Using less electricity, using less oil or using less water helps keep operating costs lower which allows Wal-Mart to keep prices down.
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Now the company Chairman is threatening to move the headquarters to another state, in order to find lower operating costs and lower taxes.
Increased operating costs, lower average realized metal prices and increased depreciation charges negatively impacted adjusted earnings, the company said.
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Thje company gets a little of that back at the operating income level, as a result of lower operating costs than in other parts of the world.
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And the team would be profitable because its operating costs would be lower.
And couldn't you imagine, Airbus, an airplane that would have lower operating costs.
In the ballpark of 15 to 20 percent lower operating costs per seat-mile?
It will also result in lower operating costs, enabling Best Buy to better compete with online retailers on prices.
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They will have lower operating costs compared with jets of similar size.
Companies with large metal byproduct credits in copper and zinc should see lower operating costs and improved margins from the previous quarter.
Unlike SpaceShip Two, the Lynx takes off from a runway and doesn't depend on a carrier ship, so it has lower operating costs.
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The increased scale created by an acquisition can also provide greater leverage when negotiating terms with suppliers, which can further lower operating costs.
The promised lower operating costs mean plenty of profit potential for airlines confident that they have enough heavy-traffic routes to fill most of the seats.
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The financial advantages to owning these assets, lower operating costs, higher resale value, it seems like that part of the story is still being written.
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It was boosted by strong pre-Christmas bookings and lower operating costs.
Renamed Cornerstone Natural Gas, Endevco sold off an oil refinery and some pipeline assets to help pay down debt, and trimmed staff to lower operating costs.
"We will further expand our store network with an emphasis on second- and third-tier cities that have lower operating costs and higher gross margin to maximize profitability, " Trinity Chairman Victor Fung said in response to e-mailed questions.
The good news is that, just as businesses are transforming their processes by investing in technologies such as cloud computing and big data analytics to lower operating costs, increase quality, make better decisions, and boost productivity, schools can do the same.
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The problem here is even if JBL is successful, it will continually run the risk of seeing its customers sucked into the huge FLEX and Foxconn machines that are designed to run profitably at lower operating costs than JBL can present at its relatively smaller scope and scale.
The company expects the new 737-800 aircraft to help it lower its operating costs while adding flexibility to its domestic schedule.
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Projected operating costs are expected to be lower than other mines because metals are closer to the surface, Begic said, with platinum assets about 80 meters below the surface.
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Lacking physical stores, it has lower operating and capital costs than rivals.
These developments are likely to result in accelerated decommissioning costs, increased capital expenditures for higher cost replacement generation, lower reserve margins, and higher operating costs at existing nuclear plants as a result of increased scrutiny, more stringent safety procedures, and longer required maintenance outages.
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But Airbus is claiming a similar step-change to the one that accompanied the launch of the 747: operating costs will be 15-20% lower than those of any rival aircraft, it says.
The gains in oil and natural gas prices were offset by Exxon's shrinking refining and chemical margins, lower production volumes and higher operating costs.
Because milling gold ore is an energy-intensive process, lower energy prices help to reduce operating costs.
As a result of current low natural gas prices, natural gas-fired power plant operating costs have fallen so much that they are now displacing previously lower cost coal-fired power in the dispatch order of many electricity supply regions.
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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%.
Meanwhile, as gold prices rose in recent years, companies often turned to lower-grade projects that have higher per-ounce operating costs.
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Typically, investors sell stocks when companies report lower margins because they worry it is a sign of increased operating costs or less-effective management execution.
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