It remains, however, a capital-intensive business with limited top-line revenue growth. |
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Search-based, targeted advertising helped make e-tailing a much less capital-intensive, risky business. |
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The industry is so capital-intensive that if someone has access to cheap financing, it can sell products at much lower prices, he said. |
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Traditionally, the company prefers to leave the capital-intensive bottling and distribution business to independent partners. |
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In what is such a capital-intensive business, Tesco invariably pays a price for its expansion and development programmes. |
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Now, despite legal restrictions on capital-intensive investment, chipmakers and designers are making the leap, too. |
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Unlike graphic design, her new business is capital-intensive and requires management of inventory, fulfillment, and manufacturing. |
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Also, I'm not clear as to why focusing on operating cash flow penalizes capital-intensive businesses. |
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Adding value to farm commodities usually requires building capital-intensive processing plants, and that means sizable investments by producers. |
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The industries most highly encouraged in Malaysia are the high-technology, capital-intensive industries, which do not require much labour. |
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Such co-operation is a natural free market development in capital-intensive industries. |
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Mechanization in turn meant more capital investment, and capital-intensive industries required the presence of workers all the year round. |
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Canadian agriculture is built around the adoption and use of capital-intensive technology. |
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This is especially the case in industries that are capital-intensive and export-oriented, such as the forestry and the mining sectors. |
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This enables Electrawinds to continue to grow in a market which is very capital-intensive and is rapidly expanding. |
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Many investment projects, particularly in the energy sector, are capital-intensive and call for stable financing over an extended period. |
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There are, apparently, other very capital-intensive projects in other parts of the world that offer more immediate returns. |
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By the same token, some analysts contend that focusing on cash flow from operations penalizes profitable and fast-growing but capital-intensive businesses. |
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The natural resources sector uses capital-intensive technology and creates a limited number of jobs. |
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Work has changed from being labour-intensive to being capital-intensive, and human capital is becoming more and more important. |
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In an age in which billions would starve if not for the use of artificial fertilizers in capital-intensive agriculture, the left blathers on about small-scale organic farming. |
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We are also examining ways to reduce our cost of capital and to alleviate the capital-intensive nature of our businesses. |
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Any communications business that relies on capital-intensive installed infrastructure is potentially at risk because of the relentless pace of Moore's Law. |
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ExxonMobil may be an old-school, capital-intensive resource company, but it is churning out results that rival those of Apple. |
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It's a labor-intensive, capital-intensive, largely commodity-type business. |
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It is this capital-intensive structure of the industry which enables outsiders to check pricing calculations and make comparative assessments. |
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Finally, China went up the manufacturing value curve by going for high-tech and capital-intensive industries like ferrous metals, automobiles and petroleum. |
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They're very different businesses after all, with the application business being innovation-intensive and the infrastructure business being capital-intensive. |
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First of all, the ratio is really only useful when you are looking at capital-intensive businesses or financial businesses with plenty of assets on the books. |
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I believe that within ten years, unless something happens very soon to change the trend, our capital-intensive industries will pass the point of no return. |
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In order to generate profits, the treadmill relies heavily on energy-intensive, capital-intensive technology, which allows it to economize on labor inputs. |
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Automaking is a notoriously difficult, capital-intensive business. |
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Moreover, Japan is also specialised in predominantly capital-intensive goods, reflecting its high capital stock. |
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The main ports Rotterdam and Antwerp have many capital-intensive plants and technologic companies. |
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It is, however, a capital-intensive business. |
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The airline industry is highly capital-intensive. |
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China's growth is still too capital-intensive. |
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Mr. Lampert also shies away from capital-intensive businesses. |
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Nestlé coffee factories are capital-intensive operations and supplying them with coffee beans of sufficient quality has often required the transfer of new expertise. |
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The funding was only for one year, even though the fleet is a capital-intensive activity with high fixed costs that requires long-term funding certainty. |
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In addition, it may provide capital-intensive test facilities for the benefit of specific industrial sectors, e.g. wind tunnels, and will itself be asked to conduct research. |
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The service sector is much more able to absorb hidden unemployment than the industrial sector, because of the possibilities of small-scale production and less capital-intensive work. |
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Corrupt government officials steer social and economic development towards large capital-intensive infrastructure projects that provide fertile ground for corruption, and in doing so neglect health and education programmes. |
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Public vocational training centres tend to have a wide geographical coverage and to focus on training in skills required by highly capital-intensive occupations. |
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Because of the quantities involved and the capital-intensive nature of the business, the early printing and publishing of books tended to be centralized. |
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Economic efficiency did not necessarily entail the development of large, capital-intensive factories, for towns themselves were highly effective economic units. |
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The manufacturing growth has been jobless because it is based on capital-intensive investment to mostly produce durables such as cars, washing machines, and dishwashers. |
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Petroleum is the most productive and capital-intensive industry while apparel is the least productive and least capital intensive. |
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This tax system was adequate in the past, when most Ohio businesses were capital-intensive companies. |
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Operations managers in the capital-intensive pulp and paper industry are under pressure to achieve a high return from assets employed. |
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Some of its myths were once true, but now it's a mature, global, competitive, commodity-based, and capital-intensive industry. |
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In contrast to Third World countries, growth economies moved from labor-intensive production to capital-intensive and energy-intensive production. |
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However, the projects tend to be more capital-intensive than labour-intensive, with the result that the number of jobs created per project decreases every year. |
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Biocatalysis process technologies have demonstrated that they are less capital-intensive, have lower operating costs, and yield higher purity products with fewer by-products and reduced environmental hazards. |
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The business of laying fibre-optic cable, both terrestrially and under the sea, used to be the preserve of incumbent telecoms operators sharing the burden of capital-intensive projects. |
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The existence of reserve capacity is common to most capital-intensive industries, where there are large sunk costs but marginal variable costs of production are low. |
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Now Spielberg is acutely theming: he is the creative mastermind behind GameWorks, the new chain of big, state-of-the-art, capital-intensive video-game arcades. |
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Furthermore, because of the capital-intensive nature of water suppliers and sewage treatment facilities, any underestimation of the cost of capital is going to have significant consequences for the recorded costs of supply. |
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So until now, getting the gas to market has involved cooling it enough to liquefy it, shipping it in special tankers, and converting it back to gaseous form at the destination which is expensive and capital-intensive. |
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At present the country's economic structure reflects an undiversified economy that is highly dependent on a capital-intensive oil sector, with a traditional agricultural sector accounting for the bulk of employment. |
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Moreover, if it means greater profit, as in the low-wage garment industry, capitalists will readily revert from automated, capital-intensive methods to labor-intensive sweatshops that look much as they did a century ago. |
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While Mr. Van Loan's statement may be true, it is not modern, high-technology, capital-intensive agriculture that actually feeds most of the global population, either today or at any time. |
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