Under the new strategy implemented by the current chief executive in February 2012 (designed to shape another decade of market out-performance), there has been an emphasis on higher margin health and hygiene operations and on boosting emerging market sales.
Combined with other strategies such as greater emphasis on higher margin, private label merchandise, the added cushion allows Ashford.com to pursue its goal of profitability by Christmas 2001 without panic.
In the weeks following the election, I would have liked more emphasis on the margin of Obama's victory in the popular vote -- almost five million -- to dispute the widely held illusion that the election was close.
The article by Sarpel et al., entitled " Outcome for patients treated with laparoscopic versus open resection of hepatocellular carcinoma: a case-matched analysis" sought to compare the outcomes of laparoscopic versus open liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), with specific emphasis on surgical margin status and survival.
Focusing on profitability: emphasis on high-margin service contracts, high-end electronics, away from low-margin computers.
Mr. Apotheker is stepping up an emphasis on higher-margin businesses including servers, storage computers and software, and deceasing its dependence on PCs, Mr. Marshall said.
The deal is "offering us significant additional long-term growth potential with an emphasis on high-margin oil," the BP chief executive, Tony Hayward, said in a statement.
But the company's managers insist that they have been making good progress under Ricardo Gonçalves, who took over as chief executive in late 2001 -- streamlining operations to seven plants, putting more emphasis on higher-margin products like yogurts, cheeses and fruit juices, and narrowing the net loss to $28 million in the first three quarters of 2003, down from $76 million for 2002.
Conductive will place an emphasis on improving margins, aiming to accelerate revenue and reduce costs.
