margin business

With its proposed $12. 5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Google is jumping into the cutthroat, low-margin business of hardware.

I think this is a really attractive margin business, so I give it a 40% pretax margin.

Any slowing certainly will mean headaches for FedEx, where international airfreight is its highest margin business.

In textiles and clothing, a classic low-margin business, producers are celebrating record profits.

"It's not a very good margin business, " says Barry Adcock, who manages the landfill.

So banks were attracted to the higher-margin business of investment banking.

Consumer electronics retailing is "historically a low-margin business that is dependent on extended warranties for profitability, " he says.

The dairy industry is a competitive but low-margin business.

The conundrum for TV manufacturers is that even though televisions are a low-margin business, they generate a lot of revenue.

It is also much easier to get a high gross margin business profitable.

Go to Wall Street and tell long, confusing stories about how you are transforming H-P from a low-margin to a high-margin business.

CA: That's a high gross margin business.

It's not a high-margin business.

That deal would see the Nasdaq in control of virtually all US listings, which is also a high margin business.