Indeed, Samsung's staying power in what will surely be a tough, margin-stressed slog toward leadership in electronics marketing may lie in the powerful chip revenue stream.
It's a tough world out there for on-demand startups — confusion around the W2 vs. 1099 conversation, tough margins, and customer service are but a few of the initial obstacles for these companies.
Banks are once again throwing money at hedge funds and private-equity firms (though with tougher margin requirements).
The result is that refining — which, until recently, was a tough, low-margin business — has become tremendously lucrative.
It seems trading is tough and margins are under pressure at the debt-laden department store, which doesn't bode well for its efforts to get either a sale or a stockmarket flotation off the ground in the new year.
"Like Barcelona in football … they're the best team, but to win back-to-back Champions Leagues, even though you're the best, it's so tough, the margins are so small.
Its biggest rivals are Wesco Distribution and Anixter, but as a group the three firms only account for 16% market share in a tough low-margin business.
Amazon's strategy of selling as cheaply as it can may be tough on its margins but it is tougher on competitors.
THIN margins, tough regulations and worries about reputation make trading commodities look like a source of worries not profits for nervous bank bosses.
He did the standard cost-cutting but has found competing for core retail deposits to be a tough and low-margin business.
Mabey logs the tough fecundity of the margin, where wild nature spurns the advertised reservation and obliterates the laminated notice-boards of sanctioned history.
