While selling new cars is a low-margin business, he adds, dealers' profitability will shoot up as those on the road age, boosting demand for higher-margin service and repair work.

瑙曼补充称，尽管销售新车的利润率较低，但随着上路汽车日渐老化，对利润率较高的服务及维修工作的需求将得到提升，经销商的盈利能力也会激增。

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Nevil Gibson, the editor of New Zealand’s National Business Review, sees his latest moves as a logical progression from paper up the value chain into the higher-margin world of food packaging.

新西兰国家商业评论的编辑内维尔•吉布森（Nevil Gibson）将他最近的动作理解为符合逻辑的进程，从造纸上溯到价值链中高收益的食品包装产业。

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Due to recession, profit margin of the corporations gets lowered and as a result they stop hiring new blood for their business.

由于经济衰退，公司的利润率降低了，因此他们停止为企业雇佣新员工。

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"A 5% margin on the business is the sort of margin we require" to make investments in new sources of energy, he added.

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These high-margin services are breathing new life into the business, as well as helping push the development of new cutting-edge services.

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But at least for privately held companies involved in computer systems design and related services, business remains strong, according to new sales and profit margin data from Sageworks Inc.

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