Word: profitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strategy could backfire by cutting profit margins, but Blockbuster is committed. It invested $50 million in a revenue-sharing experiment last year and was thrilled with the results. The company has moved quickly. Last quarter 80% of tapes were obtained via revenue sharing, up from 25% in the first quarter...
...shaking your head. You're reluctant to pay today's high prices for stocks that so far have delivered little or no profit. After all, Amazon.com the online bookseller, is up 312% this year on strong sales growth--but still without earnings. And Broadcast.com which streams music and video over the Net, blew from 18 to 61 in its first six days of trading through last Friday, also with zero earnings. If you invest now, will you play the trend or get played for a chump...
...profit corporation that receives reliable revenues, employs sharp-penciled "gatekeepers" who only grudgingly dole out "care" and cannot be sued may be an investor's dream, but it is a patient's worst nightmare. EDWARD K. GARRISON Chicago...
...Flint, GM is trying to boost profit margins by outsourcing, a source of contention. But the company needs to make great leaps, not incremental steps. Analyst Stephen J. Girsky of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter estimates that to get into fighting shape, GM would have to close three assembly plants, eliminating as many as 34,500 blue-collar jobs. Try negotiating that. And the company needs to close about 2,300 dealerships...
Brown and Galotti will enjoy profit participation to start with, which will eventually turn into equity stakes. The partnership will produce journalistic specials of some sort for ABC (also owned by Disney) that will feature Brown doing interviews. Beyond that, details are sketchy, perhaps even to the principals themselves. But Weinstein makes the whole thing sound easy: "The idea is to marry the two cultures together and say, 'This is a brilliant story that takes place in England; we'll give that to Anthony Minghella [director of The English Patient]. This is something that's feminist and sexy; that sounds...