It should also have a strong historical track record in terms of growth and profitability. |
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The global slowdown and sterling's continued strength against the euro have reduced sales volumes and profitability. |
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The range has been enlarged to increase commercial customer product offerings, increase unit sales and raise profitability. |
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He agrees that there are many factors that affect the profitability of sheep farming. |
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The company has been hovering around profitability for a couple of quarters, and the cuts should give it an extra nudge toward the black. |
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But the squeeze on profitability continues, as does the pressure on services. |
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We are encouraging our companies to cut their burn rate and show a faster path to profitability. |
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Government policy that maximises profitability of businesses needs to be devised. |
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The companies say farmers are happy with the performance and profitability of the crops. |
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Feeding cull cows a feedlot diet for a period of time before selling may improve quality of animals and overall profitability. |
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The bulk of UK plc's profitability is now generated by the financial services sector. |
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The profitability of the trade has given rise to speculation that money from wildlife is financing terrorist activities. |
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Improving profitability at Wealth Management USA, mostly the old PaineWebber brokerage business, has been a struggle. |
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The carrier's real issue is that, in the face of unstoppable competition, its currently enjoyed levels of profitability are unsustainable. |
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That means we will enjoy three times the profitability of traditional bricks and mortar grocers. |
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He's always willing to try something new to expand our business and profitability. |
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Hedging or pre-empting foreign currency exposure is an ideal way to protect profitability. |
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Marketing decisions are critical to profitability due to the variability of prices monthly, annually, and cyclically. |
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Along with the pressure for profitability, consolidation looms in the crowded market space. |
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To increase profitability and attract new customers, service providers have focused typically on expanding their network footprints. |
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But when consumer uncertainty is coupled with doubts about corporate profitability there is precious little consolation. |
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Foreign prices continue to fall, reducing the product's profitability still further. |
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The company hopes to return to profitability in the fourth quarter of the current fiscal year. |
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We will also try to boost operational efficiency to offset a possible decline in our profitability. |
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Rather than pursuing the holy grail of million-selling titles, the company is focused on achieving annual profitability. |
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This work has helped to increase the efficiency and profitability of Yukon placer mines in spite of rising production costs and low gold prices. |
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New Zealand pipfruit growers expect a small improvement in profitability this year thanks to a lift in prices. |
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Along with other car makers, they've been hit by a weak market in Europe for new cars, depressing prices and profitability. |
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Even fans of its stock don't think the acquisition will improve the insurer's profitability any time soon. |
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Investors typically want to put their money into a business that has the potential for huge profitability. |
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Last year's boom has been reflected in the profitability reported by investment banks and the take-home pay of the corporate rainmakers. |
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In the case of the stockmarket, the key to achieving good capital growth is profitability. |
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While demand may pick up as the threat of recession recedes, there are doubts that corporate profitability can soar ahead. |
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However, with industry leadership assured and having just returned to profitability, the recommencement of payouts should start next year. |
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Many academics will talk about productivity and value, and profitability, but these issues are red herrings. |
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Instead of returning to profitability, as both companies expected this year, red ink keeps flowing. |
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Moreover, local concentration where mergers do occur does not bring higher profitability. |
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While letter delivery in the UK is a lucrative market, the profitability of door-to-door services is not uniform throughout the country. |
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It was limited in its size, and the size of the arena is the key to its profitability and commercialism. |
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Having persistently higher cash prices than one's neighbors did not significantly impact profitability. |
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The combined result is increased profitability, regardless of whether the company makes aspirin or amplifiers. |
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The end result is a more scalable solution that can deliver rapid payback and greater carrier profitability. |
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A lifecycle profitability tool is provided to determine the lifecycle profitability of a leasable asset. |
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The first effect of the dollar revaluation was to put an abrupt end to the decade-long recovery of US profitability. |
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We have specific policy proposals that would return profitability to the family farm sector of agriculture. |
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I concluded that the economy is not designed to sustain the profitability of agriculture. |
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This enables telecoms to arbitrage international cost differences to boost profitability. |
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The profitability or palpability of beetles and bugs may be greater than that of moths. |
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Only a handful of companies will ever manage to bring their products to the marketplace and achieve profitability. |
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I offer two pieces of evidence that show profitability as a key driver of investment outlays. |
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While the ostensible motivation will be to improve the security of the Internet, the real objective will be to increase corporate profitability. |
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The government plans to maintain its control long enough to restore its profitability then sell it off to big business. |
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In order to provide profitability, we had to cut into rising fixed costs somehow. |
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In order to insure profitability, it is a good idea to determine the profit you need from this enterprise. |
