Sentence examples for higher cost structure from inspiring English sources

"They haven't been getting the right sort of customer, and they have a higher cost structure than their competitors".

"Now they are stuck with a higher cost structure without the added revenues to offset it," said Philip Baggaley, an analyst at Standard and Poor's.

"The larger institutions have a much higher cost structure, and they have a harder time making a million-dollar loan profitable," Mr. Sloane said.

"Academic medical centers have a higher cost structure, and higher acuity patients who suffer from many health complications," the hospital said.

The F-150 "was designed on the old regime's watch, which means it has a lot of new content, a little higher cost structure than the old one and probably a little more complexity," he said.

The investment bank reported a 75% cost-income ratio in the first quarter versus 63%[the same time a year ago], and a 46% compensation: income ratio – even amongst investment banking peers, Barclays is carrying a higher cost structure".

Those operations, because they have higher cost structures, offer less-favorable odds than are available between individuals gambling against each other over the Internet.

Its major business is insurance, as the owner of a number of companies including Geico, an auto insurer that has been gaining market share and in the process making life harder for other insurers with higher cost structures.

The ability of Indian cutters to make more and better diamonds available to the American market is only likely to increase as dealers there move into areas previously dominated by countries with higher cost structures -- cutting signature-shaped diamonds, for example, and actually setting diamonds into the final pieces.

If credit markets don't free up over the next two years, then other miners will be in deeper trouble than Rio, such as Switzerland's Xstrata or U.S.'s Freeport-McMoRan, which have higher cost structures and are debt-laden, he added.

The cost per mother of US$139 in Uganda, compared to US$233 in Zambia indicated higher cost structures in the latter country, highlighting the need for policy makers to take the economic environment into consideration when planning such programmes.