| He has said the company will have to speed up its cost-cutting programme as a result of the second massive recall. |
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| The cost-cutting measures include reducing administration costs and cutting drug budgets. |
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| It has no plans to suspend the granting of stock options as part of its cost-cutting programme. |
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| A cost-cutting exercise has resulted in two staff contracts not being renewed and a third is under review. |
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| There is procurement cost-cutting taking place and production efficiencies are being tackled. |
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| The only surprise generated by last week's announcement of cost-cutting is that it had taken so long. |
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| The company prompted controversy by offering employees unpaid leave as a way of cost-cutting. |
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| The companies are direct beneficiaries of the trend to outsourcing by cost-cutting multinationals. |
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| Sharp cost-cutting in the first quarter as well as a better product mix also helped. |
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| Thus, the pain of cost-cutting is not hitting workers as hard as in past business cycles. |
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| The finance ministry blames this estimated shortfall on a drop in taxes, but says its cost-cutting will work. |
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| That is because, thanks to aggressive cost-cutting, corporate earnings are climbing back up. |
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| It does seem that in such cost-cutting exercises that the public are not considered, and are always the losers. |
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| The carmaker said profits were given a boost because of ongoing cost-cutting in the company. |
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| Quality and service should not suffer in any way due to this cost-cutting exercise. |
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| It is believed that dramatic cost-cutting measures will be necessary if plant closures are to be avoided. |
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| The danger is not so much the hit to consumers but a new round of corporate caution and cost-cutting. |
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| A problem for would-be suitors would be finding further cost-cutting and synergistic benefits. |
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| Unsurprisingly, 31 per cent of survey respondents said that cost-cutting remains an important concern. |
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| With most of the high-impact cost-cutting options, we aren't contractually allowed to do this unilaterally. |
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| She admitted that cost-cutting was an ongoing part of the business. |
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| On 9 June 2004, the College decided to dismiss all these teachers for no other reason than cost-cutting. |
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| The improvement was due to work-force reductions and other cost-cutting measures. |
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| But the improvement in our margins is not due primarily to the cost-cutting programmes we have implemented with such success in recent years. |
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| Industrial accidents, many stemming from corporate cost-cutting exercises, claimed some 14,000 lives a year. |
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| Significant cost-cutting potential compared to singlelayer paving thanks to extensive use of bottom-layer concrete, which is less expensive. |
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| We had to tighten our belts considerably and adopt a cost-cutting plan that eventually saw us through. |
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| Moreover, monthly control by Sonepar Italia at the national level encourages us to always do out best to reach the cost-cutting objective. |
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| The restructuring and cost-cutting measures implemented have led to lower fixed costs and a deeper breakeven. |
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| The acceleration of cost-cutting actions in the fourth quarter shows the Group's responsiveness to rapid changes in market conditions. |
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| In Europe, all the leading carriers have announced dramatic cost-cutting exercises, making it a buyer's market for airlines seeking new aircraft. |
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| Consequently, the intense squeeze on profits has led to aggressive cost-cutting that is fueling a wave of lay-offs. |
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| The ferocious cost-cutting will inevitably have serious implications for airline safety. |
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| Borland will stay in California, so there won't be a repeat of the cost-cutting decampment of WP to Ottawa. |
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| In another cost-cutting move, many M4s were equipped with a radial engine originally designed for aircraft. |
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| The white chocolate is smooth, creamy and stiff with grains of proper Bourbon vanilla, not vanillin, the cost-cutting artificial flavouring. |
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| Sales and marketing staff are expected to bear the brunt of the cost-cutting measures. |
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| It has to make up the leeway elsewhere through its legendary cost-cutting programmes. |
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| Four years ago I and many of my generation were encouraged to take early retiral, on the grounds that it was a cost-cutting exercise. |
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| But critics have attacked the BBC for lavishing public money on non-programming activities at a time of massive cost-cutting in the organisation. |
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| Bosses embarked on a programme of cost-cutting to reduce fees charged to airlines and entice new carriers, especially no-frills operators. |
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| It is not the first time a cost-cutting exercise by the Royal Mail has lumbered Hampshire residents with a second-class service. |
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| The company has already said it will take a restructuring charge this year due to cost-cutting measures in its operations. |
