Bounces happen when the average selling price falls below a license holder's manufacturing cost, making the product unprofitable.
In the quarter, Sony took a 10.7 billion yen restructuring charge as it has cut jobs, shed unprofitable products and closed factories.
About 60,000 New Yorkers buy individual policies (as opposed to group coverage) from Empire because no other insurer sells the unprofitable product.
How fond has Mr. Cornstein become of the unprofitable product he was tapped to reinvent?
With money tight and profits slim, companies that once tried to match competitors in all areas are having to jettison unprofitable products.
In some cases, it is raising prices or eliminating unprofitable products.
Rather than relying only on detailed analysis to find unprofitable products, Amazon also created an electronic form that employees can fill out to describe problem products.
Operations continued until 1926, when shipping expenses made the product unprofitable.
It was reported that some very large ezboards paid the fixed price for CSC Blue, which ultimately proved to be an unprofitable product.
He planned to cut unprofitable products, reduce debt accumulated during the 1990s acquisition spree, and cut overhead.