BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Discount Allowed

  • the amount by which the seller agrees to reduce his or her price to the customer

Additional Resources

Two-Wholesale-Price Contracts: Push, Pull, And Advance-Purchase Discount Contracts
The allocation of inventory ownership affects the inventory availability in a supply chain, which in turn determines the supply chain performance. In this paper, the publisher consider a supplier-retailer supply chain in which the supplier starts production well in advance of the selling season, and the retailer is offered two...
Tags: Supply Chain, St. Louis, Supplier, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
White papers 2006-12-22
Discount Drug Mart enhances store base
MEDINA, Ohio -- Extensive remodeling of two outlets and a store relocation allowed Discount Drug Mart to significantly enhance its positioning last year. The stores that were remodeled were enlarged in the process from 20,000 to 24,500 square feet, allowing them to conform to Discount Drug Mart's prototype. Thus...
Tags: Discount Drug Mart Inc.
Research articles 2006-05-01
ISRAEL: SAFRA GROUP INTERESTED IN ISRAEL DISCOUNT BANK.(Brief Article)
The Safra group will agree to buy all of Israel Discount Bank on the condition that it is allowed to merge it with The First International Bank of Israel, United Mizrahi Bank and Union Bank, Joseph Safra told Minister of Finance Silvan Shalom on Monday, GLOBES reported....
Tags: Israel Discount Bank Ltd.
Research articles 2002-07-17
Times Reader Teaser: Subscribe To E-Edition, Get Discount On Samsung Netbook
Considering the circulation boost newspapers have gotten this year from their e-paper offerings, the New York Times is hopes to attract new subs through a cross-promotion effort with Samsung. According to the NYT’s pitch, if you order a one-year subscription to Times Reader 2.0, the company will give you...
Tags: E-paper, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Netbook, Computer, NYT, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, New York Times, David Kaplan
External links 2009-11-24
Alliance's discount deals approved.
Jun 04, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Australia's regulatory authority has approved a discount airfare proposal from the Star Alliance group of airlines. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC ruled that the Alliance's airlines, which include Air New Zealand and...
Tags: alliance, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Strategy
Research articles 2003-06-04
IRA valued without discount for anticipated tax liability.(individual retirement accounts)
A had two IRAs at the time of her death. Under the trust agreements, the IRAs were not transferable; however, they both allowed the underlying marketable securities to be sold. On Form 706, United States Estate (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Return, A's estate E reduced the...
Tags: asset, estate, FINANCE, income, Sec, Taxes
Research articles 2006-08-01
Discount plan by NTT DoCoMo in February 2005.(Japan)(Brief Article)
NTT DoCoMo Inc., the mobile phone operator in Japan, has stated that it will launch a new discount service in February 2005. The mobile Internet service termed i-mode is one of the popular services of NTT. The customers of the company will be allowed to...
Tags: NTT DoCoMo Inc.
Research articles 2004-12-01
Discount plan by NTT DoCoMo in February 2005.(Japan)(Brief Article)
NTT DoCoMo Inc., the mobile phone operator in Japan, has stated that it will launch a new discount service in February 2005. The mobile Internet service termed i-mode is one of the popular services of NTT. The customers of the company will be allowed...
Tags: NTT DoCoMo Inc.
Research articles 2004-12-01
Transmedia Europe and Transmedia Asia Pacific sign definitive cooperation agreement with Countdown Holdings; Companies allowed access to six million cardholders in Europe and Asia
LONDON--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 27, 1996--Transmedia Europe Inc. (NASDAQ:TMNE), and Transmedia Asia (NASDAQ: TMNA) today announced they have signed a definitive cooperation agreement with Countdown Holdings Ltd., a London-based, privately-held, international provider of membership discount services.The agreement provides TMNE and TMNA complete marketing access to Countdown's six million member database, allowing them...
Tags: agreement, Business Wire, cardholder
Research articles 1996-08-27
Estate valuation discounts for partial interest in realty.
A half interest in realty in an estate gets a valuation discount. A father owned a 50% share of some lands. His kids owned the other half. When he died, his estate said the value of his 50% stake was less than 50% of the value...
