BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Operational Gearing
- the ongoing financial operations of a company
Additional Resources
- Reuters Group Plc FY 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionYes. Okay, right, starting with Polo. We are looking for microphones, yes we are. Here in the front row, behind that... [ph]. Thank you. Polo Tang - UBS Thanks. It's Polo Tang from UBS. Just have a few different questions; you are highlighting how the business is different...
- Earnings calls 2008-03-06
- FTSE 350 REVIEW: Publishing and printing.
- Investors wanted cyclical exposure from publishers during 2003. Those companies whose operational gearing offered the prospect of rapid earnings growth saw their shares rise fastest, while safehouses such as Reed Elsevier and Taylor & Francis saw Investors wanted cyclical exposure from publishers during 2003. Those...
- Research articles 2004-01-16
- The collison course of business-continuity planning, operational risk and Basel
- Financial-services firms are realizing that a solid disaster- recovery plan can help reduce capital charges set aside for operational risk, so firms like JPMorgan Chase are focusing on an enterprise-wide risk management plan.With the Basel Accord gearing up to release minimum capital requirements that financial institutions must set aside to...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- CBA settles gearing nerves.
- Nov 05, 2002 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The Commonwealth Bank of Australia CBA has dismissed concerns over its double-gearing of capital. Currently, risk-weighted assets are not affected by the inclusion of shareholder funds attributable to life and fund management businesses...
- Research articles 2002-11-06
- Signet Group plc Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. The question and answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. We'll take our first question now from Dahab Shahri [ph] from Dasco [ph]. Please go ahead. Unidentified Analyst Hi. A question on the like for like drop since early November. Do you have any...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-27
- Enterprise Application Integration - Gearing Technology For Business Success
- Enterprise Application Integration EAI technology helps companies fix or avoid the mistakes of the re-engineering era, when companies introduced systems to solve operational problems or to automate manual processes. For years companies have struggled with information systems that were poorly aligned with overall business strategy and unable to evolve with...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- DOMINO'S PIZZA (DOM).
- Forty new store openings last year meant that Domino's missed chief executive Stephen Hemsley's target of 50. But now with 357 stores - and the infrastructure to service 500 - the company is well-placed to benefit further from its operational gearing Forty new store openings last...
- Research articles 2005-03-04
- Wolseley plc Interim Management Statement Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. The question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operators Instructions]. We will take now our first question from Tim [inaudible]. Please go ahead. Unidentified Analyst Hey, guys. This is Tim [inaudible] in Dublin. My first question is in relation to the stock...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-30
- Huge profits leap in store for J Sainsbury
- The speed of J Sainsbury's sales recovery has astonished the City. The supermarket group is already more than half way to its goal of adding [pound]2.5bn of sales during the three-year recovery plan it set in 2005. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating - or the...
- Research articles 2006-11-13
- Recruitment consultant springs to life.
- Spring Group, the recruitment consultants, marched 6% higher Wednesday, bringing its rise so far this year to 92.4%.A rise in UK job placements in June and July has helped sentiment, along with the company's [pounds sterling]12.7m ([euro]18m) acquisition of Best International Group in June. The acquisition...
- Research articles 2003-08-14
- Reed chief quits after nine months
- Ian Smith has resigned as chief executive of Reed Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch publishing group, less than nine months after taking over the role. Mr Smith was regarded as an unknown quantity to investors when he was appointed a year ago. He surprised the City in his only results presentation in...
- News items 2009-11-11
- GlaxoSmithKline Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionKevin Wilson - Citigroup Yeah, thank you this Kevin Wilson from Citigroup in London. Three questions, if I may, JP. Firstly, in the U.S., the 2% decline in sales in the quarter. Could you break out the volume and any price element you saw, and perhaps also comment...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-25
- BP Profit Halves, Beats Forecasts on Cost Cuts
- By Tom Bergin LONDON (Reuters UK) - BP beat third-quarter earnings forecasts by a big margin in a sign Chief Executive Tony Hayward's restructuring plans were delivering results, with cost cuts ahead of targets and oil and gas output up strongly. BP said third-quarter replacement cost net profit, which strips...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Shell chief says oil at $80 will halt rising debt
- Royal Dutch Shell has signalled that the steep rise in its debts is coming to an end, with its chief executive saying the group would not need to borrow any more money if oil remains at about $80 per barrel.The comments from Peter Voser, who took the helm at...
- External links 2009-11-24
- Fountain Weathers Floyd
- WASHINGTON, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 22, 1999-- Fountain Powerboat Industries, Inc. reports it has WEATHERED Hurricane Floyd with virtually no damage to its facilities or equipment. Floyd hit as the Company was gearing back up after Hurricane Dennis. While there is significant flooding in the Eastern half of North Carolina,...
- Research articles 1999-09-22
- CHINA: Construction plans for proposed 110,000 metric ton per year polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant, TOSOH CORP. [Japan] - Order #: 076404.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: Japan-based TOSOH CORP. is currently gearing-up to build a new polyvinyl chloride PVC plant in China. Construction plans under consideration call for building a factory with an installed production capacity of 110,000 metric tons per year. The new facility, of...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- TAIWAN: Joint venture construction plans for proposed 50,000 metric ton per year (mt/y) polycarbonate expansion project including possible subsequent 150,000 (mt/y) upgrade, CHI MEI [Taiwan] & ASAHI KASEI [Japan] - Order #: 098201.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: A 51:49 Taiwanese/Japanese joint venture which teams-up CHI MEI and ASAHI KASEI is currently involved in the construction of a 50,000 metric ton per year (mt/y) polycarbonate plant at Tainan, Taiwan. Operational start-up is said to be imminent and, the partnership...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- TAIWAN: Joint venture construction plans for proposed 50,000 metric ton per year (mt/y) polycarbonate expansion project including possible subsequent 150,000 (mt/y) upgrade, CHI MEI [Taiwan] & ASAHI KASEI [Japan] - Order #: 0107201.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: A 51:49 Taiwanese/Japanese joint venture which teams-up CHI MEI and ASAHI KASEI is currently involved in the construction of a 50,000 metric ton per year (mt/y) polycarbonate plant at Tainan, Taiwan. Operational start-up is said to be imminent and, the partnership...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
- CHINA/SINGAPORE: Construction plans for proposed $245,000,000 phenol, bisphenol and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) production capacity expansion projects, MITSUI CHEMICALS INC. [Japan] - Order #: 015402.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: Japan-based MITSUI CHEMICALS INC. is currently gearing-up to expand its Asian raw material and synthetic textile manufacturing capacities. According to Hiroyuki Nakanishi, MITSUI President, his company is planning to add facilities in Singapore that would manufacture some 200,000 tons per...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- TAIWAN: Construction plans for proposed $74,000,000 n-paraffins complex, CHINESE PETROLEUM CORP. (CPC) [Taiwan] - Order #: 098202.
- PROJECT OVERVIEW: The local CHINESE PETROLEUM CORP. CPC is currently gearing-up to build a new n-paraffins plant in Taiwan. Construction plans under consideration call for building a complex with an installed production capacity of 130,000 metric tons per year. The...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
