margin up

The same holds for Albertsons, which “also recognizes that when its stores face less competition, it can take the opportunity to raise prices and ‘margin up’,” reads a related passage.

Lower ocean freight costs drove the company's merchandise margin up by 235 basis points over the year earlier.

Figures published by BP, which owns a number of refineries in Europe and the US, shows its own measure of refining profits, the ‘Refining Marker Margin’, up from $7.7 dollars per barrel to $35.7 over the past year.

He has also drawn up plans for five battery plants and cut deals with unions to keep streamlining its European operations - side-stepping potential labour conflicts and pushing the company's operating profit margin up to around 10%.

Republicans will control 23 seats by more than a 10-point margin, up from 14 seats on the current map; Democrats get 13 such seats, three more than they’ve had in recent elections.