Consumers often struggle to realise, for example, that a 50% increase in quantity is the same as a 33% discount in price.
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"My first priorities are to regain the respect of our shareholders by eliminating the discount in our share price and to find the very best leader to be our future chief executive, " he added.
In America, the effect of some states' hikes in tobacco taxes is being neutralised by a price war, in which smaller, discount brands are undercutting the big names.
Court records say it was often difficult for trucking companies to track how much money they were entitled to in Pilot rebates and discounts because there were so many variables in the company's diesel price discount program.
Off-price and discount retailers had a good year in 1997 and should continue to do well in 1998.
In a 2011 survey by the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, 71% of tax-qualified plans offered a 15% discount off the stock price, down from 79% in 2007.
Others in the know also discount the effect of former MP Adam Price' transatlantic interventions on her behalf.
Under the arrangement, Lupron producer TAPPharmaceutical Products Inc. sold urologists the drug at a steep discount, while the urologists in turn billed Medicare for the full price.
The company's shares trade in lockstep with the price of oil and at a discount to more well-rounded (but less profitable) competitors Jacobs Engineering and Fluor.
According to Reuters, Goods takes on inventory risk getting a discount for buying products in bulk and selling them to consumers at a higher price.
Price sensitive shoppers at its discount stores and supercenters and urban dwellers in need of well-priced necessities close to home?
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The BP deal guarantees Sempra gas at a discount to the price on the U.S.-Mexico border, locking in a nice spread.
One solution therefore lies in collaboration between public sector bodies within states to identify spend commonality and understand price and discount potential.
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Even after their tumble, the aggregate price-earnings ratio is in line with developed markets, rather than at the discount that has been the historical norm.
Ailouros was granted a three-month window in which to buy the shares at an 8% discount to the seven-day-average trading price, or a floor price set by Research Frontiers.
Dr. Pai said he and the Clinton group canvassed the Indian laboratory industry, convincing 27 of the 400 laboratories in the country to agree to a price ceiling on the diagnostics they purchased at the steep discount.
The 2, 700 dealers in Costco's network agree to sell at a discount although Costco doesn't tell customers the price before they go to a showroom.
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