Driving the consolidation push is an effort by both companies to cut costs as tariffs on imports from China could eat into their margins or force them to raise prices for consumers against a backdrop of increasing competition from a number of different vendors.
Jamie's Italian increased sales by 10% to £101.8m in the year to January 2014, although profits dipped by 22% to £5.6m during those 12 months against a "backdrop of increased competition, heavy discounting by high street brands and continued strain on consumer spending".
The security lapses come against the backdrop of a potentially vigorous pending competition for the contract to manage the lab.
The fact that commercial radio continues to grow listeners and gain market share against the backdrop of relentless competition for listeners' time is a reflection of the sector's ongoing momentum".
The other tales unfold against the backdrop of that competition, with the wily Wolf Clark Thomas Feeneyy) popping up frequently as an all-purpose bad guy.
The back-and-forth also comes amid a backdrop of increasingly nasty competition between the two networks, with CNN trying to promote the quality of its journalism as a counter to Fox's ratings.
Against the backdrop of stiff competition between supermarkets and widespread discounting, average store prices were down 2% on a year ago in July.
INCREASED TENSION BETWEEN SAIF AL-ISLAM AND MUATASSIM 6. (C) Against that backdrop of tension, competition between Saif al-Islam, whom most still regard as the heir-apparent, and Muatassim, whose viability as a potential alternative successor has risen since his appointment as National Security Adviser, has increased since last fall.
Moving forward, what can scientometrics offer towards our understanding of careers in science against the backdrop of implicit competition and reward?
At the backdrop of fierce international competition, Wuhan University sets out to implement global recruitment plan, in order to broaden and extend our view and ways of bringing in talents around the world.
