Ong, however, said meat companies now have to deal with increased cost of raw materials due to the weaker peso against the US dollar, resulting in a bit of a
profit squeeze.
Already, small and mid-size generic manufacturers have faced a
profit squeeze from falling prices.
GEICO's reaction to the
profit squeeze, however, was to accelerate its new-business efforts.
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NORTH SEA
PROFIT SQUEEZE Similarly to Shell, BP is another oil major that has said it would consider acquisitions even as it sheds operations in higher-risk, higher-cost regions such as Nigeria and Iraq.
But the growth in investor payouts is slowing amid a
profit squeeze on British firms, according to analysis by Capita Registrars.
The net effect means that doing the same things in the same ways eventually leads to a
profit squeeze.
BUYING SPREE,
PROFIT SQUEEZE In its most recent buy, announced the same day as Sharp's bailout deal, Sony agreed to pay $643 million for a 10 percent stake in scandal-tainted camera and endoscope maker Olympus Corp .
In the colony, this metropolitan (fundamentally fiscal) ambition forcefully reconstituted the 'traditional' economies of subsistence (and consumption) into elaborate economies of accumulation, thus producing not only new forms of land use and cropping systems, but also a system of
profit squeeze that overdetermined and recomposed all other facets of life in the (post)colony.
Investors and business people not only would have to plan around the inevitable
profit squeeze and premium hikes, they would have to look ahead to what might replace such an untenable situation, perhaps calls for government subsidies of various kinds or even, ultimately, a publicly run insurer.
Among the major pillars of Dubai in the United Arab EmiratesAAE (UAE) renowned tourism economy, Emirates appears to have entered a period of acute
profit squeeze, as a
Summary: Emirates, the biggest international airline, said it will combat a
profit squeeze from higher fuel costs by slashing fares to fill its 500-seat Airbus A380s, heightening competition for Air France-KLM and British Airways.
