Competition and low profit margins forced them to get creative, so they added fresh skuma (kale) to their offerings.
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And some businesses with low profit margins and limited flexibility on pricing may not be appropriate for an RBF loan.
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Mr Frost is a liquidator and says he sees the challenges facing licensed venues already struggling with high rents and low profit margins.
Sinopec, one of China's largest state-controlled firms, is mostly a refiner, but that business is tough in China because the government keeps consumer fuel prices low, pressuring profit margins.
She said that some may survive, thanks to last-minute Christmas shopping, but that others would be hit by the quarterly rent day, which falls on Christmas Day, as well as fierce competition and pressure to keep profit margins low.
At the same time, Apple pushes its suppliers to manufacture huge volumes with little notice at very low costs and razor-thin profit margins.
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Henry Blodget of Business Insider wrote that Facebook would face stiff competition in the hardware business, an area where it has no experience and where profit margins are historically low.
Several readers assert that Apple will simply use low end components and preserve its high profit margins.
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In America, for example, earnings have been crushed by tougher regulations and low interest rates, which usually narrow profit margins.
Yet they face tough competition and must rely on cost cutting and a steady stream of new models to maintain profit margins that are already low.
And for the 1.5 million cocoa farmers in Ghana, each with only a few acres, profit margins are still too low to encourage more investment in fertilizers, pesticides and higher-yielding trees.
Considering continuation of low employment costs and minimal net interest expense profit margins pre-and-after tax hang in.
However, profit margins in China have been low as a large number of brewers has resulted in lower sale prices.
Fitch said Nokia needs to stabilize revenues and be capable of generating low-single digit non-IFRS operating profit margins and positive pre-dividend free cash flow, if it is to affirm the current rating.
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To maintain its technological edge and high profit margins, however, it must balance low-cost manufacturing abroad with the high-tech precision it achieves in Japan.
It has observed an inverse link between profit margins and personal savings, which are very low in America.
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Even without guarantees, public-sector banks will remain less profit-oriented, and thus likelier to accept low margins, than private-sector competitors.
Weaker-than-expected off-peak season demand and a global supply crunch of HDDs coupled with low demand for PC DRAM chips and the oversupply of mobile DRAM impacted profit margins, in which the memory portion saw its revenue slip to 4.89 trillion won.
According to the complaint, the five publishers and Apple were unhappy that competition among e-book sellers had reduced e-book prices and the retail profit margins of the book sellers to levels they thought were too low.
Time will tell what margins the competitors will make, but I suspect their tablets will be a low profit business for a while.
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Although subscription pricing and profit margins are both higher in the TV and Internet segments, the subscriber base is very low compared to the mobile market, which results in lower gross profits.
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