Sentences with phrase «city business group»

The leader of a prominent New York City business group said the lowered profits and bonuses stemmed from the added regulations placed on Wall Street in the past few years, as a response to the 2008 crash.

The study was commissioned by the Partnership for New York City, a leading city business group which opposes the bill.

The head of the Partnership for New York City business group also blasted de Blasio's proposal, saying the mayor was «prepared to throw the city's high earners under the bus.»

Not exact matches

They sent a survey to an email list of Kansas City residents that Howard had collected and conducted a focus group with six current loyal members to find out what they liked — and didn't — about Howard's current business model.

It's also part of the Alliance for Downtown New York, which is a city - sponsored group to promote downtown business growth.

«If you are thoughtful about how you handle the process, you're going to get a lot more money for your business,» says John Bird, president and co-founder of Albion Financial Group, a Salt Lake City - based investment and planning firm.

Less than 18 months after opening for business, this New York City - based company commands a heady $ 1.5 billion valuation and has raised $ 175 million from a group led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, General Catalyst Partners, Khosla Ventures and Thrive Capital.

Franchise owners in Seattle are still on track to be grouped with large businesses under the city's new minimum wage law.

While business groups in Indiana, such as the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, have come out decisively against the law, Indianapolis, the center of business conference activity in the state, is now fighting to make sure that businesses don't abandon the city's vital convention industry.

Prompted by a local magazine article addressing the problem, city councilor Steven Leal arranged a meeting with a group of local business owners, including the magazine's publisher, John Hudak, and Don Luria, of Cafe Terra Cotta.

«Show me a company with more than 10 percent of its business with one customer or more than half of its business in one industry and I'll show you a company at risk of being impacted by one company or one industry,» says Paul Weber, CEO of Entrepreneur Advertising Group in Kansas City, Missouri.

In addition to lenders, cities and other community groups sometimes offer no - or low - interest loans within redevelopment districts to encourage businesses to do such things as improve the façade of their storefront, improve the structural infrastructure of their place of business, or create jobs.

Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. Neporent was an associate and a partner in the Business Reorganization and Finance Group at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, a New York City - based law firm, from 1986 to 1998, where he did extensive work on behalf of Cerberus.

Prior to City Capital, Matt was Senior Vice President at Dresner Partners, where he co-led the firm's Family Business Group and was responsible for originating and executing M&A and capital raising engagements for family - owned businesses.

«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.&rgroup are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.&rGroup at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»

Kuwait City — April 21, 2015: MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab region, with the strategic partner Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives (ALJCI) and the Zain Group, announced that teams from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates made it to the winner's stage at the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition for best start - up innovative and creative business ideas in the Arab world among 75 contesting teams from 15 Arab countries.

I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.

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Matt Therian of Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm based in Greenwich, Conn., noted that Zipcar has a relatively «capital intensive» business model, but its strong brand image and its head start in the car - sharing market — where it competes in some markets with for - profit rivals and such nonprofit entrants as Chicago's iGo and the San Francisco area's City Car Share, in addition, of course, to traditional rental incumbents like Hertz HTZ, -9.08 % and Avis Budget Group CAR, -11.56 % — give it an inside track with investors.

The city has launched programs to target three groups in particular: small - business owners, filmmakers who are women and people of color, and students dreaming of getting into the business.

The group helped business owners plan 18 months in advance of the line's opening, while the city offered loans of up to $ 20,000 to cover construction - related losses.

The list of «Top 100 Companies» was created by the Orlando Sentinel and Best Companies Group and is a survey and award program designed to identify and honor the best places of employment in Orlando, benefiting the city's economy, its workforce and businesses.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Although school service represents a majority of The Nutrition Group's business, the company also owns commissaries in York and Ford City, Pa., as well as Youngstown, Ohio.

General Mills has been working to turn around its yogurt business and is starting to see slow signs of improvement but «there is more work to do,» CEO Jeff Harmening said during the CAGNY (Consumer Analyst Group) conference in New York City.

«HMSHost is extremely proud to be partnering with the most renowned group of chefs from Toronto, and soon we'll be able to introduce travellers to the most amazing dining experiences that exemplify this diverse and exciting city,» said HMSHost Vice President of Business Development Renee Tedesco.

But she ordered the city not to demolish any airport structures until at least 10 p.m. Wednesday to give lawyers for the state Department of Transportation as well as a group of pilots and business owners who use Meigs time to appeal her decision.

