Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

CICC underwrites green bonds, and Bohai offers low-interest loans to emissions-cutting manufacturers. China’s largest bank works directly with EV manufacturers such as Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology, Zeekr, and Li Auto to provide one-stop loan application, facility, interview, and issuing services.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Risk Management Manufacturing Banking 52

The Finance Weekly

JULY 14, 2024

It extends beyond conventional budgeting, planning, and forecasting processes which usually span a year, and concentrates mainly on financial goals and key initiatives that are 5-10 years or more into the future. Manufacturing – zeroes in on equipment, machinery acquisitions, upkeep, and production floor needs to align with the LRP vision.

Planning 52

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

In the manufacturing-centered twentieth century, it took decades for companies like GE and Ford to scale up, but they also stayed at the top for long periods, before declining over decades. Advice on concentrating your portfolio and having a margin of safety, both value investing nostrums, may work with the former but not with the latter.

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Corporate Finance Valuation Investments Finance 123

PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

All in, the company sells over 35 SKUs of skincare and bath and body products that are “formulated with pure, active, highly concentrated vitamins, minerals and botanicals.”. Herbivore identifies as a prestige skincare brand that sells a lot more than just soap.

Concentration 43

Concentration Manufacturing Leverage Marketing 43

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 4, 2025

And I also wanted to make sure that I was going somewhere that would really leverage the quantitative skills that I was acquiring at Chicago. I mean certainly there’s still like a huge, a huge concentration in kind of, you know, the Bay area and then kind of New York, Boston area. Barry Ritholtz : So that makes a lot of sense.

Banking 52

Banking Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Marketing Manufacturing 52

PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

The Swiss Army knife’s manufacturing process is said to be so meticulous that only one in 10,000 knives is ever returned. Brands will develop one over time as Amazon hones its manufacturing capabilities and becomes a private-label competitor. Its design is so unique that it’s on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Retail 49

Retail Profit and Loss Sales Manufacturing 49

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Thought of then as an April Fool’s joke, these Wi-Fi enabled plastic buttons have since evolved to become a convenient way to replenish more than 350 consumables across multiple grocery categories – now including third-party manufacturers that want to integrate the capability into their products.

Sales 54

Sales Concentration Marketing Manufacturing 54

PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2016

The latest Nielsen study tells us that most people only use 27 of them – and concentrate 80 percent of their activity in five – Facebook, Google Play, Google Search, YouTube and Messenger. . Alexa is leveraging the power of voice to enable contextual and conversational commerce to happen.

Sales 42

Sales Retail Leverage Concentration 42

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

00:16:05 [Speaker Changed] We set up a co CIO model to deal with that very issue so that we could attract the best talent, leverage the skills and capabilities of Carl and myself, allowing us to have more time both to invest. 00:22:29 [Speaker Changed] So less concentrated exposure. You don’t take that approach.

Healthcare 64

Healthcare Investments Construction Concentration 64

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But that means if you’re in a company that, at the end of the day, manufactures product, the people in those groups tend to be people that move a lot of the product because that’s the business of the company. You want to be…I think you said you want to be at least the average of the people that you’re surrounded with.

Planning 130

Planning Profit and Loss Communication Education 130

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So if it’s, for example, a strategy tracking a Nasdaq Index, or an S&P, or a MSCI, typically, you leverage an index that is already available through the index providers. I mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there. So I think many of these car manufacturers can see the writing on the wall.

Investments 64

Investments Marketing Numbers Risk Management 64

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

So you would see pretty high concentrations of, you know, $100 million, $200 million, $300 million, all essentially sitting on a single balance sheet of the bank. Because you can’t lever it, you can’t lend it six times leverage today when the rates are 11 percent versus 6, right? KENCEL: So, now, leverage is lower.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 59

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Banking 59

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Out the investor went, proudly showing the world the newest innovation in clothing design and manufacturing all his own. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure. He leveraged existing infrastructure and built on top of it. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, even in the land of bitcoin.

Currencies 71

Currencies Financial Systems Concentration Securities 71

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The manufactured crisis over Taiwan and Chinese “aggression” are now the stated reasons for military buildups in South Korea and Japan (and elsewhere, such as Guam). SK Hynix’s chief marketing officer Kevin Noh said last month that the company might be forced to sell its manufacturing operations in China.

Manufacturing 100

Manufacturing Economics Investments Securities 100

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And they essentially take companies as varied as tire manufacturers and industrial producers and retailers, and find intelligent ways to use technology to make these companies more efficient, more productive, more profitable. The parallels are that there is a concentration of interest. Much more involved than a consulting firm.

Technology 52

Technology Manufacturing Investments Education 52

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

So we all try shoving what money we do have into the goods pipeline and goods have to be manufactured and shipped. 00:44:37 [Speaker Changed] I just read an article somewhere online recently about used car prices are still elevated and it’s directly related to semiconductors manufacturing. Were closed for a year or so.

Budgeting 59

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. RITHOLTZ: Manufacturing, Ford as an example, sure.

Treasury 52

Treasury Retail Economics Entertainment 52

The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

Barry Ritholtz : And footnote Roger Lowenstein, when genius failed, is so instructive, not just because of the things you are referring to, failing to learn from history, the danger of leverage and, you know, tiny inefficiencies. Because they tend to be overly leveraged and with inflation, their debts tend to get inflated away.

Math 52

Math Finance Investments Marketing 52

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

This could be explained by several factors including insufficient concentration, improper formulation and/or amount of PVP-I, inadequate duration of exposure, inappropriate method of administration, and mucociliary clearance of PVP-I from the nasal cavity. The NY Empire State Manufacturing Index sank to -32.9 As aforementioned, 0.45–10%

Concentration 130

Concentration Economics Numbers Manufacturing 130