He wrote inflation had "persisted even as demand has moderated and the pricing power of corporates weakened".
Meanwhile, PulteGroup cited pricing power in its quarterly report and fellow home builder DR.
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With this backdrop, the combination of two low-end brands might not generate much pricing power.
Arrow spent 15 years buying up smaller distributors to gain efficiencies and pricing power.
Restricted supply meant money lenders had monopoly pricing power and could charge borrowers artificially high rates.
Pressures are growing here at home to squeeze the pricing power of pharmaceutical companies.
It may become the only way to reduce costs, gain pricing power and ensure profitability.
These features could give Microsoft better pricing power in selling its licenses to enterprises.
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Companies complain of limited pricing power in a slow, highly competitive world economic environment.
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As a result, these networks are in great demand and ensure good pricing power.
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Powell stated that they expected commodity prices to continue rising and possibly affect costs and pricing power.
Rising fuel costs are pricing power out of the means of some of the world's poorest people.
Pricing power was not a strategic goal since our market share was still far short of dominant.
They must grow their companies with little pricing power and against tough and seemingly endless global competition.
The overlap is inefficient: it duplicates research and development, reduces economies of scale and destroys pricing power.
But deflation that comes from a lack of pricing power and lower final demand is not good.
Probably because they prefer the secrecy, pricing power, less regulation and oversight afforded by being off exchange.
As home builders increase that inventory, they are set to gain pricing power, increasing their operating margins.
What is more, globalisation, itself spurred by information technology, has further trimmed the pricing power of firms.
Well, companies sometimes have protection from inflation embedded in their pricing power, in the margins of their businesses.
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Their success has spurred more consolidation across the industry as companies use size to gain more pricing power.
Most likely it is because government intervention is crowding out and undermining pricing power of private lenders.
This would result in lower product demand, as well as, erase the pricing power the industry currently enjoys.
This gave Cemex important scale economies, enhanced its pricing power in its home market and parried Holderbank's thrust.
Mr Kloppers was careful to deny that one aim of the merger was to gain additional pricing power.
Adelman believes that no matter how far domestic consumption drops, the industry's pricing power will more than offset it.
This could cause a decline in pricing power and inflation of costs, particularly relating to employee retention and training.
"The resultant four national players would continue to exert weak pricing power, " says a new Deutsche Bank research note.
The trend of flexing pricing power for corporate players can be seen in commodities, special chemicals and even coffee.
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"We were losing business, and we were losing pricing power, too, " Goode says.
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