The year over year improvement is primarily due to lower retail selling expenses associated with our no-contract offering as well as a lower cost structure resulting from our cost cutting initiatives in 2011.
What is genuinely new in all this is not so much the idea of bundling risks, but the idea that transferring them changes the firm's structure and cost of capital.
When cost structure is maintained almost all the revenue drops to the bottom line beyond the cost of goods sold.
Fedex is another great example of an organization rethinking its cost structure without impacting service quality.
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They are starting to gain confidence that their U.S. operations can support a U.S.-based cost structure.
The concern by investors is that NetFlix cost structure will increase, particularly on the content side.
It has its own cost structure, tax implications and benefits to the end consumer.
Interface built the carpet industry's most oil-independent cost structure while cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 82%.
But with a low-cost structure and a quick development cycle, Socialbakers can be a big winner.
The cost structure of the project, he says, is about the same as current exploration.
Higher sales with a lower cost structure pushed gross margin from 55.9% to 57.8%.
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"We're not going to grow into our cost structure but live differently, " he says.
The better doctor came with a comparable cost structure and I was actually cured.
"We have to have the same cost structure as the startups--we can't give any quarter, " he says.
Meanwhile, Pathmark gets relief from its biggest problem--a bloated cost structure driven by wage and health care inflation.
Additionally, Clearwire continues to aggressively alter its cost structure to allow for more expense variability tied to growth.
But Hormel is hedging some of that risk on top of efforts to pare down the cost structure.
When copying content had the cost structure of the printing press high set-up and low marginal costs copyright made sense.
At that time, the new CEO at Merck was very focused on reducing the cost structure of the company.
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In the U.S. it took a government-brokered bankruptcy for GM to get serious about attacking its bloated cost structure.
Tooling up these custom-made molds, which wear out after 100, 000 injections, is a big part of Omni's cost structure.
Surprising because Ford is in the red and GM is profitable, thanks to the General's far leaner cost structure.
As such, we remain focused on strengthening our balance sheet, increasing our operating efficiencies and improving our cost structure.
The allure lies in the cost structure: no contracts and lower price points.
It is also clear that the cost structure of education must change, that we need more bang for our buck.
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In order to revitalize its operations in the inhospitable market, Heinz is attacking the cost structure to stabilize its performance.
We have market-facing people in country, and we have a big back-office operation in India to optimize our cost structure.
Samsung expects to keep its frontrunner status in the global memory semiconductor industry with competitive products and differentiated cost structure.
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To slow the growth of tuition, we need reforms that attack the inefficient cost structure and low productivity in higher education.
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The result has been a bloated cost structure that drags down profits when revenues from the bank's volatile mortgage operation fall.
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