Sentence examples for high-cost structure from inspiring English sources
"Rhode Island has the high-cost structure of Minnesota but the low-quality services of Mississippi," Mr. Atkinson said.
The high-cost structure of branches also explains why companies such as Wells Fargo are closing regular branches and [locating] smaller offices inside supermarkets.
Raymond James analyst Marshall Adkins said the monetization of the projects "does not alter the fact that SunPower retains a markedly high-cost structure and razor-thin margins in the context of a massively oversupplied market".
Selling personal computers at retail "is a bad business to be in right now with Businessland's strategy" of high-end services and high-cost structures, he said.
"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.