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| It added that these international players have started initiating cost-cutting measures to improve their cost-structure. |
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| A company spokesman said no further cost-cutting measures were planned for its Irish operations. |
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| The bank said the cost-cutting move would help refocus and growth the company's retail business. |
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| We will have to make cost-cutting exercises on it but it will be beneficial to the squad and the football club as a whole. |
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| New kick-return specialist Brian Mitchell is highly motivated, having been shucked by the Eagles in their annual cost-cutting purge. |
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| He is concerned that Royal Mail intends to steamroller its cost-cutting plans in spite of all opposition. |
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| Certainly, there were deskilling and cost-cutting impulses present in virtually all industries engaged in flexible production. |
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| Unfortunately they closed it after 2 years and retrenched me as a cost-cutting exercise. |
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| This, along with numerous cost-cutting measures, permitted a significant improvement in results for the activity. |
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| Catalyst recovery is one of the most actively researched areas for cost-cutting in the chemical industry, as catalysts often contain rare and expensive metals. |
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| In this model, safety has given way to cost-cutting as a primary concern. |
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| The figures in the latest budget are incomplete and the Treasury Board refuses to give him the information he needs to assess the cost-cutting efforts a number of departments are being asked to make. |
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| The company said managerial cost-cutting in the stores would be re-invested in roles such as checkout operators and shelf stackers which directly affect customers. |
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| Waivers were also encouraged by states and the federal government who saw them, rightly, as a cost-cutting measure. |
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| After extreme cost-cutting during the recession, an upsurge in demand from emerging economies leads to healthy job creation in the U. S., not only in the near-term but through the second half of the forecast horizon as well. |
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| Pipelife succeeded in limiting the impact of this drop in demand on its results thanks to significant cost-cutting measures, including a decrease in headcount, and improvement in its product range through innovation. |
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| We have long said that the cyclical recovery currently underway at macro level has only been made possible by aggressive cost-cutting at the individual company level. |
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| The print press has sometimes also been victimized by similar cost-cutting strategies, often as a consequence of media mergers by larger conglomerates. |
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| They embarked upon cost-cutting programmes, scaled back investment and, in some sectors such as telecommunications, restructured their debt. |
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| Meanwhile, the cost-cutting benefits are unclear. |
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| In the second quarter, these better-than-expected earnings were largely the result of cost-cutting measures, while third-quarter earnings were also supported by revenue growth. |
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| He has the battle scars of dealing with cost-cutting and staff lay-offs. |
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| Performance dropped and the call for cost-cutting, rationalisations and laying off employees, came through. |
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| Businesses that have enacted cost-cutting measures recently may find themselves sitting on a nice nest egg. |
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| Armed with impressive detail, the PM papered over cracks and cost-cutting risks with aplomb. |
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| Why not suggest cost-cutting ideas yourself? |
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| It hasn't happened, and the excuse I hear most often now is that cost-cutting measures have resulted in the place being understaffed, understocked, and generally miserable. |
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| With the aim of combating global cost-cutting trends within the sector, the reskilling and upskilling of thousands of Scottish workers was at its core. |
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| The company said some of the cost-cutting moves involved layoffs. |
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| The honest truth is that the government made a cost-cutting measure. |
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| A ROW has broken out in Ceredigion over the council's decision to pay a consultancy company for advice on cost-cutting measures. |
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| As part of its cost-cutting plans, BT has put forward proposals to remove telephone kiosks from 25 areas of the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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| It can be wrapped up any way, that other programs and Health Canada will pick up the slack, all these types of things, but the truth is that it is cost-cutting measure. |
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| In the cut-throat world of tendering, all too often companies can be pushed into cost-cutting measures and I would not like to see safety measures being sacrificed. |
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| The force announced in November that just a handful of the forces 41 front desks will survive the latest cost-cutting exercise, aimed at saving PS3 million per year. |
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| The babycare firm, which slumped to a PS103 million loss in the year to March, closed 31 stores in the first six months as part of its cost-cutting plan. |
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| The governor has proposed a number of cost-cutting measures. |
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