To reduce that, the company cut capital expenditures, renegotiated some plane leases and consolidated offices.
"We quickly integrated them and consolidated offices in Shanghai, where Danone had been, and turned the business around.
We laid off 173 people, that's a considerable cost-saving, consolidated offices, our users are going up, revenues are doubling and the reason for this is we're taking more control of our own future, creating a path to profitability and ensuring our independence at SoundCloud".
Since assuming office almost four years ago, Xi has rapidly consolidated power, including heading a group leading economic change and appointing himself commander-in-chief of the military, though as head of the central military commission he already controlled the armed forces.
Erdogan deftly consolidated power and championed political Islam when he took office as prime minister in 2003.
Since taking office, Rajapaksa has done away with term limits, consolidated power in the hands of the president, and stacked the Supreme Court with allies.
Euroskeptical parties consolidated power in Poland, Portugal, Hungary, and Slovakia.
Since fiscal 2010, the agency has consolidated 92 field offices into 46 offices and has closed 521 contact stations (mobile floating service facilities that set up shop in other government offices)." Busy signals on the SSA's phone lines doubled last year.
It has cut hours at hundreds of small, rural post offices, consolidated mail processing centers and reduced staffing levels.
In 2000 – the year after a new constitution was enacted in Venezuela – some of the municipality functions were delegated to a consolidated mayor's office called Alcaldía Mayor, which also has some authority over the other four municipalities of Caracas.
The site consolidated manufacturing and offices in the Crawley area and the south-east of England.
