Another is that more and more Chinese companies with low costs are coming into the market.
We have a state-of-the-art electronic network with low costs," says one stalwart.
Firms making specialty chemicals are keen to combine technical expertise with low costs and a growing market.
Long term, however, Chrysler can only survive with low costs and respectable profits, a formula that its two Detroit rivals also are trying to carry out.
By the way, our own Veterans Health Administration, which is run somewhat like the British health service, also manages to combine quality care with low costs.
A combination of innovation (hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking"), finance and enterprise have now opened them up, often to small oil and gas firms with low costs.
"Mr. Suter ran the business with low costs and compromised on safety," said Werner Vontobel, the chief economic editor of the Swiss newspaper Sonntagsblick, echoing a widely held view in Switzerland.
Rather than having to reinvent themselves, big companies, he believes, should concentrate on projects with high costs and low uncertainty, leaving those with low costs and high uncertainty to small entrepreneurs.
Even if no favourable court decision is forthcoming in the short term, the combination of a clear objective and a compelling and coherent message together with low costs to effect change creates a winning set of facts.
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