He expects 2012 EPS estimate reductions as record capital spending affects both unit pricing and cost of goods sold.
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On the pricing side, too few companies use marginal cost pricing.
Its business model will assure long-term consistent low cost pricing to content providers and exhibitors across the industry.
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More and more younger workers are no longer willing to work for low wages in blue collar positions, and the high costs of real estate are pricing low-cost manufacturing out of China.
Several coal operators face insolvency within 2 years if pricing remains below their cost of production.
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Savvy station owners are turning to an array of survival tactics, from crafty pricing strategies to extraordinary cost-cutting efforts.
The company highlighted the positive aspects of pricing actions and product cost reduction, but both of these were more than offset by higher costs for materials and labor.
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Thanks to concerns about cost, pricing formulas and doubts about long-term commitments from Europe in light of competing projects coming from the Eastern Mediterranean, the Galsi has found itself pushed back again and again.
Already, early studies of potential revenues from road pricing confirm what traditional cost-benefit analysis has long shown: that the gains from many road schemes (unlike those from many rail schemes) far outweigh their costs.
Brilliantly managed by Chairman and Chief Executive Lorenzo Zambrano, 54, its success stems from several interrelated factors: acquisitions, economies of scale, pricing power, ruthless cost-cutting -- all of which have been made possible by large and intelligent investment in communications technology.
Paying home care workers more money would have clear social benefits, but if it comes at the cost of pricing vulnerable seniors out of the home care market or reducing the earning potential of caregivers, then we need to rethink our laws.
Qualcomm's not saying--but because notebook vendors are paid for each activation, which is sometimes more than they make on the notebook, you have to believe they might be willing to be creative in their pricing, and the cost of a module, which I suspect will be higher to start, will not be a significant a factor.
Without knowledge of the future, I can reduce my pricing risk by dollar-cost averaging my investment.
With Wii U, we have taken a rather resolute stance in pricing it below its manufacturing cost, so we are not planning to perform a markdown.
Although Stribild costs 33 percent more than the list price for Atripla, RW Baird analyst Thomas Russo called the pricing appropriate, noting the cost is similar to other, less convenient, multi-tablet HIV regimens.
By itself, such cost-plus pricing can be a profitable strategy in an inflationary time if consumers have accepted the idea that prices are rising in a given category, such as baked goods, Lodish says.
Objective Analysis continues to call for depressed pricing through the first half of 2013, but the industry has moved from its cyclical phase of price collapse to a phase of cost-based pricing, which could result in continuing mild month-to-month growth for the interim.
On one side of the equation is the fact that big cable companies ( Time Warner Cable, Comcast, etc.) have long been ripping off consumers by pricing their services far above cost something they can easily do because they face so little competition.
For cost efficiency, best pricing to customers and freshest product delivery, they manage to create a scenario where products rarely stay in the warehouse for more than a week.
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This week, the cost of that extreme pricing was called into question when a building in Bangladesh collapsed that housed a manufacturer of clothing for Joe Fresh, in what is certainly the worst disaster in the history of the garment industry.
However, GA (and I suspect other states as well) allow super provider systems to develop which then lock down the delivery systems and effectively lock payors out for perceived wrongs or for extortion pricing which also drive up the cost of care for everyone in that community.
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Right now, generic companies are competing primarily on cost, yet one can imagine that by bundling the appropriate companion technologies to their products (e.g. technologies that improve and document adherence), they might conceivably be in a position to make more aggressive efficacy claims, to demonstrate to stakeholders that they are delivering greater value, and ultimately command somewhat higher pricing, yet still below the cost of new, branded products.
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Its adjusted earnings beat Wall Street expectations, as cost cuts helped offset tough pricing competition during the quarter.
Moreover, CMS chooses as the final price the median among the winning bids, instead of marginal cost, which would drive pricing in a competitive market.
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"We do not envision a realistic scenario in which crystalline silicon modules would be able to achieve cost levels that enable competitive pricing, " he said in a recent call with investors.
Among other cities that have recently experimented with new parking technologies, some, including San Francisco, have introduced dynamic pricing systems that raise and lower the cost of a space in order to control the supply of available on-street spaces.
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The combined Lucent-Unisys application will be available in March 1999, with pricing based on a per-seat developer cost.
What will remain unknown until retailers report their financial year end results is whether the aggressive pricing and free shipping offers came at the cost of lower margins.
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Regaining its pricing freedom is a huge, if partial, cost-free win for Amazon.
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One big assumption (here in the U.S.) is that opaque pricing itself is the primary culprit of our healthcare cost crisis.
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