Technopak is advising groups of small shopkeepers in various places on how to get together and gain at least some advantage of scale in purchasing and marketing.
While ArcelorMittal definitely holds the advantage in economies of scale, we do believe that U.S. Steel has an opportunity to steadily lift its profit margins over the coming years.
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Starting in the late 1990s, dentists began banding together under DSOs, taking advantage of economies of scale in order to cut overhead costs and provide quality service at much lower prices.
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In 2001, Hewlett-Packard made the first strategic mistake, the purchase of Compaq Computer that supposed to provide the company with the scale advantage in the PC market to compete effectively against Dell Computer (NASDAQ:DELL), IBM, and all sorts of emerging Asian competitors.
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Large companies have the overwhelming advantage of being able to turn on scale for any product they believe in whereas users have the advantage of knowing what works for them.
America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.
The answer is that you have to have a lot of teams locally, not one-size-fits-all, with people who live and work in those countries taking advantage of our global scale that is really the art.
Economies of scale in banking are not an advantage in fund management.
Not on the scale seen in 2006, admittedly, but enough to take advantage of rising markets.
However, the SDC report concluded that it did not "consider that a large-scale tidal lagoon development in the Severn estuary would offer any environmental or economic advantage over a tidal barrage".
Many of the large-scale foreign investors in Cyprus are Russian - and in many cases they have taken advantage of the island's status as an offshore tax haven.
Bernd Kosch, green IT advisor, Fujitsu Technology Solutions: Among the various green benefits of the cloud computing paradigm, there is one which is exceptionally striking: cloud computing enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to take full advantage of very large scale data centre technology, including the latest, most energy-efficient hardware provided in the shortest refresh cycles and leading facility-related infrastructure with advanced power utilisation effectiveness.
In an industry in which economies of scale have been a big factor, size should give the bigger firm an advantage.
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