At the same time, emerging markets exposure and new soda fountain innovations could drive material revenue growth in the next few years.
We do not currently expect any material impact on our revenue or on customer deliveries and lead times.
Lafarge's earnings are increasing, and yet the company is cheaper than most building-material peers at 1.3 times revenue and 13 times this year's earnings.
He sees a tantalizing promise: generating revenue to pay his writers by mining material already available on his website, which offers essays on technology and the arts.
To further trim raw material costs, which eat up 50% of revenue, he worked with engineers to decrease the standard half-liter bottle weight from 23 grams to 12 grams (nearest competitor Crystal Geyser has one weighing 14 grams).
Plus, FMC sells recession-resistant chemicals like coatings for pills, and a third of its revenue comes from specialty chemicals, including lithium, the raw material for the next generation of electric-vehicle batteries ( click here for related story).
Boente said the sides had agreed on the material aspects of the fight, including a 50-50 split of the revenue.
It gets the majority of its revenue in the U.S., where the use of quartz as a counter material is relatively new but expanding, trailing more common materials like granite.
The biggest computer-aided engineering software firms, Ansys, Dassault Systemes and LMS International, a Siemens subsidiary, have enjoyed double-digit revenue growth in recent years as large customers snap up their pricey suites of simulation and material analysis software.
For this reason, we recommend establishing a material crisis management room, analogous to a war room, to monitor and manage exposure to supply and revenue-stream disruptions.
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