cost-cutting

Better discipline and aggressive cost-cutting seem to be helping Starbucks recover from the hit it took at the onset of the recession.

Sokol: NetJets Co-Founder Jim Jacobs said Sokols cost cutting has cost the company customers and left it a ? tiny shadow of what it was.

Xavier Niel, the entrepreneur, lost patience and launched one of his former lieutenants on an expeditious cost-cutting operation.

The food cuts could be a harbinger to further cost-cutting; Deep Fried has heard that the building might be put up for sublease.

Cost cutting during a downturn is often necessary to ensure a company's current profitability and future competitiveness.

One of the most obvious changes is expected to be a less intense pursuit of cost-cutting, which the unions also blamed for the suicides.

Lotito has always maintained that his cost-cutting measures were necessary to help the club out of their dire fiscal position.

In spite of these cost-cutting measures, Mr Potter knows that, without help, the service could run out of cash by the end of the year.

The company reported that it has reduced its debt to $18. 9 billion through a combination of cost cutting and asset sales.

Eventually, there could even be a hybrid version of Zeta but cost-cutting may end up delaying the release of such a model.

Instead, Fiat watched in despair as an effective cost- cutting programme was offset by slow sales, leaving four years of losses.

Toyota Motor is to reduce year-end bonuses for thousands of managers as part of a cost- cutting drive in response to plummeting sales.

The bank laid off 260 employees in Seattle when it moved its call center to India as part of its cost-cutting initiative.

Robert Gordon, of Northwestern University, reckons that the post-2001 acceleration was the result of cost-cutting, not innovation.

AFTER years of fat profits and bonuses, cost-cutting is once again at the top of the corporate agenda.

By taking personal charge of the 111 cost-cutting initiatives promised by RBS, Sir Fred delivered greater savings than it had projected.

Only significant cost-cutting and a one-off change in its tax position stopped that loss from being bigger than it was.

In 2002 it withdrew from seven countries, including Bolivia, which had poor profit margins, in a cost cutting exercise.

"I don't think I would say that cost-cutting was an issue, " he says. Lack of oversight?

The scheme has none of the characteristics of a conventional corporate merger or cost-cutting drive.

Analysts said China Mobile's main chance to stop margins eroding was more aggressive cost-cutting especially in lower-margin rural services.

And that cost-cutting is resulting in higher unemployment, and of course the higher unemployment is creating lack of demand.

This would mean less lending , fewer modifications to mortgage loans , more cost cutting, more capital building and more job cuts, he said .

That is likely to reassure investors that the earnings revival isn't just a product of deep cost-cutting during the recession.

Shopping at Lidl may provide fat discounts but buying your groceries at cost-cutting stores could also encourage you to pile of the pounds.

Hurd is beloved by investors for his relentless cost-cutting but widely scorned by the thousands of employees he has axed along the way.

Where would FedEx be today if the company had hired a "cost-cutting, manufacturing expert" as its chief executive officer?

Furthermore, as a result of cost-cutting imposed during the recent writers' strike, the TV industry has largely abandoned "pilots" .

The stockmarket continues to reward cost-cutting, even if it pares muscle as well as fat.

We believe Sun's top line will continue to be challenging and that the fate of shares rest on cost cutting. '

That discrepancy is the result of aggressive cost-cutting on the part of Japanese exporters like Toyota and Sony.

Banks are expected to unveil more cost-cutting initiatives in response to a slowdown that may extend through the summer months.

So far Chrysler has managed to persuade its main union to back the restructuring and agree a cost-cutting deal.

Aggressive cost-cutting by Japanese companies is expected to have helped profit, if not a sustained recovery.

But Josh Quittner, an editor with Time magazine, revealed that the change was also done as a cost-cutting measure.

It is a cost-cutting measure that could have come from the era of Frank McCourt's misery memoir of poverty and deprivation, Angela's Ashes.

Corporate profits have come in above reduced expectations, in large part due to cost cutting.

The volume of drug sales has been very strong and, combined with cost-cutting, has brought companies out of their earnings slump for now.

And in case anyone thought this was not a cost-cutting exercise, officials from the Treasury are sitting in all the key meetings.

