The phrase "high cost structure" is correct and usable in written English.
It describes a situation where the costs of doing something (e.g. running a business) are higher than expected or desired. For example, you could say: "The company has been struggling to turn a profit due to a high cost structure".
The biggest obstacle to long-term growth, company officials say, is its high cost structure.
"The industry is in for a very hard time unless we address the high cost structure immediately", argues Ayman Asfari, the boss of Petrofac, a large oil-services company.
The commodity business requires low costs and aggressive distribution through multiple channels combined with rapid new product introductions, qualities incompatible with the company's historically high cost structure and cumbersome organization.
On Kazakhmys in particular, it said: Our view on Kazakhmys was premised on the assumptions that 1) management had its high cost structure under control and 2) the market had priced this in, neither of which was nor seems to be true now.
The Globe also has a relatively high cost structure, experts say, in part because of the lifetime job guarantees for some of the paper's unions before the Times Company takeover, and still enjoyed by about 430 employees, including about 190 Guild members.
The centre's survey of the organisations funded by Rockefeller revealed a high cost structure relative to its peers, cumbersome decision-making and a culture that did not expect high performance or reward it.Ms Rodin decided that the separate fiefs had to go.
In May 2012, the Department for Work and Pensions published a report that said the sector was "not financially sustainable" because of high cost structures and low interest rates.
First, Wizz Air is neither saddled with the high cost structures of Europe's legacy airlines nor is it wedded to domestic economic health.
He believes the oil price slump is an overreaction and that prices should eventually stabilise around $70, but in the meantime the future of firms with high cost structures and debt levels will depend on the attitude of their banks.
Gue cites the breakout by DROOY as optimism that gold will stay at its current high levels, and it's bullish for other miners like Durban who have high cost structures.
