41. A big piece of it, ironically, is the price competition Commerce brought to the market. 42. A decade of intense price competition has not contained cost. 43. A new system forced price competition where there had been none, and that soon changed the financial landscape in ways no one had expected. 44. A lower dollar and ongoing price competition on trans-Atlantic routes hurt the performance of passenger operations, KLM said. 45. Above all, the most important part of competition, price competition, vanishes from the equation. 46. After all, price competition is typical in maturing industries, as the battle for market share increases and growth slows. 47. But all those acquisitions also saddled the company with tremendous debt as price competition became increasingly intense. 48. But given the intense price competition in telecommunications, Suria wrote, lucrative cash flows from customers are no sure thing. 49. But even when the cattle trade moved beyond the yards to the feedlots, price competition remained fierce. 50. But its IIE division in some ways is trapped in a commodity business, with intense price competition and narrow margins. |