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Capital Intensive |
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Capital Intensive Describing a company or industry requiring a great deal of capital to maintain operations. For example, the automobile industry is capital-intensive because, in order to make cars, it requires a lot of workers and expensive equipment that must be properly maintained. Another, smaller scale example is a dentist office, which requires expensive equipment and materials. In order to stay afloat, capital intensive companies need either consistently large profits or inexpensive credit. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Procurement can improve the capital intensity of a business through initiatives that help working capital and that impact the total investment in capital assets. The capital intensity of such a hydrogen refueling infrastructure is probably less than the capital intensity of sustaining the existing gasoline fueling infrastructure, according to Lovins. 79 Industry Total (a) Pulp, paper, and packaging capital expenditures, excluding acquisitions of, or mergers with other firms (b) Capital intensity = pulp, paper, and packaging capital expenditures/pulp, paper, and packaging annual sales (c) Change is absolute (i. |
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