The consultants' draft final report said the negative effects included squeezing margins and increasing costs for hauliers.
But high programming costs are squeezing margins, and that segment of the business is less and less profitable.
Not so much in that they will lose custom, but that yet another player in hte market might raise the rates the record companies try to charge thus squeezing margins again.
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The macro headwinds have led to lower revenue margins and high promotional spending, in turn further squeezing operating margins.
With discounting squeezing profit margins down to 3-4% and the Internet threatening to cut them further, Europe's big operators see scale as their best defence.
Giant distillers also are squeezing distributor margins from a traditional 25% to below 10% on bestselling labels--while failing to come up with high-growth brands to replace missing profits.
Higher manufacturing costs are squeezing profit margins for furriers.
Apart from the higher commodity costs, the lack of higher menu prices is squeezing the profit margins.
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But in thin times they take an interest in such matters, squeezing the industry's margins.
Managed care has largely achieved one-time savings by squeezing out irrationalities and high margins from the traditional fee-for- service system.
And, as happened with Medicare, the government has been relentless in cutting the pricesit will pay for vaccines, thereby severely squeezing the producers' profit margins.
And, as happened with Medicare, the government has been relentless in cutting the prices it will pay for vaccines, thereby severely squeezing the producers' profit margins.
Squeezing out costs to boost margins seems doable, and Kraft can certainly get closer to its EPS goals with the aid of share buybacks, if need be.
He is a past-master at squeezing the maximum of power from the narrowest of margins.
Such giant combines might be able to hike premiums while squeezing spending on patient care even tighter in an effort to rebuild their margins--and continuing to let their chief executives pile up personal fortunes in salary and stock.
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