That implies the formation of closer relationships with multinational clients if it is to sustain profit margins.
In recent years, management has invested in technology to more quickly respond to changing customer demands, improve inventory control and sustain profit margins.
While entertainment behemoths, the patrons of pop culture's commercial arts, struggle to sustain profit margins, their product, the celebrity, runs off with the spoils.
Division executives have employed pricing strategies aimed at sustaining profit margins rather than sales volume, with historically fewer price incentives than rival brands.
It has sustained its profit margins (before interest, taxes and depreciation) of over 40% even as it offers calls for as little as one rupee ($0.02) per minute.It also believes it has learnt some tricks that would work wonders in Africa.
Analysts have been particularly concerned whether Cisco could sustain its profit margins.
He also noted that due to limited carrier subsidies, there would be very little room for Dell to sustain reasonable profit margins from the rumored handset(s).
It might be a highly mechanized factory, or a big software R&D budget, a big ad campaign that sustains large profit margins for branded goods, or professional skills acquired over years of training.
The publishing companies cannot sustain their profit margins if this money machine ceases to exist as it has for the past 30 years.
In addition, Indian companies are also looking outside India for lower-cost centers, and China and other cheaper Asian economies are likely to be part of their plans for sustaining a healthy profit margin.
"Although the economy will experience a cyclical bounce, it is not positioned for a sustained upturn in profit margins," Mr. Kasman and Mr. Mellman wrote in their report.
