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  • noun Alternative spelling of markup.

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Examples

  • Assuming about a 90 percent mark-up for Gap, a 12 percent marketing spend to drive $22 million in sales would cost around $2.4 million.

    Robert Ball: Groupon-Gap Deal: What Was The True Cost? Robert Ball 2011

  • Assuming about a 90 percent mark-up for Gap, a 12 percent marketing spend to drive $22 million in sales would cost around $2.4 million.

    Robert Ball: Groupon-Gap Deal: What Was The True Cost? Robert Ball 2011

  • Also, important to note, and adding on the notion that you are paying for service and ambiance, is the high mark-up of alcoholic beverages is partially to offset the slowing of table turnover due to alcohol consumption (but a lot of it is taxes and licenses, a petition at my local brewery against futher increases in tax on serving alcohol suggested that 44% of beer prices are tax in michigan).

    My Guess on Take-Out, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Aides to the governor hope prices might fall, however, because, as the state would cut the mark-up it applies to liquor prices from 69 percent to 50 percent.

    McDonnell outlines new scaled-back, retail-only ABC plan Anita Kumar 2011

  • Opening a high-end restaurant for take-out only would require you to charge a high mark-up on the food in order to make up for the lost profits on wine.

    My Guess on Take-Out, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Going to cover some basic mark-up, and talk about why RDFa is a good thing.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Mia 2009

  • As soon as we start to ask when exactly, and at what level, the rate of growth of credit aggregates or asset prices start to become risky, or how large a leverage ratio and how high a risk mark-up are sustainable, we have no clear answers.

    Central Banker Seeks Revolutionary Ideas Mojm 2011

  • The intermediary firm was buying alumina from Alcoa and then selling it to Alba at a mark-up, a person familiar with the matter said.

    Kickback Probe at Alcoa Heats Up Dionne Searcey 2011

  • If you're already publishing HTML, you can add RDFa mark-up then get flexible publishing models - different departments can keep publishing data in their own way, a central website can go and request from each of them and create its own database of e.g. jobs.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Mia 2009

  • Looking at it another way, let's compare the costs to a typical ad budget of 10-12 percent of sales after, taking into account cost mark-up.

    Robert Ball: Groupon-Gap Deal: What Was The True Cost? Robert Ball 2011

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