General Growth's overhead costs are 3.6% of revenue, compared with tonier operations like Rouse, at 4.8%.
That seemed counterintuitive, because it seems like the fewer employees onsite, the lower your overhead costs.
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They include overhead costs related to the split and higher interest and pension expenses.
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Bill Westrom is also going to sharpen his pencil to his firm's overhead costs.
The company also made efficiency improvements in its production processes, which generally leads to lower overhead costs.
Any gain in sales per hour of eyeballing would translate into more revenue, with only slightly higher overhead costs.
Thee-gang's overhead costs are a few PCs, cheap Macromedia software and phone bills.
The apparel retailers have come under immense pressure to reduce overhead costs as the industry faces high commodity costs.
Certainly entrepreneurship in the 2000s will be burdened, European-style, with higher overhead costs.
From 1995 to 1997 he ran its European power-tools business, bringing down high overhead costs by removing 50 vice presidents.
The breakfast menu, meanwhile, aids profit margins by letting the company allocate overhead costs across more revenue and operating hours.
It has significantly cut overhead costs and more easily hired employees drawn to the low cost of living in Idaho, he added.
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Besides the obvious overhead costs employees, delivery trucks, fuel the model is cheap.
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Webvan famously flamed out due to high overhead costs, among other issues.
Overhead costs keeping going up, and reimbursements keep going down, says Knaysi.
In baseball, the pressure is most acute with minor league clubs that face high overhead costs relative to ticket and sponsorship revenue.
Now, as it restores spending on engineering, its overhead costs will rise, but the new products are still a couple of years off.
Smaller-to-medium-sized entities will not be able to afford these overhead costs, and will exit the business, and the bigger firms will get bigger.
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When a company loses a dealer, its overhead costs stay the same and--at least in the short term--it loses a few hundred car sales.
The windfall you get out of those dividend dollars that you bought at 84.4 cents more than makes up for the fund's overhead costs.
In addition, other naval programs performed at the same shipyard such as submarine construction would have to absorb overhead costs transferred from the carrier program.
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Further, we know that the overhead costs of administrating Medicare are dramatically lower than what it costs a private insurance company to administer its programs.
First, traditional retailers may need to think about closing more stores in 2012 as the least-trafficked outlets fail to generate enough sales to cover fixed overhead costs.
The tax benefits, although much exaggerated by insurance salesmen, are sometimes enough to overcome the considerable overhead costs (salesmen's commissions, etc.) of passing on wealth in this fashion.
With high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, C4 plants are not as productive as C3 plants, which do not have the overhead costs of the carbon-dioxide enrichment system.
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In the process, though, it fractures the product life-cycle for systems built by those private companies, raises overhead costs on remaining work, and in general make the companies less competitive.
American Eagle Outfitters is considering shutting close to 100 stores in the next two years in response to pressures to reduce overhead costs and given the difficulty the retailer is having.
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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After researching the European market for the last few years, Woock and Sipher discovered (and patented) a clever and deceptively simple way to neutralize their messaging overhead costs: Keep texting volume symmetric.
The council said it had prioritised savings by reducing running costs in order to protect frontline services as far as possible, with 82% of the savings being made cutting management and overhead costs.
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