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Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:09 PM

How they control cost: 23-August-08

Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector company that is highly profitable but still under increasing cost pressures: 1. It has always been very prudent about costs. It has set world records in low project execution costs. 2. It has taken...
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Friday, August 22, 2008 10:01 PM

How they control cost: 22-August-08

Fresenius, the health-care company best known for its kidney dialysis products and services: It exploited the exchange rate (strong euro, weak dollar) to make a major acquisition - U.S. drugmaker APP Pharmaceuticals - for $3.7 billion. [Click here for...
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Friday, August 15, 2008 7:54 PM

How they control cost: 15-August-08

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., financial firm with exposure to the mortgage market collapse: 1. It is seeking to sell about $14 billion of its $40 billion in property related assets by the end of the year (it has a $29.4 billion commercial mortgage portfolio...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:35 PM

How they control cost: 12-August-08

Multinationals like Cisco, Motorola, General Electric, and Hewlett-Packard: They are increasing R&D initiatives in India because: a) The quality and experience of India's huge technical workforce is rising supplemented by an influx of returnees...
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 4:59 PM

How they control cost: 09-August-08

Gap, apparel chain: 1. It has reduced inventory by a third 2. It has reduced the time it takes to move clothes from concept to rack from 12 to 9 months. 3. It has reduced TV ads [Click here for full story at Businessweek.com] Lower inventory + less time...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:42 PM

How they control cost: 05-August-08

German Companies in China, where rising energy costs, stricter environmental rules, the elimination of many tax incentives, a dearth of skilled workers and the increasing strength of the yuan against the dollar and 8-percent inflation rate have all pushed...
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Friday, August 01, 2008 10:10 PM

How they control cost: 01-August-08

Cadbury, the confectionary group: 1. It unveiled its Vision into Actioncost-reduction programme in June 2007. It will take whatever measures are necessary in costs, prices, organisation structure and business portfolio to deliver its performance commitments...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:36 PM

How they control cost: 31-July-08

Tribune Co., media group comprising eight newspapers, more than 50 Web sites, 25 television stations, the Chicago Cubs baseball team and real estate and other holdings, unsettled by companies abandoning newspaper ads at an accelerating pace because of...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:33 PM

How they control cost: 29-July-08

Tata Motors, seeking to change the manner in which people in rural and semi-urban India travel has staked its reputation to make a supercheap car, the Nano with a price originally set at $2,500: 1. It will fit the car with a smaller 623cc-engine that...
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Friday, July 25, 2008 8:01 PM

How they control cost: 25-July-08

Lloyd's of London, the venerable specialty insurance market that brings together underwriters and brokers to insure everything, but with claims processing stuck in the 17th century that needed to be digitalized: 1. It sought out those members who...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:25 PM

How they control cost: 23-July-08

PSA Peugeot Citroen, Europe's second-biggest carmaker: 1. It has instituted a savings program to reduce overhead and fixed production costs by 30 percent by 2010 2. It cut 10,300 positions in western Europe last year, 80 percent of them in France...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:34 AM

How they control cost: 22-July-08

Barry Callebaut AG, the world's biggest contract manufacturer and supplier of bulk chocolate, fighting a 40 percent jump in cocoa prices: 1. It uses its scale of operations to make products almost 20 percent cheaper than smaller companies 2. It has...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:13 PM

How they control cost: 17-July-08

Host Hotels & Resorts Inc., the owner of about 130 properties in the U.S. and Europe: 1. It may accelerate share buybacks because of the drop in its stock price 2. It is reducing restaurant hours 3. It is reducing staff 4. It is scaling back discretionary...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:55 PM

How they control cost: 16-July-08

Western companies, plagued by rising costs of moving work to India for the labor-cost reductions are seeking more predictable costs in a time of volatile currency and salary shifts: 1. They are increasingly outsourcing their offshore operations to Indian...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:55 PM

How they control cost: 15-July-08

General Motors, the world's biggest carmaker, facing falling U.S. sales and Wall Street's demands for cutting some of its eight brands and more action to stem its losses: HR cuts 1. It will slash white-collar salaried worker costs by 20% by cutting...
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