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Years of heavy sales incentives had gutted its profit margins, and the company warned a significant loss was likely that year.

多年的高额销售激励措施吞食了公司的利润率，公司发布预警称当年可能出现巨额亏损。

The company missed Wall Street's estimates for both revenue and earnings and said it would have lower profit margins next quarter.

该公司未达到华尔街对其税收和收入的评估，称其下个季度的利润空间更低。

Letter volumes were falling by just a few percentage points a year, allowing sufficient cost savings to be found to maintain profit margins.

因此，传统邮递业的规模仅以每年几个百分点的速度缩小，这也使得各国政府能够得以凭借节省开支以达到维持邮政机构盈利差额的目的。

'It's fantastic, ' he said, but it's still unclear how the company will make money given its low profit margins.

他说，这很了不起，但考虑到微薄的利润率，这家公司怎么挣钱还是个未知数。

UBS's regional head has given warning that its profit margins there could be depressed for a year or two amid fierce competition for talent.

瑞士联合银行区域经理提醒到，由于人才之间过激竞争，该地区利润率可能会有一到两年的衰落。

The goal should not be to restrict business, to cap the size of companies or to vindictively cut profit margins.

上述举措不应以限制业务、控制公司规模、或存心降低利润率为目标，而是应该着眼于防止金融业在依赖于隐形公共担保的情况下不断壮大。

He studied every product, its customers and its pricing, and found a way to finally widen profit margins on many products.

他研究了每件产品、对应客户群以及定价，并找出方法最终扩大了许多产品的利润空间。

Dell, meanwhile, is trying to rebound from shrinking market share in PCs and tightening profit margins.

与此同时，戴尔正试图走出萎缩的PC市场份额和利润空间的局限。

Mulally said he would produce cars that customers want at better profit margins.

穆拉利曾表示他将在保证福特高利润率的情况下，生产令顾客满意的汽车。

The only way that companies can prosper in these markets is to cut costs relentlessly and accept profit margins close to zero.

在这些市场里，企业唯一能做的就是拼命地压缩成本和缩减利润。

Foxconn is already faced with thin profit margins, she said, and contracting companies share in the responsibility.

她说，富士康的利润边际已经很低了，所以签约公司也担负同样的责任。

Profit margins become smaller and smaller now, large enterprise or a little better, SMEs would be out of the ordinary.

现在利润空间越来越小，大企业还好点，产品普通的中小企业就不行了。

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

在2002年，麦当劳因销售业绩不佳关闭了包括玻利维亚在内的七个国家的门店，以减少开支。

It's what I call the Goldman Sachs Effect: Goldman increased its leverage and its profit margins shot into the stratosphere.

这就是我所说的高盛效应：高盛一直增加自己的影响，从而使其利润率大幅增加。

For some analysts, this shows that strong demand is there if developers are prepared to reduce their often-fat profit margins.

一些分析师认为，此举表明，如果开发商愿意压缩自己丰厚的利润率空间，市场还是存在旺盛需求的。

Lenovo paid generously for its landmark acquisition and is now at the mercy of faltering top-line growth and squeezed profit margins.

当年，联想为其标志性的收购支付了慷慨的代价，而今，它却处于营利增长难以保持、利润率遭到挤压的窘境。

One is the high profit margins you get from being the only company that sells the hardware linked to a good operating system.

其一是，作为唯一一家销售配置一顶级操作系统的硬件的公司，苹果公司所能获得的高利润率。

Earlier this year, the company's executives expected memory-chip prices to rebound around August or September, reviving profit margins.

今年早些时候，三星电子的管理层还预计内存芯片价格会在8、9月时出现反弹，公司利润率也会因此上升。

And therefore, the profit margins are going to be less than what we see in an Ebay type situation.

因此，它的利润相较于Ebay这类公司而言会相对少些。

The measure of progress is a business measure: like the number of sales, profit margins, or cost cuttings.

这种进度指标是业务指标：就像销售量、利润率或成本消减。