Chinese households are rapidly warming to the idea of borrowing money to buy a car, as automakers push financing deals to boost sales and margins.
Rising labour costs and increases in commercial rents are putting pressure on margins and while some Chinese retailers have addressed this by pursuing a 24-hour, micro-store strategy, this is difficult for Western retailers to replicate.
What leaves will be pretty much on the margins.
Browsers often display websites in a fashionable column as well, leaving wide, empty margins.
) The results have margins of error of plus or minus 1.
Brushing your teeth too hard Poor tooth brushing techniques can harm your teeth - if you really scrub your teeth too hard, you will wear the sides of your teeth down, leaving V-shaped defects near the gum margins.
While this bold strategy has the potential to significantly increase margins and position Amazon as Chinese businesses' gateway to the West, a considered and phased implementation is essential if the firm is to gain share of the cross-border e-commerce market from industry leader Alibaba.
" He stuck to the group's full-year targets — of growth in sales and profits and an improvement in operating profit margins of 0.
The surge led China's largest commodity trading venues — the Shanghai Futures Exchange, Dalian Commodity Exchange and Zhengzhou Commodities Exchange — to curb activity by lifting transaction costs, margins and daily trading limits on some contracts.
Too much VC money has lately been invested in start-up companies with daft ideas, inflating some private market valuations beyond any meaningful measure and eroding margins for sounder businesses.
Mark key thoughts in the margins If the book is yours, mark key thoughts in the margins or slap one little sticky tab on the page with a short note.
Chinese planners are now worried that mills and factories built with subsidies and bank loans are destroying margins and making it more difficult to tackle a pile of debt that is weighing on economic performance.
Apparently, it is increasingly difficult for small businesses to succeed in the present complex economic structure based, as it is, on small profit margins and tremendous sales volume.
He added: "The stock market has been ignoring the clear evidence of deteriorating margins and profitability, a form of deception encouraged by the share buybacks.
" While such socially conscious work is often done in the margins of a firm, Mr.
Neil Robinson Sealy's top snooze analyst said: 'While the margins are small the research certainlyhighlights an interesting trend - could it be possible that the left side of bed is the "right" side?
If you ask bankers why they are moving into P2P lending, some will point to the high returns they hope to earn (since the average loan commands an interest rate of around 13 per cent, margins are high).
"This isn't to suggest that Apple's success with the iPhone won't continue, and IDC believes its efforts to maintain significantly higher margins compared to its competitors are much more valuable than chasing share," the IDC report said.
And with separated financials, the market can finally see what are already reputed to be fearsome margins.
But many record executives, particularly at small labels where margins are thin, had described a frightening scenario in which income from important new albums that came out during the free period would not only lose out on crucial download income, but also get nothing from Apple's new streaming feature.
