After losing money, it cut its break-even point from two-thirds of capacity utilisation to one-third.
Amazon was undercutting its own break-even point to gain traction in a new market.
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The company's break-even point for capacity utilization is one of the best in the industry worldwide.
"We're not profitable, and we aren't at the break-even point yet, " says Miller.
He says Dana has lowered its break-even point and changed its product mix to eke out profits even in a downturn.
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Clinton's campaign is holding its own but barely hit the break-even point.
Last week, property, infrastructure and communications flagship company Wharf Holdings put back the break-even point by a year, to the end of 1997.
It remains a rocky road ahead, but just maybe the Royal Bank can now move on towards the taxpayer's break-even point, just above 500p.
Urban planners say savings from lower energy bills and other operational efficiencies can more than cover the added expenses, but the break-even point can be years out.
The break-even point for most child care centers is around 65% to 70%, estimates Mark L. Rosenberg, treasurer of the National Child Care Association--but that's assuming your center is large enough to generate economies of scale.
Be the general and make sure there is a clear authority in the beachhead phase with full rights and responsibility to exploit opportunities as they arise and to guide the business through to the break-even point.
When I talked to Krupp a day after the panel he said one of the big challenges was just measuring methane emissions from fracking and determining the break-even point where any fugitive emissions would not exceed the carbon savings from replacing coal.
Meanwhile, research into fusion power (in which energy is generated by fusing hydrogen atoms together at very high temperatures) has left behind a different kind of debris: a trail of experimental reactors, none of which has yet reached the break-even point where the amount of energy that comes out exceeds the amount put in.
Fourth seed Tomas Berdych earned a meeting against Frenchman Richard Gasquet after a more comfortable victory -- winning 6-1, 6-1 as the Czech failed to allow Sam Querrey even one break point.
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