Sentences with phrase «despite aggressive marketing»

Despite aggressive marketing by the dairy industry, the verdict is still out as to whether or not milk really builds healthy bones.

Despite their aggressive marketing and dazzling promotional materials, Hard Rock lost out to the Rivers Casino, now under construction in Schenectady.

Not exact matches

As I've previously demonstrated using both U.S. and Japanese data, monetary easing is only reliably supportive to the financial markets when investors are already inclined to embrace risk (when they aren't, prices collapse despite aggressive and persistent easing, as they did in 2000 - 2002 and 2007 - 2009).

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Here, we take a look at the more recent June «Bond Market Group» minutes; the main concern was that, despite a functioning JGB market, there has been a notable increase in bid - ask spreads and general decrease in liquidity since the start of aggressive «QQE» last OcMarket Group» minutes; the main concern was that, despite a functioning JGB market, there has been a notable increase in bid - ask spreads and general decrease in liquidity since the start of aggressive «QQE» last Ocmarket, there has been a notable increase in bid - ask spreads and general decrease in liquidity since the start of aggressive «QQE» last October.

India's Asian Paints controls 40 % of the market for house paints in its home base, despite aggressive moves by such major multinationals as ICI, Kansai Paints, and Sherwin Williams.

It makes hard drives for computers and is faring well despite aggressive competition, but the market isn't giving it a lot of credit for its success.

The fund has been quite aggressive in its approach; but despite that it was able to better contain losses (as compared to its peers) during the market downturn of 2008 and 2011.

QUALIFICATIONS Team Leadership SDLC Application Life Cycle Development UX / UI Design Go - To market Product Launch QA Testing Requirement Gathering and Analysis Trouble Shooting and Debugging Product Roadmaps Financial Modeling Team Leadership Forecasting ACCOMPLISHMENTS Project Management * Delivered a fee refund tool that integrated deposit and consumer card technology on time despite the aggressive timeline.