Until recently, the nutraceutical industry had concentrated on responding to the rise in obesity and lifestyle diseases in India by marketing more expensive, higher margin products to India's aspirant middle class.
It imports cheap, low-margin vehicles and exports expensive, high-margin ones, often to the new rich in the emerging world.
Since petrol prices first rose above $3 a gallon in 2005 Detroit has been trying to reconquer the modest car market instead of relying on sales of expensive, high-margin SUVs and other gas-guzzlers.
I am not for a moment suggesting that expensive, high-margin clothes may not be as guilty of some of the supply-chain sins as the pile-'em-high squad.
If computer manufacturers needed any further indication that their trade in more expensive, higher-margin laptops is under threat, this was it.
Reaching these regions and customers is more expensive, and rigid margin caps take away a lender's flexibility to price for these higher costs.
Lawyers are expensive and the margin on eels is slim, but Mr. Seaman, his son, Junior, and his brother, Bob, were still working the bay last week.
Also, since the synthetic phospholipids are expensive, the profit margin on the product may be smaller as compared to the product when developed with natural phospholipids.
Acquiring customers, which is often done through mailshots, is expensive and erodes margins.
Penny increments for stock trades have made large orders more expensive while trading margins have disappeared.
