Much of the motivation behind the efficiency drive rests on the fact that business can no longer simply raise prices to improve profitability.

The result of the efficiency drive is that Televisa now has some $1 billion in cash to use in making acquisitions.

The results were far better than expected because a yearlong efficiency drive sharply cut costs even as sales grew.

A major efficiency drive was launched to cut operating costs.

The feuds, the efficiency drives - in fact, the companies themselves - have largely been invisible to everyone but investors.

Transparency is key to our efficiency drive, and will enable the public to help us to deliver better value for money in public spending.

Livingstone denied the allegations and stated the appointments were a "necessary efficiency drive."

This is down from the 2009 total (£22 million on 695 staff) following an efficiency drive which saw a number of voluntary redundancies.

Let us take, for example, energy efficiency drives.

For a country such as Spain, with youth unemployment at more than 40%, a radical efficiency drive is only going to result in social unrest.