1.   By joining with Strawberries, Bloomberg said he gets four times the floor space for roughly the same occupancy costs.

2.   At Nortel, the move of offices from three Toronto locations to a renovated former factory in Brampton, Ontario, cut occupancy costs by two-thirds.

3.   During the last recession, corporations caught on to the huge dent that occupancy costs made in their budget and worked at getting those costs down.

4.   Executives at Deutsche Bank said that owning the building would enable them to cut their occupancy costs.

5.   Technology requirements lift the occupancy costs of brokerage firms well above those of most manufacturing companies, Raziano said.

6.   The company also announced that it would allow franchisees to purchase rather than rent restaurant buildings, which would allow them to lower occupancy costs.

7.   The survey said all four cities surveyed in Britain expect average occupancy costs to increase.