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Internet sales tax would deal killing blow to small businesses

...competitor, you will soon disappear. The advantage could be lower prices; better products or services; lower manufacturing cost; better customer service; and so on.While those pushing for this bill cite an advantage online retailers have...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2013-05-25/internet-sales-t
Report: Illegal overtime on Apple assembly line

...likely to have an impact across the industry. Given Apple's unusually high margins, it's able to absorb higher manufacturing costs. But other electronics companies have very slim margins, and might need to look elsewhere to have their products...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-03-30/report-illegal-overtime-ap
Savannah River lab improves automakers' robots

...manufacturing capabilities that don't exist today. "It's an opportunity for the U.S. automakers to save a lot in manufacturing costs while developing wireless equipment that meets our requirements and establishes a new standard for all industrial...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/08/26/met_545819.shtml
Metro
Rising costs in China means higher prices for Americans

...which has long offered some of the world's lowest manufacturing costs, is losing its claim on cheapness as factories...2008 holiday season, largely because of rising manufacturing costs. Costs in China are climbing nationwide, but...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/02/24/bus_188523.shtml
Business
Body-sharing by Big Three lags in world

...Chrysler Group versus their Japanese competitors. The domestic automakers must quickly reduce their labor and manufacturing costs or they might not be in business over the long term, said group President Laurie Harbour-Felax. "If they don't...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/10/03/bus_98962.shtml
Business
Techbits: Biotech fines, Super Bowl ads and more

...response in chickens to Newcastle disease. Several biotechnology companies and university researchers are, to save manufacturing costs, splicing human genes into crops like tobacco and rice to produce drugs to fight cancer and other diseases. Those...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/02/06/liv_53727.shtml
Life & style
Vehicles must improve mileage

...the life of the vehicle to recover the increased manufacturing costs needed to meet the mileage targets, Mr. Mineta...the life of the vehicle to recover the increased manufacturing costs needed to meet the mileage targets, Transportation...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/08/24/met_4348.shtml
Metro
Techbits: Designer television, Hacking PSP and more

...BIO2005, a major industry conference next week in Philadelphia. Their message: India's huge market and low manufacturing costs make it ideal for multinational drug and agriculture companies. India's biotech industry remains small, generating...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/06/20/liv_456515.shtml
Life & style
Everthere brings on partner to help boost sales of carrier

...production of their product in America. Everthere has in recent months faced steady pressure to find ways to keep its manufacturing costs down, while the price of aluminum - the main material for the carrier - continues to surge. Both Mr. Pocisk...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/04/24/bus_451179.shtml
Business | Savannah River Site
Big wallet needed to buy one of those monster TVs

...monitors, still cost far more per-inch than plasma television, the main rival flat-panel technology. Higher manufacturing costs are the reason. But Michael Heiss, a consumer electronics consultant in Los Angeles, says liquid-crystal display...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/01/31/fin_441402.shtml
Finance