Economies of operating scale are vital to the math.
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Prop 19 allows for local regulation, which would inhibit operating at scale.
But in a letter to domestic electrical good retailers the Commission has said it was unlikely to find that the Dixons Group was operating a 'scale' monopoly in the sale of warranties as the firm had slightly less than 25% market share.
At the municipal level, the pioneer operating on a grand scale is the city of Philadelphia.
The PSNI has repeatedly warned that Northern Ireland is increasingly being targeted by international crime gangs operating on a global scale.
Your mission is to create a cohesive global brand presence that captures all the scale of operating a brand at a global level.
If the foreigners plan to underprice the locals by operating on a larger scale, it will take a long time and a lot of investment in a shrinking market.
Margin benefits from greater scale and operating leverage.
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For example, the sea services will largely cease operating in South America and scale back operations in the Middle East and Western Pacific.
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Not only on a national level, but also on a global scale MYKITA is operating on a vertical axis to insure impeccable quality control.
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"We are just starting to see the full potential of the global scale and the operating margin benefits through the One Ford plan, " Fields said.
We're now on track to go from zero -- zero commercial-scale biofuel refineries to 19 by the year 2012, and from no commercial-scale power plants operating carbon capture to five by the year 2015.
As a focused directory business, we also believe returns to scale and potential incremental operating margin remain significant.
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To minimize future chaos and literally keep the trains running, Kaspersky and his company are expanding their ambitions beyond mere antivirus software to build their own, extra-secure operating system just for large-scale industry.
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Finally, overcapacity pressured operating margins, impacting players that lack scale or management expertise to reduce costs.
Though Symbian's certainly not getting as much share of the mobile discussion these days as some of its smaller competitors, it's certainly important to keep in mind that these guys have software deployed on literally hundreds of millions of devices, making this perhaps the largest-scale conversion of a closed operating system to open source in history.
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While there are industries where it makes sense to allow duopolies or even monopolies to obtain economies of scale and network effects computer operating systems and electric utilities might be two examples the tradeoff usually is that they must accept closer government regulation to prevent price-gouging and other abuses.
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With a full-strength workforce operating at reduced hours, businesses have the ability to scale up quickly when their economic situation improves.
We call that operating system elastic to signal the way that it breaks with the scale economics of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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It said retailers in Northern Ireland "are more likely to be operating at low levels of volume that fail to exploit economies of scale".
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.
He notes that ADP has been operating quietly, but that the company knows how to manage large-scale services at scale: he notes that ADP has 550, 000 clients, over 200, 000 of them using the software-as-a-service versions of payroll products, covering more than 40 million people.
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The daunting scale this effort entails has kept the number of smaller companies like Vaisala operating in this field fairly small.
And on a larger scale, tour operators such as Air Transat and G Adventures have recently started operating art and culture tours to Haiti.
It also said the units would create businesses which were "of sufficient scale to be efficient, but which are easier to manage as they will be operating in the same time zone".
Apple gets a lot of attention by being cheeky, stylish and having a marginally better operating system, but it is up against a monolith nine times its size, with all the economies of scale, distribution and the marketing reach that comes with such size.
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