Sentence examples for eroding margins from inspiring English sources

Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu (China's answer to Google) have gone on acquisition sprees to prepare for a battle royal, and this is eroding margins: Tencent reported disappointing earnings this week.

Having bought hundreds of brands during the 1990s, Unilever called a halt just over a year ago after discovering that the costs of supporting its long tail of weaker brands were eroding margins at an alarming rate.

But Republicans, who have controlled both houses of the Legislature since 1991, albeit by steadily eroding margins, have attacked the plan in court, saying it would help white Democrats but remove the opportunities for minorities that already existed.

Eileen O'Neill Odum, the president of network operations for Verizon, said that the eroding margins would become worse if the company did not obtain more flexibility in managing the size and location of its work force.

Developing economies are willing to open their wallets for solid network infrastructure, which is saving them from eroding margins, and new low cost competitors.

Ford, suffering from a tire crisis, eroding margins, quality problems and a declining market share, announced that Henry Ford Henry Ford 's great-grandson, William Clay Ford Jr. William Clay Ford Jr., currently the company's chairman, will take a direct role in management.

Acquiring customers, which is often done through mailshots, is expensive and erodes margins.

And packaged food manufacturers are unlikely to lower prices because commodity costs remain relatively high and they are still trying to rebuild eroded margins.

The simmering enmity boiled over throughout the Eighties and Nineties when the battle of the brands intensified first with price wars, which resulted in weakened brand loyalty and eroded margins for both companies, and then with increasingly ingenious marketing schemes.

Eroded margins were a factor in the 21% drop Manpower's stock has taken since the company reported a disappointing profit June 16.

This drives up the price and could limit the company's future growth and erode margins, making it more difficult to become profitable.