On August 9, U. S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the elimination of a major U. S. combat command as a cost-cutting measure.

Ruthless cost-cutting reminiscent of recessions past is already underway on Wall Street and across the City of London.

Gault turned a cost-cutting hobby into a career and says she gets a runner's high before haggling.

The groundwork for the revamping includes a cost-cutting deal ratified by the United Auto Workers union late Wednesday.

In the meantime, the enterprises begin to research the reverse logistics for cost cutting down and improve competition ability.

However, many respondents were cynical about the prospect of this happening, fearing client services will be a victim of cost cutting.

And without deep cost-cutting and reform, the system will struggle to cope with the coming incredible shrinking of Japan.

If the private sector does not meet certain cost-cutting targets in, say, five years, a public-sector plan should automatically kick in.

The move saved the network more than $3 million annually, but it was not a cost-cutting decision, executives said.

In the case of Steve Jobs, it was not about cost cutting or exiting businesses.

Firms have been able to boost profits in the past year mainly by cost-cutting, something that is unlikely to be as easy in future.

She didn't expect that her cost-cutting proposal would land her in hot water at the company.

Cost-cutting measures should avoid enforced redundancies but will lead to the closure of one of its plants.

Many Republicans say it was cost-cutting by Republican governors that has caused the economic resurgence in their states.

Most Western bureaucrats try to deal with such problems with successive rounds of cost-cutting.

Main advantages of the overall process are the cost cutting in the overall process of the business project.

Aggressive cost cutting and a recent boom in debt issuance also have swelled cash balances.

Unusually savage company cost-cutting early in this cycle is another reason why recent productivity swings have been so extreme.

The airline recently warned that without fierce cost-cutting measures it would fail to make even an operating profit this year.

Democrats are still clinging to entitlement programs with no talk of real cost cutting, though the current system is clearly unaffordable.

The cloud people suggest a daring complement to the cost-cutting: Adopt the rapid-prototyping, beta-testing lifestyle of the new era.

Other investors still think stocks will outperform bonds as layoffs and other cost-cutting moves position companies for an earnings rebound.

The New Haven, Connecticut-based school is now facing deficits and cost-cutting measures.

Facing slumping sales and extreme cost cutting, General Motors will shutter most of its U. S. plants for nine weeks this summer.

Cost-cutting measures implemented during the recession, he says, will help the casinos turn bigger profits amid the recovery.

On Wednesday, thousands of public employees in Greece held a strike to protest cost-cutting measures.

But for belated cost-cutting measures and falls in raw-material prices, the forecast would be worse.

Cost cutting looks great on a spreadsheet, but layoffs come at a significant cost to morale and productivity.

Cost-cutting measures may also have made firms' supply chains more vulnerable to counterfeit parts.

Cost cutting during the recession helped improve productivity and profitability.

Once recapitalized , the Swedish banks had to submit to government-directed restructuring and cost cutting.

The company will keep their focus on growth, not on cost cutting.

In a different context, BP had questioned the impact of its cost-cutting in the Gulf.

The lawsuit was filed by a single person who claims that the improvements were actually unsafe cost-cutting measures.

The latest red flags were reports that Coca-Cola and General Motors planned to target marketing budgets as part of cost-cutting efforts.

Holidaymakers are even less willing to forego their annual holiday than six months ago but many will adopt new cost-cutting tactics.

They blame a combination of complacency, cost-cutting pressures and lax regulation for the failure to do so.

The episode underscored how hard it remains for Japanese companies to use cost-cutting as the logic for merging.

Implementing effective cost-cutting strategies for the packaging of consumer products.

Unsurpr isin gly, such a price point requires serious cost-cutting.

Have pharmaceutical companies neglected their pipeline of new drugs in favour of cost-cutting and marketing?

In an era of cost-cutting and layoffs, Wall Street philanthropy is a delicate balancing act.

In terms of cost - cutting , the easier gains have already been made .

Some examples of cost cutting include, consolidating vendors and leveraging the collective buying powers of Starwood's brands.

Large businesses tend to be mature and to focus on cost-cutting, outsourcing and automation.

