Sentences with phrase «companies spend big»

Companies spend big money on gender diversity and inclusion training.

The company spent big on marketing, even sponsoring Toronto Maple Leafs left - winger Joffrey Lupul, and plastering its logo around the ACC during basketball games.

Right behind AARP, this company spends big dollars to sell you their term life insurance plan as a means to cover your final expenses.

Not exact matches

Big insurance companies spend a ton of money trying to make people feel they're the best option.

We want to spend our time with companies reaching large audiences and having big impact.

In 2015, the company spent $ 57.5 million to buy Mobil Capital Holdings, which owned and operated Saskatchewan's Big Sky Rail and Last Mountain Railway.

The five biggest insurance companies in the U.S. spent around $ 3 billion on advertising last year, which of course got passed on to customers.

«I spent my life dealing with nasty big companies,» he says.

Last spring, Salesforce (crm), which sells customer management and sales software to big companies, committed to spending $ 400 million over four years to host new software on AWS rather than in its own data centers.

It meant the company's biggest spending priorities wouldn't be on code, but on steel, machinery, and workers.

Whether you work for a start - up and are presenting to Angel investors or a big company presenting to the C - suite or Board of Directors, we spend a huge amount of our time making presentations.

Companies big and small are spending money in the region.

In the past few months, he's warned that some big startups will start to die off and that the free - spending by some companies is unsustainable.

No shocker: The two biggest U.S. wireless companies, AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ), spent the most money in the FCC's wireless spectrum auction.

The bigger impact for Boeing and other companies may come if a Trump Administration clamps down on defense spending.

Many high - growth companies fuelled by investment dollars were spending as if they were about to raise another big round, he says.

In the meantime, the company has had to spend more than $ 60,000 raising and rebuilding the bulkheads, installing reinforced pilings that can withstand big storm surges, raising electrical sockets up to waist level, and rebuilding its repairs warehouse with waterproof materials, like impermeable sheetrock and rigid foam insulation.

«Your individual biology, your health history and ever - fluctuating state of well - being, where you go, what you spend, how you sleep, what you put in your body and what comes out» — that rich - but - messy heap of information, more than anything else, is what's driving these companies together, write Erika Fry and Sy Mukherjee in their terrific cover story for Fortune's April 1 issue («Big Data Meets Biology»), which we're posting online today.

On a similar note, companies will have to spend big to develop a large amount of inventory.

Decmil Group founder and director Denis Criddle has spent another $ 500,000 buying shares in the contracting company, adding to a string of big trades by company directors includng his son Scott Criddle, Chris Ellison, John Rothwell and Enzo Gullotti over the past month, according to BNiQ data.

Whitman's continued slimming of HPE has stoked talk that it could now be an attractive acquisition target for private equity companies that have been emboldened to spend big money on technology providers.

And when there's no other compelling use for a company's cash, this is a better alternative than risky spending on takeovers or other big investments.

During the oilsands boom, Canada's biggest energy company spent money as if oil prices would always be north of $ 100.

«With the myriad of sophisticated attacks and the ad infinitum game of «cat and mouse» between hackers and security software vendors, we believe a big ramp in cybersecurity spending will continue in the coming years as «cyber warfare» heats up, adding to growth prospects at next - generation security software companies,» said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, in a recent note.

When those companies grow and spend big money in their data centers, Intel stands to benefit — as long as they keep buying from the semiconductor giant and not rivals like Nvidia.

The parent company of Clear Channel Communications, one of the nation's biggest radio station and outdoor advertising firms, saw its 2013 loss widen as political spending dropped without a presidential election to drive results.

Unilever's chief marketing officer, Keith Weed, threatened to reduce the company's ad spend online if the big tech platforms didn't clean things up.

Just as major food corporations sell processed foods that are loaded with added sugar and chemicals meant to keep people eating, big tech companies have been repeatedly accused of designing their apps to maximize the time people spend on them.

And while I spent the next decade as a senior executive in a number of successful companies, big and small, my only stint as a startup CEO ended in bankruptcy when the dot - com bubble burst.

And because Baker's exit strategy is to sell Nature's Cure to another consumer - products company, she believes that she ought to spend her time and capital on building assets that her acquirers would covet — namely, a big - time brand.

And just as major food corporations sell processed foods that are loaded with added sugar and chemicals meant to keep people eating, Turkle and other addiction experts say big tech companies have been repeatedly accused of designing their apps to maximize the time people spend on them.

Finally, Hunter suggested becoming something of your own insurance company when making big purchases, by taking the money you would have spent on the warranty and saving it in a separate account instead.

People who start companies tend to be goal - oriented: They'll set out to accomplish a big «it» — making a better product, hitting a huge revenue target, going public, whatever — and then spend all of their energy (and most of their waking moments) in its pursuit.

Eagle's Sassouni pointed out that since the big drug companies are losing billions of dollars every year to generic versions and have little to spend on their own research and development, they are looking to buy smaller biotechnology companies that are developing their own products.

«I realized working in a big company, I could spend my entire career on something, and have it not work out.»

Now Pfizer CEO Ian Read has to eat crow and prove to the market that his company can be great on its own, after pretty much spending the past two years saying it was a big deal or bust.

We didn't have the deep pockets to out - spend the Nikes, Disneys or other big companies but they didn't have our ability to react and adapt.

What sets the company apart is its ability to pounce on consumer trends early and its willingness to spend big to see its concepts through.

In addition to moving to a bigger office and boosting marketing of existing products, the team will spend some of the second - round cash to roll out several new products that will be their first step toward the company's future.

If you hold yourself to the standard of making a product that is so good people spontaneously recommend it to their friends, and you have an easy - to - understand business model where you make more than you spend on each user, and it gets better not worse as you get bigger, you may not look like some of hottest companies of today, but you'll look a lot like Google and Facebook.

Now valued at $ 45 billion, the private company is flush with cash and is spending big in an effort to expand into other devices.

Delaney said he sees two events unfolding: «The existing players... will adopt this rule, make changes to their business models as needed, and they'll work hard to keep every one of their customers because one of biggest costs that financial services companies have are what's called customer acquisition — meaning the money they spend for customers,» he said.

We now have companies spending $ 100's of millions in big data to predict their ideal customers, where they hang out, and how to further improve...

We now have companies spending $ 100's of millions in big data to predict their ideal customers, where they hang out, and how to further improve their companies.

Betting among veteran observers from banks and think tanks is that he will lean this time toward selective tax breaks and other measures designed to encourage companies to hire and invest, rather than another big round of direct spending.

You will make less buys, spend less on commissions, you will understand and follow more easily your holdings and, most important of all, you will cultivate true patience and the art of punching big when one of your companies stock price is suddenly very attractive.

Too often big companies and CEOs spend years, even decades, trying to reinvent flagging enterprises — wasting capital and profits accumulated through past glories — and presiding over shrinking empires.

Startups are constantly tackling problems, big and small — determining product - market fit, developing traction and early adopters, hiring the right talent, raising money (and figuring out how to spend that money)-- but the key is figuring out which ones matter most to the company's leaders at any given point in time.

The company's spending on content is now bigger than the budgets of all media companies combined in the second biggest market for content, the U.K., and is bigger than the content budgets of some of the biggest broadcasters in the U.S.

Deciding to spend money on a convention centre that depends so heavily on the revival of the automotive industry was obviously a tough call, given that two of the US car companies that used to be known as the Big Three filed for - then emerged from - bankruptcy last year.