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.
Futures and other derivatives trading is a much higher growth and higher margin business for exchanges.
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But this is lower-margin business that contributed only JPY 50.3 billion in gross profits in FY 2010.
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The problem: AutoNation had no fundamentally better way to make money at this mature, highly competitive, low-margin business.
Expansion of the subscriber base matters because it enables NFLX to put more units through an expanding-margin business model.
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Furthermore, the Paypal division that has the most exciting growth is a lower margin business than the marketplace revenue.
Even in good times electronics can be a grinding, low-margin business--just ask Sony.
Payment of invoices to repairers can stretch long beyond what is acceptable, starving a low margin business even further.
While grocery is a low margin business compared to general retailing, it has an indirect effect on sales of other items.
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.
By redirecting resources away from defensive activities, new solutions can be created before the proverbial roof collapses in the declining margin business.
The Crowns picked a crowded, low-margin business, selling brand-name computers and parts.
Whereas specialist products are a high-margin business, Mr Bastiaens thinks of Voice Express as more about building a brand and publicising the technology.
That means he is turning his back on the kinds of large-scale seismic testing used to prospect for elephant fields--a high-margin business dominated by Schlumberger.
Our model was to grow organically with a high-volume, low-margin business.
Packaging has been a low-margin business ever since Bemis Brothers Bag Co. got its start 140 years ago, and it's growing at a measly 5% now.
Given that storage software is a higher margin business as compared to storage hardware, NetApp will not want to risk any further loss of market share.
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Shinkong and China Life rely much more on first-year premiums than Cathay and, since the first-year premium is such a low-margin business, it means lower profits.
Consumer publishing is a low-growth, low-margin business, but Pearson is probably stuck with Penguin Putnam because Bertelsmann, the only likely prospective purchaser, just bought Random House.
It takes a Henry Ford to go ahead and cannibalise a high margin business but that democratizing innovation impulse is exactly what is now reshaping the world.
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It's a high-margin business, and consumers are gobbling it up.
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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Instead, Packard turned his eyes to a renegade manager named Dick Hackborn, who was cocky enough to think that HP could still compete in a brutal, high- volume, low-margin business.
This control that consumers have over prices has led some analysts to predict that e-commerce can at best only ever be a low-margin business, and at worst a no-margin business.
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