As is usually the case with a hot new product, drug dealers have flocked to alpha-PVP because of immense profit margins.
Brazil also harbors other significant exploratory plays with petroleum potential, including the basins of the Equatorial Margin, an immense region of sedimentary basins over one million km2 in area.
In the meantime, the travel division – shops in airports and on stations – has enjoyed the benefit of turnover-based rents and captive customers willing to fork out for bottled water, where profit margins are presumably immense.
Certainly investment in U.S. refining facilities has been too low for too long, and, until this latest increase in oil prices, offered too much of a low-margin business to encourage the immense capital investment needed to build new refineries.
There remains an immense, untapped market for high-volume, low-margin legal services in this country – services that today are largely available only to the wealthy and the sophisticated.
"The turnover is immense," says Costley, "but I believe the profit margin is quite small, or was until recently, and practically all of it is ploughed back into the work".
There's an API for just about everything these days, but doing behavioral nudges right takes an immense amount of data and a very low margin for error.
Competitive pressure to hold down or cut prices is immense, they say, and opportunities for improving profit margins by trimming corporate fat or finding efficiencies in technology could be limited in the next few years.
While dynamic pricing is not new & used by many to increase sales and margins, its benefit to online retailers is immense.
In the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in particular, impoverished Guarani Indians live in crowded reservations, crammed between immense soy, sugar and cattle farms, or clinging to the margins in squalid roadside camps.
