When a company is threatened - it can defend margins or sales but not both.
Although tour operators might seem exposed to macroeconomic crosswinds, the key is to react quickly by cutting capacity and defending margins with more robust prices.
(See "Thomas Cook Cruises Through The Downturn"). Although tour operators might seem exposed to macroeconomic crosswinds, the key is to react quickly by cutting capacity and defending margins with more robust prices.
The seat of Melbourne is the prize the Greens are eyeing most optimistically, with Labor defending a margin of 4.7%.
Defending the margin illustrations of the biblical illuminator Adelmo, he reminds the humorless Jorges of Burgos that some ancient Christian authorities prized laughter and absurdity for what it might reveal.
The company defended its profit margin as reasonable and sustainable, saying it "stands comparison to organisations that provide other every day essentials such as food retailers, telecoms companies and high street retailers".
During years of chronic inflation, the managers of XYZ Corporation developed the habit of raising prices to cover rising costs and defend profit margins.
Then, we improve the previous empirical Bernstein bounds (Audibert et al. 2009; Maurer and Pontil, 2009) [2], [30], and based on such findings, we defend the margin-based explanation against Breimanʼs doubts by proving a new generalization error bound that considers exactly the same factors as Schapire et al. (1998) [39] but is sharper than Breimanʼs (1999) [9] minimum margin bound.
Tod's, by contrast, must defend its margins by passing the costs of hand-stitching, expensive leathers and continued innovation on to consumers, which it can do only by promoting exclusivity.
I think 2019 will be the year the industry gets together and defends its margins.
But Nokia did manage to defend its margins and ship more units than expected, which gave investors an avenue into the stock Thursday afternoon.
