Since 2000 Chrysler has reduced its fixed costs by 10% and material costs by 15%.
Mittal figured he could cut his raw-material costs in half by buying direct-reduced iron rather than scrap.
Aprimo lets users log in key variables--names of suppliers, material costs, deadlines--into clean-looking screen templates customized for particular campaigns.
And since then, it has been plowing money into the business, taking advantage of low labor and material costs.
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Investors seem concerned by its shrinking margins, brought by higher raw material costs.
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Buyers tend to equate value with price, so "jade and diamonds are prized for their material costs, " she says.
He promised to accelerate many of those actions while cutting costs further in the face of higher gas prices and material costs.
Building-material costs rose by 30% from 2005 to 2007, says Flag's Mr. Kanavos.
The Asahi Shimbun report said a rise in Toyota's prices in the US would also reflect increased raw material costs.
Tata Steel is also struggling with weak demand and higher material costs and posted an 89% drop in its second-quarter profit.
Your raw material costs on the last and marginal dinner you prepare are still a significant part of the total costs.
The Commission attributed the slowdown to lower global demand, higher material costs, a volatile financial market and tight credit conditions in China.
The focus, too, is how to deal with rising raw material costs.
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Kellogg Co (NYSE:K) announced that first-quarter net income fell 2 percent, hurt by higher raw material costs, cutting its 2012 guidance.
Raw material costs have also risen from overseas and domestic sources, adding to labor cost pressures on the bottom line, survey respondents said.
His positive stance is based in part on the increasing efforts at simplifying back-office processes, lower raw material costs, and a better business mix.
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But with a global capacity glut in 2001 chemical prices softened, even as raw material costs like natural gas began a fivefold price increase.
Nonetheless, lower raw material costs pushed up the gross and operating profit margins by 356 and 73 basis points, respectively, to 25.14% and 6.73%.
Crowe warned that "stubbornly tight mortgage lending conditions, " bad appraisals, rising material costs and a shortage of land pose challenges to homebuilders in the future.
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However, he says, Europe is entering a phase where raw material costs could increase while the availability for cheap labor around the world will decline.
Analysts estimate that raw material costs will increase in fiscal 2012, though the company cites operational improvements and increased pricing as able to offset this.
While food businesses on the production end have benefited from the high prices, companies near the consumer end have suffered from rising raw material costs.
"These guys did a good job operationally, and importantly kept material costs aren't expected to be a headwind for the company in 2010, " De Maria said.
The third flag is the inability of a large number of US corporations to pass higher material costs on to consumers, even for basic must-buy items.
This is due to stable nature of the business, as raw material costs have been relatively stable thanks to long-term purchasing agreements with farmers and growers worldwide.
Continued research should also find even more optimal use of necessary microbes, reduced material costs and improved function of the technology at commercial scales, OSU scientists said.
On Wednesday, Credit Suisse analyst Mark Flannery lowered his year-end forecast for U.S. ethanol capacity to 9.5 billion gallons from 10.0 billion gallons, citing high raw material costs.
The positives neutralized the impact of higher raw material costs.
Cooper believes stabilizing raw material costs, flexible manufacturing operations, profitable investments and competitive labor agreements will help it improve results moving ahead despite of the headwinds faced by the industry.
This is accounted for by increasing raw material costs, currency movements (particularly the pound's fall against the euro), bottlenecks in the supply chain and construction in progressively more challenging sites.
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