This combination is tailor-made for high margins and consensus-whopping earnings reports.
Additionally, it's a sector that has potential for high margins, given the tiny portions involved and parents' willingness to pay extra for wholesome ingredients in convenient packages.
Being engineers, the numbers were probably easier to reason about: we had been studying public company valuations, and were able to see the price was an attractive offer and gave us credit for high margins, high growth and great future execution.
For example, buyers of boxed oatmeal might receive a coupon for higher margin single-serving packs, or lemonade buyers might get coupons for lemon cola.
For high-margin, big-ticket items, the competition for eyeballs is even more intense.
STMicroelectronics N.V., Europe's biggest chip manufacturer, said today that its fourth-quarter net income rose 51percentt as demand for high-margin semiconductors grew from the wireless and Internet industries.
Television also represents a new market with the potential for higher margins than telephony, the price of which is rapidly falling to zero.
However, the City was cheered by the news that a drive for higher margins is likely to come in at the top end of expectations, amid cost-cutting in the supply chain and more stock being sold at full price.
At the same time, says Rainer Neske, the head of retail banking, his staff are encouraged to aim for higher margins as well as volumes.The biggest bet on a growing appetite for long-term savings products, however, was Allianz's purchase of Dresdner Bank in 2001.
