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Topic: Gross margins

Related:
  Gross Pictures    Gross Anatomy  
  Gross stuff    Gross  
  Profit Margin    Gross Domestic Product  
  Gross Movies    Box office gross  
  Gross National Product    Paul Gross  
  Margin  

 
 
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Favorite website(s):E*TRADE
Most admires:Warren Buffet,  King Gillette
Bad point(s):Greedy
Politics:Capitalist
Currently has on their coffee table:Economist
Dream job(s):CEO,  Tax Collector,  Banker
Favorite activity(s):Stamp collecting
Interest(s):Economics
Likes to wear:Business suits
Favorite online activity(s):Finding ringtones for their phone
Ultimate fantasy(s):Getting off welfare,  Finding a job,  Bankruptcy
Worst habit(s):Wasting money
Favorite quote(s):"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
 
 
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

 Gross margins declined in the water tank divisions due to major weakness in the markets and intensified competition.
John Fielding,
CEO

Gross margins in the Construction Services Division were down slightly in the second fiscal quarter this year versus the second fiscal quarter last year although revenues were higher due to a significant portion of the increased volume coming from lower margin subcontract work.
Gross margins as a percentage of sales decreased to 16 percent for the first fiscal quarter of fiscal 2003 from 20 percent in the same period a year ago.
Gross profit margins improved as a result of reduced unit production costs from higher volume levels and improved distribution efficiencies gained from our new manufacturing facilities.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

 Gross margins will be hurt by a decline in the average selling unit price of the Macintosh computers but will be balanced out by the higher margins from G3 sales and a new line of PowerBook notebook computers.
Gross margins in the AST Services Division increased from 14.
Gross margins in the AST Services Division increased from 8.
 
 
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