So Ford has decided it needs to increase profit margins on its passenger car business.
At the same time, significant cost overruns on U.K.-based projects pressured profit margins further.
If labor costs increase faster than productivity and sales, then profit margins will be squeezed.
More importantly, Burns and TPG helped clean up Chobani's operational mess, returning its profit margins to the black.
Mr. Pope restructured Smithfield to concentrate more on packaged-meats products that carry higher profit margins.
They sported high valuations on top of very high earnings, with profit margins at multi-decade highs.
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The problem today is that most of the big blue chips report record profit margins.
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Actually, operating profit margins rise almost everywhere in the face of flat to declining revenues.
Even so, though mining profits are down because of lower commodity prices, profit margins remain high.
The payoff for this coherence: up to 22% higher profit margins, according to our research.
Retail spending increased by 13% but profit margins at many retailers last year were under pressure.
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When it comes to corporate profit margins fattened on federal revenue, austerity remains a rumor.
Complexity erodes profit margins by gradually increasing costs and slowing down day to day business efficiency.
Local customers, by comparison, end up paying more per mile, thereby fattening profit margins.
Middleware software profit margins increased from less under 30% in 2005 to over 40% in 2010.
If they are lucky, they eke out gross profit margins between 20% and 30%.
As noted above, SNX refuses to take on business that would hurt profit margins.
That is, the profit margins between selling in those different locations will tend to be equalized.
The recurring royalty revenues would certainly help Apple increase its iPad gross profit margins.
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More worrisome, Hyundai's profit margins are getting squeezed by a rising won and rising materials costs.
But Kingfisher shares fell after the company admitted profit margins would continue to come under pressure.
It managed to increase its underlying profit margins, but only thanks to cost cuts.
Clearly, all three major poultry producers have struggled to sustain their profit margins.
The company wants to boost net profit margins, which sunk to 4.8% over the latest 12-months.
This view is predicated on the assumption that profit margins will recover in the medium term.
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The key to long- term success in any cyclical industry is superior profit margins.
The company has seen steady growth in its profit margins over the past few years.
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Profit margins for single-song sales aren't nearly as good as the margins for album sales.
Few businesses are flexible and scalable enough to boost profit margins when revenues decline.
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If the profit margins aren't high enough, a price raise could be enacted with little resistance.
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