Simple foundry business, just making chips to the designs of others, is pretty low margin stuff.
Many of these exporters are operating at a very low margin of 5% or less.
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The company is also quietly eliminating low margin cars that it's been selling to rental fleets.
The Aldi stores are small, low margin, high quality food stores with little fancy fixturing.
But none of that has anything to do with high volume or low margin trading activities.
Absent that it really is the low price, low margin, guys who will come and eat your lunch.
Payment of invoices to repairers can stretch long beyond what is acceptable, starving a low margin business even further.
As a condition of any deal, the partner would agree to sell the tests at a low margin in poor countries.
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While grocery is a low margin business compared to general retailing, it has an indirect effect on sales of other items.
Extensive financial rigor was applied to Sears to improve the profitability of every line item, dropping poor performers and closing low margin stores.
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They market their rooms the same way Wal-Mart markets a lot of its items: low price, low margin, but make it up on volume.
Let such low margin, low value things be made by poor people elsewhere while we concentrate on the high value, difficult to do, things.
The core reason was depressed US gas prices - that have become low margin at best - negative plays over full cycle economics at worst.
This is because if high sales are only maintained by producing low margin vehicles and offer incentives then manufacturers have little interest in expand production.
Capital intensive, cyclical and low margin, steel is in the dumps.
The recession in Spain is serious, and the company has been forced to reduce prices on 4500 items in order to be competitive with low margin retailers.
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Computers are a low margin business and choosing locations with some of the highest rent per sq. ft. in the nation make the prospect of profitability even less attainable.
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We expect the growth in its hardware business to be relatively sluggish initially as it phases out the low margin products while pushing its new high margin products to customers.
Although its services and printing business are doing well, the company is not able to show enough growth in these areas to offset it abysmal showing in its low margin areas.
Likewise, if you provide a low margin but high frequency services like payments you must find a way to retain customers for long enough to pay multiples of your customer acquisition cost.
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With Amazon having substantial experience in operating low-very low margin businesses, we expect the company to further cut down its prices to maintain a price advantage and rely on volumes to drive growth.
Oracle has been phasing out some of the legacy low margin products and introducing new profitable ones consistently, which has enabled it to boost its gross margins to almost 54% from 48% a year ago.
The naysayers point out that the Groupon market will be quickly commoditized, but Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN) has certainly shown that great companies can be built even in low margin businesses by combining unique technology with exceptional execution.
The markets that do the sort of high volume, low margin trades that would be affected by an FTT are the foreign exchange (FX), futures, options and stock markets (with special reference to high frequency trading of the often demonised computer algorithm type).
Even though Iomega won the battle of removable storage--it bought out the assets of its main rival, the bankrupt SyQuest , in late 1998--and its Zip drive is a de facto standard for PCs, Porter says the company made a critical error by selling the drives at a low margin, thinking profits would come from the sale of the disks.
They figure out ways to increase their high-margin work and decrease their low-margin work.
Whereas Apple only knows how to do high-margin businesses, Amazon only knows how to do low-margin businesses.
CDs and DVDs take up a lot of space, the turnover is low, the margin is low and the sales are falling.
Gross margin, however, will likely remain higher because this increase will pull subscribers away from low incremental margin DVD plans to the virtual 100% incremental margin streaming service.
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