December 14th 2007 Dr. Zdinak's Precision Aesthetics has agreed to participate in the first multi-center investigation of the clinical benefits of carboxytherapy. Dr.Zdinak will be sharing the results of her clinical research with prominent physicians in the Los Angeles area to establish treatment protocols for physicians worldwide.
BP plc (ADR) (NYSE: BP) reported a decline in its profit for the first quarter. The company's underlying replacement cost profit dropped around 20 percent year-over-year to $2.58 billion, versus analysts' estimates of $1.28 billion.Its...P today reported its results for first quarter of 2015. Underlying replacement cost profit for the quarter was 2.6 billion compared with 3.2 billion for the same period in 2014 and 2.2 billion for.
A manufacturing company had annual sales of $250 million. Its quality department calculated the total cost of repair, rework, scrap, service calls, warranty claims and write-offs from obsolete finished goods. This aggregated cost, called Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), amounted to 20% of their annual sales. A 20% COPQ implied that during one day of each five-day workweek, the entire company spent its time and effort making scrap, which represented a loss of approximately $ 100,000 per day. Experts have estimated that Cost of Poor Quality typically amounts to 5-30% of gross sales for manufacturing and service companies.