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We will ensure that farmers have a strong safety net and can achieve profitability in the marketplace. |
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Only 15 percent of employees felt that the price of gas would affect company profitability. |
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Corporate profitability and the profit share in the economy remain relatively strong. |
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Two important influences on profitability are likely to be market share and stage in the product life cycle. |
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When Congress and the FDA dreamed up the orphan drug bill they didn't consider limiting profitability. |
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The change is not in profitability, the change is in the mutual long-term strategic interests of the United States and Pakistan. |
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Switzerland's elimination of battery cages increased the Swiss egg industry's profitability and its acceptability to consumers. |
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They reduce soil erosion, improve soil tilth, help reduce pesticide use, and enhance agricultural profitability. |
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Nine months later, they are nearing profitability and have substantial cash reserves to fund growth. |
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Higher jet fuel prices are threatening to erode the profitability of these airlines. |
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He added that the independent retail sector must continually invest in training and recognise areas of underperformance to increase profitability and business development. |
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The automaker's stunning rebound into profitability seemed to shock even those who made it happen. |
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Since the bailout, GM has posted 15 consecutive quarters of profitability, and it has a very solid balance sheet. |
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But by 1988, Dairylea had sold its product lines and the last of its milk plants, and refocused its resources on enhancing the overall profitability of its membership. |
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Management of the fishery is intertwined with the profitability of the fishing industry and politics of power. |
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The bank is more concerned with liquidity than profitability, so that its central bank clients can withdraw funds without publicity at a moment's notice. |
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That's probably overstated, but the exploits of the overseas based domestic assemblers do have an excellent track record with product, price, productivity and profitability. |
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At the slightest hint of profitability, carriers begin bulking up and adding routes, which quickly undercuts profits and exacerbates huge losses when travel drops off. |
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Morrison Bowmore, the distiller, is cheering a sharp rise in profitability after shifting its focus from low-margin blended whisky to single malts. |
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The backwash from the affair has spooked investors, concerned that more US corporations may have used flattering accounting methods to overstate their historic profitability. |
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I also put a scorecard in place so that we could understand how we were doing on our dual goals of profitability and integrity to the law and clients. |
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When we visited last year, it was a middle-sized player aspiring to improve sales and profitability in a sector dominated by a few large rivals that were more profitable. |
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And diversity is playing an ever increasing role in maintaining profitability. |
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Such a philosophical misalignment can lead to poor staff relations, high turnover, low productivity and a culture riddled with growth and profitability challenges. |
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Less tax burden means greater profitability, which leads inevitably to growth, more jobs, and trickle-down benefits for everybody in the province. |
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We expect a significant uplift in profitability from 2005 onwards. |
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Its populism, not its profitability, was the network's primary purpose. |
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How does the Fed's profitability compare to America's other gigantic businesses? |
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The company has lost money for the last several years, though it is getting closer to profitability. |
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Amazon's new tablet may have a price hike, but that won't help its profitability says CEO Jeff Bezos. |
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As the U.S. economy recovered, and as the global economy continued to grow, Citi returned to profitability. |
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The projections should clearly identify the funding requirement, your cash burn rate, profitability details and the return to the equity investor or other finance provider. |
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Share buy-backs mean that with less stock outstanding, earnings per share increase, even though the underlying profitability of the company has not. |
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An economic analysis was conducted to determine the cost of the feeding programs and their effect on profitability of the stocker cattle enterprise. |
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At the same time, the company sees this sector of its business as a cash cow with potentially far higher growth and profitability than its microprocessor business. |
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Fuel prices that surged to records have also eroded profitability. |
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This is similar to when media conglomerates sell off ownership of some of their subsidiaries because conglomeration loses profitability at a certain point. |
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They are ensuring their profitability, not insuring us against the collective risk we all face from unknowable health disasters, minor to major to life-ending. |
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The ability to borrow greatly enhances the profitability of investments. |
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We're trying to get farmers to develop a plan to improve profitability. |
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I think we have a shot at achieving profitability during this year. |
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Production efficiency is critical due to its effect on profitability. |
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Any delays in getting the first of their products to markets will slow down the rate of sales, further delaying its uptake and eventual profitability. |
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This has done no end of good for the studio's profitability. |
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So the effect of rent is to equalize the profitability of all bare sites, reducing profit margins to those obtainable on marginal sites, i.e. sites with zero rental value. |
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A better financial position in April to June this year will be achieved through growing profitability of sales, increased exports and reduced costs, according to the report. |
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In a further 1855 analysis, Thomson stressed the impact that the design of the cable would have on its profitability. |
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Chairman David Grigson said the group had continued to focus on the profitability of its core print assets while investing for growth. |
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By 1968 the railways had not been restored to profitability and Beeching's approach appeared to many to have failed. |
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When executives are under pressure to improve their companies' profitability, some of them decide to downsize to reduce costs. |
