The company compensated for weak sales, especially of personal computers and mainframes, through strict cost controls.
FedEx said it raised its forecast because of an increased volume of international priority packages and "strict cost management".
Basic retail know-how, like putting the right clothes in the shop windows, was married to strict cost controls.
But HUD imposed strict cost limits on the job, forcing the contractors to use inferior building materials, he said.
In the last decade or so, American manufacturers have moved operations to China, Bangladesh, Vietnam and other lower-cost countries as they try to meet retailers' strict cost requirements.
BRUSSELS — The Belgian-French financial services group Dexia declared it was "on the mend" Wednesday after first-quarter profit beat expectations because of strict cost controls.
Tight oil typically requires approaches carefully tailored to each oil field, an artful combination of technologies, much trial and error, and strict cost control.
Along the way, it discovered that customers, especially foreign ones, have strict cost requirements it needs to match.It is unclear how successful these courses will be.
He wants to prove that strict cost controls and hit animated films are not mutually exclusive, that these pictures do not have to cost $150 million, which is about what Paramount Pictures and its partners spent on "Rango".
"Although our strict cost management over the last two years has provided us with a more competitive cost structure, our overall profitability is still not satisfactory as we continue to work through historical issues," said John J. Mack, the co-chief executive of Credit Suisse and chief executive of Credit Suisse First Boston.