Frustrated with numerous delays in constructing a skate park near the city's downtown in recent years, a group of residents and city business owners came forward with a proposal to build a 10,000 - to 12,000 - square - foot temporary facility on a 7 acres next to the DuPage Children's Museum on Spring Avenue.

Allowing ride hailing apps like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City and infrastructure spending were also pushed by business groups, but workers» compensation legislation was considered especially key for Senate Republicans this year, who agreed to an extension of the millionaires tax rate expiring at the end of the year as well as a college tuition plan backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The city comptroller campaign of the former governor has spurred monied interests in labor and business to form separate independent expenditure groups with the purpose of ensuring his electoral defeat.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Sunday night told a group of statewide business leaders it was «not unreasonable» to ask New York City to pay more for transit given a $ 4 billion surplus.

Yet its donors include groups and individuals with wide - ranging business with the City of New York — including the American Federation of Teachers, developer Two Trees Management and supporters of the effort to ban horse carriages in Central Park.

Groups like this have no place in City Hall business.

The group has voluntarily disclosed its donors, and a POLITICO New York analysis last year found that more than 60 percent of them had other business pending before City Hall.

Cities in the South grew at double the rate of cities elsewhere; growth in the number of businesses in the same group was nearly double that of those in the North between 2004 andCities in the South grew at double the rate of cities elsewhere; growth in the number of businesses in the same group was nearly double that of those in the North between 2004 andcities elsewhere; growth in the number of businesses in the same group was nearly double that of those in the North between 2004 and 2013.

The group's single largest donor was another business - oriented organization, the Partnership for New York City, which gave just over $ 3 million.

Liu was joined by state Assemblyman Francisco Moya (D - Jackson Heights), City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D - Jackson Heights) and a group of business owners as he walked into sari shops -LSB-...]

(Brooklyn, NY)-- Today, a group of elected officials including Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblymember Robert Carroll, and Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Treyger joined City commissioners and community and business leaders to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to accelerate and streamline necessary construction on the BQE by authorizing «design - build» contracting.

The ethics board launched the non-criminal investigation in January of last year, alleging she acted improperly by accepting help from the Advance Group — a lobbying firm which has business dealings with the city.

Disclosure forms filed by the mayor's nonprofit group, the Campaign For One New York, show that it accepted numerous contributions from companies that did business with the city or wanted something from his administration.

Both the Business Council and the Partnership for New York City are affiliated with The Committee to Save New York, a coalition of private - sector unions, real - estate organizations and business groups that have backed Cuomo's fiscalBusiness Council and the Partnership for New York City are affiliated with The Committee to Save New York, a coalition of private - sector unions, real - estate organizations and business groups that have backed Cuomo's fiscalbusiness groups that have backed Cuomo's fiscal agenda.

The year began without Governor Cuomo, who abandoned the tradition of a State of the State speech on the first day of the session, in favor of a presentation on airport renovations in front of a group of business leaders in New York City.

The race between the incumbent and the 25 - year - old real estate business owner has been heating up over the last couple of weeks with Nunes garnering support from various gay rights groups and supporters, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan).

Prior to that, Cuomo also announced «the Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative,» a $ 25 million program to «bring together state and local government, non-profit and business groups to design and implement coordinated solutions to increase social mobility in ten cities with the highest poverty rates in the state.»

«Right now, cannabis represents around 250,000 job opportunities across the U.S. the employment opportunity is just huge... New York is a leading state in terms of industrial hemp, and there is no reason why New York can not become a leading state in regard to cannabis,» Arnaud Dumas de Rauly, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Blinc Group, a New York City - based vapor and cannabis business incubator, told Observer.

But Mr. Meeks is not totally alone in his support of the trade deal — though few other elected officials in New York have joined him in supporting it, the Kathryn Wylde, president of the business group Partnership for New York City, urged the Council not to pass its resolution in testimony today.

The Real Estate Board of New York and the Partnership for New York City, two powerful business groups, are throwing their weight behind the de Blasio administration's citywide zoning plan.

«The whole scheme of collecting big campaign contributions from people with business before the city is very unseemly,» said Dick Dadey, director of the watchdog group Citizens Union.

This group of legislators is very pro-tenant and not necessarily known for its enthusiastic support of New York City real estate development... The assumption that each and every political donation is made solely to further a business agenda is unsupported by the facts.»

The meeting's keynote speaker, Kathryn Wylde — president and chief executive of the nonprofit Partnership for New York City, a business group — said that paying for infrastructure projects in the region will require embracing new and innovative approaches.