Manufacturers teamed with retailers like Best Buy to lower distribution cost.
Apple offered a low-cost distribution channel and the ability to reach a broadened audience.
Why would a network voluntarily give up invaluable spectrum and distribution that could cost it hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising revenues?
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And often, to be successful, a new solution needs to cut through the old, high-cost distribution system directly to customers if it is to succeed.
It said it sees further potential to build on the solid performance of its Northern and German businesses, for instance with increasing online distribution and further cost control.
The chief of Kynikos Associates warned that the video game retailer is in a business being destroyed by digital distribution as the cost of transmitting and storing bits of information heads toward zero.
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Digital distribution results in cost-savings for producers who can skip retail, skip shipping costs, and forego manufacturing the actual discs, but those savings need to be passed on (at least to some degree) to consumers to offset the eventual end of used games.
Finally, microfinance institutions can tackle the cost of distribution for direct to farmer lending.
Partly, this reflects the falling cost of distribution, as digitisation has cut annual operating costs.
The network is designed to provide a highly reliable and cost effective distribution model for distributors and exhibitors alike.
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These advances have sharply reduced the cost of distribution, making it cheaper to get products into the marketplace fast.
That calls for more centralized distribution, where the cost benefits can spill over to the store-bound inventory that's sharing the facility.
The tricky part is to figure out what all this cheap, whizzy stuff will do to your cost and distribution model.
It launches in a few months and will put their municipal bond inventory online, through E-Trade and TD Waterhouse, giving Goldman national distribution at a small cost.
Alvarez is banking that fewer, more robust partnerships will yield economies of scale: As each distributor carries more product into stores, the overall per-unit cost of distribution will drop.
Publishers make very high gross margins on traditional textbooks, and since e-books radically reduce the cost of distribution and printing, one would expect prices to drop substantially for digital offerings.
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Each layer of distribution adds to the cost of goods thus eating into their already razor-thin margins, since all consumer goods sold in India have an MSRP which is the final price a customer is willing to pay.
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For example, a CEO may decide that the following goals are essential: Increasing products or pipeline, improving distribution channels, making cost structures flexible to cyclicality, accelerating quality improvement, and establishing market leadership in a given segment or geography.
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Local manufacturing and distribution should bring a big cost advantage over Fuji, and lots of goodwill from the Chinese government.
The cover price simply paid the cost of newsprint and distribution, no more.
"The multilayer distribution there really adds to the cost of getting products to market, " Mr. Cook told analysts last summer.
We improved the cost base, expanded distribution from 80, 000 outlets to over 133, 000 in six months, optimized marketing investments behind priority brands and ramped up innovations.
"Google's predatory distribution of Android at below-cost makes it difficult for other providers of operating systems to recoup investments in competing with Google's dominant mobile platform, " FairSearch said in a statement.
With regard to distribution or marketing expense, the cost to sell and design the plan is the same regardless of the number of participants as long as you are dealing with one decision maker.
It takes six times as long to obtain construction permits in Russia as in Sweden and, despite cheaper labour and land, the cost of building a distribution centre is a third more expensive than in London, according to McKinsey.
However now, with the fuel cells being so fuel efficient in small sizes, and their cost rapidly declining with volume manufacture, we seem to be coming to a tipping point where distributed fuel cell generation may be less expensive than conventional integrated generation, particularly when the cost of transmission and distribution is increasing so rapidly.
Up to now, those scale economies of fuel efficiency and of capital cost in these large generating units have been so great as to be able to absorb the additional cost of transmission and distribution and still be lower than any competing form of electrical generation (except of course where plentiful hydroelectric generation could be built).
Mobile computing, the falling cost of software creation and distribution and smart computing algorithms are already here.
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Local restrictions notwithstanding, GM doesn't want the additional cost of building a national distribution center until more people are comfortable with buying big-ticket items online.
Gunn likes low-cost global producers with efficient distribution systems.
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