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- How General Mills Is Beating Rivals on Commodity Price Hikes
- I eat a heaping bowl of Cheerios just about every morning, so I bring home a box just about every week. Until lately, I've been faced with a problem â€" the box was so big I couldn’t fit it on the shelf of my cabinet. That has...
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Bunge Limited Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator instructions And we will go first to Christine McCracken from Cleveland Research. Christine McCracken – Cleveland Research Good morning. Alberto Weisser Good morning, Christine. Christine McCracken – Cleveland Research Alberto, can you talk about the current credit situation in Brazil and...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-23
- Restaurant Outlook: Better Food and Service = Better Sales
- Restaurant industry sales for 2004 are expected to reach a record of $440.1 billion, marking the 13th consecutive year of sales growth for the industry. Although certain sectors of the U.S. restaurant industry are mature, ongoing population growth and favorable consumer trends are expected to continue to provide a baseline...
- White papers 2005-01-12
- Comfort Zone
- From the executive summary: ‘In the past, customers more routinely accepted the passing through of commodity price increases. More and more, customers do not accept the direct pass-through of the price increases. Rising between the two opposing forces is a science that analyzes transactions and other customer data to more...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Diamond Foods, Inc. F2Q09 (Qtr End 01/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions The first question comes from the line of Tim Ramey – D.A. Davidson. Tim Ramey – D.A. Davidson You talked a little bit about using some of the incremental margin from lower nut prices to ramp up promotion and I’m sure...
- Earnings calls 2009-03-11
Additional Resources
- How to Win A Price War
- Price wars happen in many industries and they can kill your margins -- and make it more difficult to close business. A reader writes: I am on the sales team of a large company manufacturing flexible packaging material by the conversion of polymers. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance
- The Idea in Brief Most companies' strategies deliver only 63% of their promised financial value. Why? Leaders press for better execution when they really need a sounder strategy. Or they craft a new strategy when execution is the true weak spot. How to avoid these errors? View strategic...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- Signet Group plc Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. The question and answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. We'll take our first question now from Dahab Shahri [ph] from Dasco [ph]. Please go ahead. Unidentified Analyst Hi. A question on the like for like drop since early November. Do you have any...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-27
- 3M Co. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Your first question will come from the line Mike Judd with Greenwich Consultants. Please go ahead with your question. Michael Judd - Greenwich Consultant Yes good morning. I have a question on the Display & Graphics area; I am just wondering if...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-19
- Gold, Oil, and More: 5 Rules for Investing in Commodities
- Diversifying your portfolio with a natural resources mutual fund or ETF will lower its volatility, offer a hedge against the dollar and ? usually ? provide some protection against stock market losses. You’ve heard about the importance of diversifying ad nauseam, and commodities will also help diversify your portfolio....
- Articles 2009-10-16
- Understanding Pricing Issues
- In an era of increasing globalization, the costs of labor, transportation, and materials constantly fluctuate. This presents a problem because it creates new complexities and encourages new competition. This also presents an opportunity because those complexities challenge your organization to re-evaluate its pricing process regularly. Doing this will help you...
- Articles 2007-10-02
- ConocoPhillips Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Neil McMahon with Sanford Bernstein. Neil McMahon - Sanford Bernstein Hi, guys. Just wanted to run over a number of questions. The first is really on your refining number you mentioned that you were capturing more of the crack this...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-25
- Can Apple Have A Netbook Its Way?
- The rumors are flying that Apple is preparing a tablet form netbook, as noted Larry Dignan at our sister site ZDNet. And as my colleague Michael Hickins so correctly notes, the company has multiple good reasons to make the push. But I think ultimately it are doomed to failure, caught...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Cautionary Tale: How Starbucks Lost Its Edge
- Cautionary Tale: How Starbucks Lost Its EdgeRE: Cautionary Tale: How Starbucks Lost Its EdgeNatural occurrence. This happens to any organization as it goes through its life cycle. Can it be reversed? Maybe. If it returns to a management of coffee nerds instead of professional managers or legume enumerators and can...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- Game Theory Should Guide Pricing Strategy, But Be Sure To Pick The Right Playing Field
- The article asserts that the price cut that boosts the sales today will invariably change the industry one compete in tomorrow, and frequently that change is for the worse. The recent experience of a large building products manufacturer illustrates the problem. This company had been consistently profitable as a market...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- CanWest Global Communications F1Q08 (Qtr End 11/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Carl Bayard - Genuity Capital Markets. Carl Bayard – Genuity Capital Markets Couple of questions. First off, a question for John Maguire. I was just wondering if you have an estimate of what the clean EPS number would be if...
- Earnings calls 2008-01-10
- Green Mountain Coffee Brewing Profits in Single-Serve Cups
- Even in a recession, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has shown that consumers on a tight budget are willing to indulge on a fantastic cup of coffee -- by brewing their own java at home. The purveyor of specialty coffees and the Keurig single-cup brewing system has delivered nine consecutive quarters...
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- Taubman Centers Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Your first question is from Christine McElroy with Banc of America. Christine McElroy - Banc of America Securities Hi, good morning. Obviously your tenant sales growth numbers were very strong. Can you give us some color on how that growth trended...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-24
- Kraft: Caught in a Price Vise
- On Wednesday, I noted that Kraft and Sara Lee's disappointing most-recent quarters were due in part to their pricing strategies. The companies have raised prices to cover commodity costs that soared in the first half of last year, and have since come down. Retail prices, though, haven't....
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves a Weapon Against Price Spikes and Speculators
- Here's an interesting bent on the role of energy speculators and last summer's skyrocketing oil prices: using government-controlled strategic petroleum reserves to limit the power of speculators. According to a paper released Thursday by Rice University's James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy, (reported by Dow Jones via Rigzone and...
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
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