This will result in a nasty bout of price-cutting, middle-man slaying and industry reputation tarnishing.
He wanted power plants and a wholesale trading operation to protect his investment from price-cutting regulators.
The most costly plants would be closed, inept managers pushed aside, price-cutting stopped, and so on.
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With unsold inventory piling up throughout the technology industry, price-cutting looks likely to spread.
In both the wired and wireless businesses Tronchetti has to contend with price-cutting mandates by regulators.
Cursed with slender profit margins and price-cutting competition from Wal-Mart, supermarkets have been anything but super for years.
At the very least, the reports will likely lead to heavy price-cutting that will cut into earnings going forward.
Sony has gone the price-cutting route with its latest offering, the PlayStation Vita.
In an industry already gripped by price-cutting and slumping demand, the proposed marriage increasingly looks like an act of desperation.
Yet the real fear is that today's furious price-cutting is not so much real liberalisation as the start of a stitch-up.
Antitrust regulators worry especially about the effects on competition and innovation when it is a maverick, like the price-cutting TNT, that is being eliminated.
The result was a capacity glut, ferocious competition and frantic price-cutting.
Some elite schools--Columbia, Emory, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford--are pretty circumspect about price-cutting.
Price-cutting competition in telecoms will come more from new providers such as call-back services, which allow callers in Japan to take advantage of cheaper rates elsewhere.
Airline seats are a perishable commodity an empty seat becomes a worthless asset once the plane takes off and this fact of aviation life has sometimes led to ruinous price-cutting.
But oversupply is not the only reason for the price-cutting.
With the insurance business suffering through one of its periodic price-cutting crusades, revenue also fell 31%, representing the first such drop for the Stamford, Conn. firm in two years.
But HP, a company synonymous with the birth of Silicon Valley, and Compaq Computer, a Houston-based firm which once pioneered PC price-cutting, may yet have to restructure their deal or abandon it entirely.
What is particularly important to him is that the music industry has made it clear to him that it values HMV - as an alternative to price-cutting online retailers and supermarkets that offer very limited choice.
Ruthless price-cutting at supermarkets means consumers have grown accustomed to eating too much. (In the late 19th century, Europeans already thought Americans ate three or four times more than was necessary.) The most damaging consequence is that by 2000 31% of American adults were obese, with another 16% defined as overweight.
According to the Wall Street Journal, India is now looking to set price-caps for 348 medicines, cutting across all therapeutic areas and not just cancer.
Based on revised DCF analysis, we are cutting our 12-month target price.
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But Goldcorp has no plans to react to the steep gold price drop in mid-April by immediately applying cost-cutting measures.
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Even before it had time to implement its price cutting strategy, its rivals launched a pre-emptive series of price promotions of their own.
Historically, antitrust enforcers tried to shield competitors from market-dominant companies that could crush them through price cutting, intimidation of suppliers, or other dubious tactics.
Late last week, the Brisbane-based company was reportedly considering cutting the price of its IPO by up to 30% amid weakening equity markets and criticism over its corporate structure, but Resourcehouse denied those claims.
The biggest selling home PC supplier in the U.S. last year, Packard Bell is said to be facing cash-flow problems as a result of too aggressive price cutting.
Splitting that line into high- and low- end products, rather than simply cutting the price of older models creates new risks, even as it reduces the risk Apple runs by building such an enormous business around a single product.
Some executives question whether it will be possible to build a market beyond a few thousand users. (Prima says it plans to install its systems in 250, 000 homes within five years.) Others say the high price would create an exclusive, super-premium niche market without cutting into existing sources of revenue.
Still, we haven't seen sustained sales of a cutting-edge Nexus phone at a low-end price, and it may be harder to say that LTE and extra storage are worth more on an Optimus G or its immediate competition.
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