More worrisome, Hyundai's profit margins are getting squeezed by a rising won and rising materials costs.
Still, Doyle managed to hold the projected increase in raw-materials costs of the new pizzas to less than 10 percent.
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With huge oversupply in some industries, and big rises in raw-materials costs, many manufacturers are having to endure wafer-thin margins.
Higher materials costs affected every segment of the business, offsetting sales increases that were notably higher in Latin America and Asia.
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Respondents also suggested that cost burdens rose again in Scotland as a result of higher fuel, labour and raw materials costs.
Profits narrowed on increased materials costs, rising 18% in the fourth quarter, and on costs associated with new store openings and international expansion.
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Industry leaders also worry about the future impact of cutbacks to public construction spending and construction materials costs that have been outstripping building bid prices.
The reciprocal here is major users of steel like General Motors plumb new lows, too, but they will benefit from lower raw materials costs going forward.
Clorox, which uses plastics for bleach containers and its Glad trash bags, plans to offset higher materials costs by hiking prices in January on 40% of products.
Under HSTP the aim is to achieve structural efficiencies in three areas production, direct materials costs, and indirect costs, where current total costs are JPY 9 trillion (USD 113 billion).
As an integrated steel manufacturer, U.S. Steel (26.8 million tons annual capacity) is well positioned for higher demand, with a rich product mix, favorable raw materials costs and profitable plants in Europe.
Applied intends to trim the industry's costs in four ways: boost solar factory throughput, improve the productivity of every tool, cut materials costs by using photovoltaic materials more sparingly and raise solar cell efficiencies.
So this all looks very fine, but with commodities like cotton having spiked in the last quarter, and many retailers citing higher materials costs as affecting margins already, where are the price hikes in apparel?
When RTD first started to recognize the financial challenges due to the escalation in construction materials costs and the recession, we began to pursue a public-private partnership (P3) to implement part of the FasTracks transit expansion program.
Retail numbers from the Commerce Department Wednesday show that consumers have found more spending momentum to meet rising commodity and materials costs that are already being passed directly to consumers, with food prices, apparel, and most noticeably gasoline prices all rising in the first quarter of 2011.
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Many Japanese SMEs have the technology and knowledge base, yet are capital-poor with exorbitantly high labor and materials operations costs relative to Chinese firms.
There is the cost of your service or product (your time, materials or costs), the fee or prices you would charge on the open market, and then there is the value you would put on it when trading for something you might never have had the luxury nor the budget for.
That meant their margins took a double hit from rising raw materials and labour costs.
They mean cheaper gas fill-ups, the survival of the airline and travel industry, and eventually cheaper materials and transportation costs embedded into every consumer and industrial product in early 2009.
Consumer products companies have been making their soaps more concentrated for years to save on packaging materials and transportation costs, as well as to make room for more jugs on store shelves.
Yet the company believes that its ability to manufacture high quality materials at lower costs will allow it to offer a better overall product at cheaper prices than its more firmly entrenched competitors.
Profits were offset by higher input costs on materials like wood pulp during the quarter.
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Buckley rattled investors by saying margins may be hit by higher costs for materials and by the need to fund pensions.
In some cases, collective purchasing of raw materials can help reduce costs.
Profits were offset by monetary declines in Venezuela and soft demand in North American markets, in addition to higher input costs for materials.
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The company highlighted the positive aspects of pricing actions and product cost reduction, but both of these were more than offset by higher costs for materials and labor.
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The U.S. has a large pool of available labor, abundant raw materials and falling energy costs, said Paul van Eeden, president of Cranberry Capital, a private Canadian holding company.
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However, operating margins contracted to 7.8% from 10% in the previous year quarter due to a combination of higher costs of materials and an increase in average retail incentive offered by GM.
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If these deals fail to attract shoppers and stores are forced to offer further price cuts, it could cut into profit margins, particularly as retailers have been facing rising costs of materials from cotton to gold, retail experts said.
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What has been proven is that if you are one of the top spenders, innovation will impact gross margin (the percentage of revenue left over after subtracting the costs of materials, labor, manufacturing, and direct shipping, and after paying other expenses incurred in making the products or services sold).
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