easyJet may therefore be led to differentiate its pricing behaviour only for these "last booking" and "less price-sensitive" customers, for example by maintaining discounted fares at pre-entry levels while reducing fares offered on the last booking day.
The company had suggested that the economics of selling over the Internet -- no store rents, no store clerks, better inventory management at central warehouses -- permitted high-volume online stores to maintain steeper discounts than their brick-and-mortar rivals.
Next, we examined whether firms that scored higher on the stakeholder cooperation and conflict index were expected to have fewer delays and disruptions— allowing them to come closer to the optimal extraction plan and therefore maintain market valuations discounted less steeply from the intrinsic value of their assets.
Another high profile company, FedEx, continues to maintain its NRA discount program.
While it remains unlikely that individuals' time preferences do not change over time [ 23], albeit differently for costs and effects, we chose to maintain a fixed discount rate for simplicity reasons.
It is investigating Intel for using discounts to maintain its dominant position.
Other figures show that America Online is working harder and offering more discounts to maintain its growth in dial-up, or narrowband, service.
In some cases, like U.S. LEC, initial investors have already had to put more capital into the company or, as in the case of Welsh, Carson, they've been forced to buy up the company's bonds at discounts to maintain control.
The experience of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), sandtions and a U.S oil embargo against Iran since 1979, taught them to use different reward mechanisms and discounts to maintain customer loyalty.
It seems like an impractical idea at first, but it's a boon for callers who want to save some dough (at times, discounts can reach as high as 99%) and for the operators that maintain the network (Dynamic Discounting can mean lower loads during peak hours, if customers bite).
Judge John Gleeson said the settlements required only that Visa and MasterCard maintain a certain average discount.
