play for 21st century illumination.
For years Goodyear had chased volume, selling low-margin tires to auto manufacturers and replacement tires to the middle of the market.
Selling cars has become such a low-margin business that dealers see remote diagnostics as a way to keep customers coming back.
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.
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