The company targets a premium market position with somewhat higher base costs coupled with nominally higher performance-per-dollar and some specialized tools and services.
Increases to our asset construction, maintenance and depreciation costs, as well as additional compliance requirements around health and safety and seismic standards are pushing our base costs up.
Claimant solicitors feared, as it turned out justifiably, that both of these reviews would result in recommendations and/or decisions that claimant solicitors' base costs would be significantly reduced.
Volatile commodity prices have caused turbulence for retailers, whose base costs have risen along with the soaring price of goods such as crude oil, plastics, and metals.