But Peter Schiff, president of brokerage Euro Pacific Capital, said more cost cutting is needed to match America's new economic reality.

What if Lego abruptly shifts its entire production to China in the coming months in a surprise cost-cutting move?

At the sharp end of public sector cost-cutting are the people who drive trains, collect rubbish and bury the dead.

Distress turns to anger as residents of one town blame cost-cutting and poor workmanship for the collapse of several buildings in the quake.

With more software developers than Microsoft, Citi has plenty of cost-cutting scope in technology, too.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou vows to push forward with cost-cutting measures, despite strong opposition.

Our research suggests that instead of refining cost-cutting techniques, companies should develop cost-innovation capabilities.

The official leading the reform, who had received death threats in a previous round of cost-cutting, now has police protection.

But there is no way Greece can generate enough money by cost-cutting and asset sales to pay off its debts.

Thanks to brutal cost cutting, companies have returned to levels of profitability last seen before the recession.

In part that's because corporate profits have mostly been strong due to cost cutting, not improved sales.

Analysts have noted that aggressive cost cutting, mostly head count reduction, has been behind this year's stronger-than-expected earnings.

One significant cost-cutting factor for blow-moulding is air recycling using the Air Wizard, which acts in three or four stages.

Cost-cutting and striving for preferential policies are also effective ways to enhance the economic return.

Cost-cutting measures have been implemented in most British hospitals.

Cost-cutting measures include production cuts, employee lay-offs and postponement of certain models.

After relentless focus on cost-cutting under Hurd, his successor may change gears and satisfy Wall Street's desire for growth.

I don't recommend using consignment inventory as a localized cost-cutting tactic.

In the era of austerity, complete with subdued consumers and cost-cutting companies, big brands are flourishing.

The cost-cutting effort remained incomplete as the Fourth of July approached.

Profits at Cisco, the world's largest maker of networking equipment, have jumped, helped by increased sales and cost cutting measures.

His first priority was to announce a sweeping cost-cutting exercise of 40 per cent in four years.

Changes are driven by various factors like expansion of business, mergers, competitive pressure, cost-cutting, policy changes, and more.

Short-sighted cost-cutting and the imposition of stodgy GM engineering resulted in Saabs that were no longer special.

HTTP has a "Host" header which allows a cost-cutting Internet hosting companies to pile hundreds of websites onto a single IP address.

Therefore, the total economic effect from these cost-cutting measures in Q1 amounted to USD 554 mln.

There are sound military reasons for this internal cost-cutting, especially the need to redirect money to the war in Afghanistan.

Carefully consider the pros and cons of refinancing your home before taking this cost-cutting step.

Companies also will need to deliver earnings fueled by better sales, rather than by the aggressive cost-cutting that many undertook in 2009.

The overlap between the two companies is limited, and so are the opportunities for cost-cutting.

But that does not factor in considerable scope for cost cutting.

Dazzling stunts in space, not cost-cutting, were the order of the day.

Extensive cost cutting can sometimes cause businesses a loss rather than a savings.

Despite my cost-cutting ways, I actually have sympathy for the restaurant help.

Even famous European companies, he added, 'may be bloated and in need of cost-cutting. '

Mr Ishibashi urges Oji and other Japanese paper makers to focus on consolidation and cost-cutting at home.

Wall Street still has the support of buoyant corporate profits, thanks to foreign earnings and cost-cutting.

As patents expire on bestselling drugs, waves of cost-cutting, layoffs and R&D cutbacks follow.

Veterans of earlier downturns say the cost-cutting this time has been relatively restrained.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop on Friday alluded to cost cutting, job retraining and layoffs ahead.

Hole trajectory of directional drilling is very important for drilling safety and efficiency, and cost cutting.

Christian Macht, another managing director, is executing the drastic cost-cutting measures.

But Granholm's idea is an attractive cost-cutting measure.

He believes corporate cost-cutting could continue to lead to higher-than-expected profits even on modest sales improvement.

In China, however, a heavy environmental price is being paid for the production of "green" lightbulbs in cost-cutting factories.

The unions have responded by proclaiming war on cost-cutting governments.