Tags: estate, FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Investment, Taxes, valuation
Research articles 1997-05-30
Discounters rush to grab Woolies inheritance
When Hussein Lalani, co-founder of 99p Stores, the discount retailer, heard Woolworths had entered administration a year ago next week, he knew there wasn't much time to lose. "My brother and I jumped in the car and we basically spent three days just driving around London with a camera and...
Tags: Woolworths
News items 2009-11-20
April 15 deadline looms: Sponsors struggle over contribution size; Corporations put up about $10 billion so far; ultimate amount rests with Congress.(News)
Byline: Gregory Crawford Corporate pension fund contributions this year could surpass last year's nearly $50 billion. But that figure would be much lower if Congress allows a higher discount rate than currently allowed. (see story on Page 2) ...
Tags: asset, company, contribution, pension fund, pension plan, stock, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2004-04-05
Tidewater Inc. F2Q08 (Qtr End 9/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Earnings Call Excerpt Tidewater Inc. TDW F2Q08 Earnings Call October 26, 2007, 9:00 AM CT Executives Dean E. Taylor - Chairman, President and CEO J. Keith Lousteau - CFO, EVP and Treasurer Joseph M. Bennett - Sr. VP, Principal Accounting Officer and Chief IR Officer Stephen W....
Tags: Tidewater Inc.
Earnings calls 2007-10-28
How Big Lots Is Turning the Real Estate Bust into Its Own Boom
Bankrupt merchants have made ghost towns out of strip malls. Big Lots sees that as the best opportunity in years. When the financial markets meltdown sent the U.S. economy into a tailspin late last year, Rob Claxton, senior vice president of marketing for discount retailer Big Lots,...
Tags: Retail Company, Store, Big Lots, Real Estate, Retail, Business Operations, Commercial Real Estate, Branding, Expansion, Rent, Melanie Warner
Articles 2009-09-28
Trying to woo partners, cloud computing vendors show them the money
Computerworld - One of the early promises of software-as-a-service and cloud computing was that it would allow startups to directly market their Web services while skipping the expensive, lengthy process of creating an ecosystem of partners and resellers. "Building the channel" was an antiquated strategy, they argued, a legacy of...
Tags: Google Inc., cloud computing, Salesforce.com Inc.
News items 2009-08-27
A Short-Term Model Of The Fed's Portfolio Choice
What would happen if the Federal Reserve were to change the assets in its portfolio? Suppose that instead of using open-market operations in Treasury securities to increase the monetary base, the Fed were to engage in open-market operations in private securities or to use discount loans via a mechanism that...
Tags: Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bank Of Philadelphia, Asset Management, Security, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2003-04-01
Traditional format remains core focus - Wal-Mart stores
As Wal-Mart churns out new supercenters at a record pace, many observers have questioned the future course of the retailer's flagship discount store business. The traditional store that put the company on the map and allowed it to expand in markets large and small since the first store opened in...
Tags: sales, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Research articles 1999-10-01
GM's sales soar 41%
DETROIT -- General Motors Corp.'s sales soared 41 percent in June to their highest monthly total in nearly 19 years thanks to a heavily promoted discount that allowed customers to buy cars and trucks at the employee rate, new sales figures showed Friday. In response, DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler...
Tags: General Motors Corp., SALES
Research articles 2005-07-02
Usury update: where the line is drawn between legal and illegal interest in Arkansas
The Arkansas Constitution has long baffled both pundits and laypersons alike trying to dispel what amount of interest is legal and what is not. Amendment 60 to the Arkansas Constitution, passed in 1982, states that the maximum amount of interest allowed in this State is five percent per year over...
Tags: Arkansas, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE
Research articles 2006-11-13
When Bank Defaults Are a Good Thing
Felix Salmon submits: One of the problems with the banking bailout in both the UK and the US is that it’s set up a massive moral hazard trade. Bank debt is trading at a massive discount to face value, and investors have been buying it in the hope and...
Tags: Financial, Felix Salmon
External links 2009-05-27
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