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Contributions depend on the profitability of the company and annual bonuses are divvied out to staff. |
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For electric companies to increase profitability and lower rates, it was necessary to increase the load factor. |
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The rating reflects American Stores' improving profitability and its successful deleveraging from the 1988 acquisition of Lucky Stores Inc. |
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The increase in the company's profitability was caused by very high steel prices and strong sales volumes. |
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The delicate balance between current and future profitability invariably seems to be resolved with an inclination toward the present. |
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Babbage took the unpopular line, from the publishers' perspective, of exposing the trade's profitability. |
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Sir John King, later Lord King, was appointed chairman, charged with bringing the airline back into profitability. |
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As the influence and profitability of CRAs expanded, so did scrutiny and concern about their performance and alleged illegal practices. |
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In any case, most organisations have indicated poor outcomes on profitability so far from cost cutting measures. |
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So, why let your sub-optimal pricers continue to handicap your firm's profitability with bad pricing? |
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Customer profitability analysis can ensure that those efforts deliver positive return on investment. |
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The Science of Profitability is a new blog published by Accunomics, the global management consultancy focused on profitability optimization. |
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First, you should be looking at the profitability of each product line by customer. |
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Since the chocolates are mainly an impulse purchase, and when placed next to register, the forecast for profitability is high. |
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Since the 1990s declining profitability of agriculture and tourism has challenged the governments of the islands. |
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On the one hand, economic indicators, including firm profitability, productivity and growth, project positive microeconomic results. |
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Asymptotic prey profitability drives star-nosed moles to the foraging speed limit. |
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Baker Products continues to find new ways to improve your operation and your profitability, by offering the new Baker Automated Board Stacker. |
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Closing these non-performing cafeterias was a required step to improve cash flow and return the Company to profitability. |
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We were in the process of expanding our capacity at TAFE and the low prices severely affected our profitability. |
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The decline in the profitability of old trade routes could also have played a role. |
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Sterling's belly-flop over the past few months has left many exporters re-evaluating the profitability of supplying the UK market. |
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While traditional foods are losing profitability in an era of rock-bottom pricing, the popularity of organic foods is on the rise. |
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Basel II is important to any business whose profitability is linked to cost of funds provided by banks. |
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However, the so-called fiscal cliff could curse profitability for credit unions in the Land of Enchantment. |
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The more competitive the industry, the greater the improvement in output, profitability, and efficiency. |
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Schiller will be tasked with overall strategy, growth and profitability of ADL China. |
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With no unpledged assets and low profitability, the business could get no further financing. |
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Initially, average real wages remained low, lower even than in 1938, until the early 1950s, while profitability was unusually high. |
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The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products. |
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Other than parasites and disease, predation is a threat to sheep and the profitability of sheep raising. |
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Reducing the parasite burdens of livestock results in increased productivity and profitability. |
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However, he says that by the time of its abolition in 1833 it had lost its profitability and it was in Britain's economic interest to ban it. |
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It is also possible that a decline in the profitability of old trade routes drove the Vikings to seek out new, more profitable ones. |
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This sales shortfall has resulted in heavy price discounting and underutilization of our manufacturing capacity, which are adversely affecting our profitability. |
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Rating agencies also grew in size and profitability as the number of issuers accessing the debt markets grew exponentially, both in the United States and abroad. |
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In other words, how much local media revenue is being underreported to both limit club's exposure to revenue sharing and boost the profitability of their RSN investment? |
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By this time, the Portuguese Empire had already lost its interest on the spice trade sea route due to the decreasing profitability of that business. |
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The profitability of Chinese city commercial banks remained stable. |
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Woodies owns unlimited rights and usage to Kendall's photos and expects sales and corporate profitability to skyrocket as a result of the campaign. |
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Market power and profitability can mute or heighten inequality. |
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One of the principal reasons for low profitability in CPA firms is that owners pay too much attention to profit margin and not enough to profitability. |
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Leveraging these systems, BIoffice centralizes information assets and enables users to transform them into knowledge to drive increased sales and profitability. |
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To ensure profitability, the owners of the ships divided their hulls into holds with little headroom, so they could transport as many slaves as possible. |
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Distribution via steam trains to rapidly growing concentrations of urban populations helped ensure the profitability of the paper and its growing influence. |
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Mineral exploration and estimation of reserve through various prospecting methods are done to determine the method and type of mining in addition to profitability condition. |
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If the profitability of service lines varies, providers will have a financial incentive to invest in profitable service lines to the detriment of unprofitable service lines. |
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One strategy to keep prices high and to maintain profitability was for producers of the same good to collude with each other and form associations, also known as cartels. |
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Cracking E-Fraud is designed to provide immediate, practical information to help security professionals safeguard their intellectual property, profitability, and reputation. |
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