So whatever cost-cutting measures are enacted in the final budget bill will have roughly double the effect.

Yet, in spite of his early delivery on cost cutting, investors marked down UBS shares by more than 5 per cent.

S. market. The Ka and the 500 share the same platform, which could present an interesting cost-cutting scheme for Chrysler, Fiat and Ford.

In this crisis, companies embraced cost cutting and efficiency.

In fact, if rising commodity prices lead to more corporate cost cutting, then that will put more downward pressure on inflation.

The emphasis has been on cost-cutting, rather than overhauling business models.

Cost reduction with process improvement by reducing the setup time, cycle time and effective low-cost cutting tool application.

Organic growth, rather than cost-cutting, is the banks' new mantra.

He looks for "defence first, offence second" , and makes no bones about the need for cost-cutting.

Others say it was simply a matter of cost-cutting.

Over the past 30 years India has built up an expertise in the low-cost cutting of smaller diamonds in Surat and Mumbai.

In the past months, we have identified a series of cost cutting activities that will protect us better during these tough days.

Cost cutting alone will not suffice to pull off this trick.

Cost-cutting initiatives already under way.

The Q2 test has been passed and exceeded. But positive surprises have been down to cost cutting and it's filtering through.

Because of cost cutting initiatives, we are able to limit the headcount reduction to about 5%.

include aggressive cost cutting in discretionary spending such as contract services, travel, and marketing expenses.

They interpret talk about value as code for cost-cutting.

This is particularly galling when wage restraint and cost cutting is being trumpeted by those same senior people.

It is unclear how News of the World's closure has affected the cost-cutting plan.

Thanks to vigorous cost-cutting in the US and Europe, the picture is now more nuanced.

Mergers of major players could lead to cost-cutting that crimps overall R&D spending.

For a firm such as Capita, which sells cost-cutting fixes to others, including government, it is also good advertising.

The measure forms part of BBVA's cost-cutting.

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting.

Cost-cutting is vital to beating the downturn and if companies can boost their green credentials at the same time, why not?

Brisk growth in emerging markets and cost-cutting compensated for higher prices of raw materials, such as cocoa and milk powder.

Joyce Curran wrote: "This is not about converting black holes. We will cover any losses from savings and cost-cutting" .

The budget airline business model relies heavily on cost-cutting measures such as making passengers pay to check in luggage.

His cost-cutting strategies were as follows.

Since cost-cutting began in the 1980s, quality has fallen along with food budgets.

A cost-cutting drive is expected to save $2 billion next year and $3 billion in 2008.

They are mired in cost cutting and in complaints about services.

Butothers doubt the change will result in lower fares any more than previous cost cutting, such as eliminating meals or taking awayblankets.

With heavy cost-cutting, he doubled them to 12% as of last quarter.

So this is a cost-cutting measure, it is not a cancellation measure.

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Cost-cutting had also played a part.

Deliveries of mail could be delayed because of cost-cutting.

Cost-cutting suddenly doesn't sound all bad, does it?

Cost-cutting ideas are key.

HP estimated $1. 8 billion in annual cost savings once the three-year cost-cutting program is completed.

In another cost-cutting measure, 2, 400 workers were laid off in November.

How to increase productivity of resources and not cost cutting alone?

"I think it shows that if you are into cost-cutting, you can get into endless problems, " Oxford said.

when workers are put on to the street because of desperate cost-cutting or bankruptcies.

Profits dipped in 2009, but surged again by 47% in 2010 after some forceful cost-cutting.

If guests feel the cost cutting, they will not come back.

The job cuts come after a series of other cost-cutting moves by Google.

That's partly because of cost cutting and ad campaigns, but it helped that sales rose 2. 6 percent.

In the last year its founder chief executive was ousted in favour of cost-cutting kudos.

MD: Right, let's look at some more general cost_cutting measures we can take.

However, there are some cost cutting options available.

Pay cuts have been in the headlines, but not as much as other cost-cutting tactics.

The tourism business made a euro 400m profit last year and cost-cutting should ensure that profits are sustained.

I met a Hong Kong movie producer some years back and picked up a lesson on cost cutting and productivity.

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