Sentences with phrase «for years these companies»

For years the company only sold its products in Ontario, but it slowly started to push outwards in 2003, when it began to distribute in Alberta.

For years the company has been successful at maintaining its number one position, thanks to strong footprints in the two largest dairy categories in Indonesia: drinking milk products and other dairy (specifically, condensed milk).

For years the company has touted Ovaltine, its chocolate - milk mix, as a vitamin and mineral supplement.

For the year the company had a net loss excluding write downs.

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For years, the company blithely brushed off government concerns about privacy and competition, but that appears to be changing.

GE is piggybacking along to the tune of at least $ 2 billion a year in extra equipment sales — a significant boost even for a company of GE's scale.

The company, which started out primarily as a flash - sales site for high - end women's fashion, has diversified its product offerings over the past few years to include houseware items and travel packages.

API estimates that the total cost for the first year of compliance of the new rule would be $ 343,000 per company.

But, in recent years, chatbots, or «bots» for short, have morphed into exceptionally intelligent computer programs able to assist companies with essential tasks ranging from marketing and human resources functions to sales efforts.

It may not sound like the most exciting topic, but it's fundamental to business and will continue to be a core focus for years to come, because the sheer volume of information flowing through companies today is incredible.

Someone can work at a large company for years and never meet the CEO.

Three years after opening the Seattle Coffee Company, the couple sold it to Starbucks for around $ 90 million.

Among the wave of financial technology companies attempting to challenge the hegemony of Canada's Big Five banks are «robo - advisers,» such as Wealthsimple and WealthBar, whose platforms help clients create and maintain portfolios of mostly passive investments, such as exchange - traded funds, for fees in the neighbourhood of 1 % of assets per year.

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

My dad worked for 35 years at Stelco in Hamilton, before watching a once great company dragged into bankruptcy, in large part because of a pension plan it could no longer fund.

The average VC deal for among women - led companies last year was worth $ 4.5 million — compared to $ 6.1 million in 2015 and $ 5.1 million in 2014.

Jackie Stone, CMO of MiMedia, a personal cloud storage company, told Business News Daily: «I've worked in digital media for more than 20 years, and as we become more connected, more people have decided that staying «on» 24/7 is socially acceptable — and it's not.»

The company's total revenue for the most recent fiscal year (in millions of dollars) and the percentage change compared to the previous fiscal year.

A global oil company executive recently predicted that petroleum's dominance of world energy would last only another 20 years; other ways of providing energy, particularly for transport, were about to emerge.

The Desmarais family kicked off the new year by snapping up Performance Sports Group, the company behind the Bauer and Easton brands, for $ 575 million with partner Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd..

ZocDoc gets paid a flat fee of $ 3,000 per doctor per year, so this national expansion will also be a major revenue source for the company.

David Vieau, A123 Systems president & CEO, discusses the tough year for his company, and how he plans to rebuild after laying off 125 workers from a Michigan plant.

For example, Uber sold new shares to SoftBank Group in January in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake in the company five years ago.

With Pokemon GO still taking the world by storm and Nintendo's new Switch console flying off the shelves, 2017 looks set to become another bumper year for the resurgent games company.

During the past 15 years in corporate America, I've worked for three different companies that were acquired by larger organizations on four different occasions.

When asked which company they would most want to work for, respondents chose the 93 - year old entertainment giant.

For the next couple of years, the company took its lumps.

The BlackBerry had been entrenched in the corporate world in North America for years before the company actively courted consumers, whereas it was already equipped with consumer - oriented features such as music and social networking capabilities when it entered new markets more recently.

It might be hard to remember, but Facebook was once considered a disappointing company that failed to live up to its potential for about a year after it came public.

This new form of equity crowdfunding — which is the result of the new Title III of the JOBS Act — allows companies to raise up to $ 1,000,000 each year, from investors for their businesses, using crowdfunding platforms.

Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves estimated that the top 8 cable companies lost 463,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2015 compared to a decline of 141,000 for the second quarter last year.

The new management team at accounting firm Lawrence Business Management has agreed to buy the business for $ 7.3 million cash from listed company Countplus, after two years of restructuring.

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

In the U.K. and Brazil, where it is downsizing to the tune of hundreds of locations, the company has struggled for years.

The company has also been working on voice recognition, natural langauge processing, and translation for years, so the Google Home is better at understanding accents and natural language than the Echo.

The company reported nearly $ 5 billion in revenue for 2017, according to its initial prospectus, though it still posted an operating loss of $ 461.3 million for the year.

At its analyst day, the company said it was gunning for sales in the year ending January 2021 to hit as much as $ 119.8 billion, compared with this year's estimate of $ 100.6 billion.

For $ 999 per year up front or $ 99 monthly, customers will use a kit sent by the company each quarter to take blood, urine, stool, and saliva samples, and then send them back for testiFor $ 999 per year up front or $ 99 monthly, customers will use a kit sent by the company each quarter to take blood, urine, stool, and saliva samples, and then send them back for testifor testing.

CNBC contributor Mike Khouw added that companies will continue to face increased pressure from a strong dollar, something that has plagued the U.S. earnings picture for the last year.

If HR does nothing in this case, I will consider leaving this company for real for the first time in five years.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

After working with the company for a year, Accenture will then match contributions up to 6 percent of an employee's pay.

The problem for Nintendo is the NX's launch is at least a year away — likely more, as the company reportedly just started talking about it with third party partners at this year's E3.

The move comes at the start of the time of year known as the annual upfront marketplace, between March and May, when many major U.S. media companies sell the bulk of their ad inventory for the next year.

And Andrew Park, senior director of customer experience strategy for InMoment, a customer experience management company, says that Amazon's launch of Amazon Key last year is a testament to the company's belief that it will continue to build consumer trust.

3Com went on to go public in 1984, and in 1999, its peak year for sales, the networking tech company did $ 5.7 billion in sales.

BEIJING, May 3 - Smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday, in what is expected to be the largest listing by a Chinese tech company in almost four years.

This unit of the company targets news verticals such as energy and health, and sells newsletters and other coverage for which some government clients spend upwards of $ 10,000 a year.

Founder and CEO Jack Davis launched the company four years ago with the goal of becoming the «Marvel for monsters,» a generator of scary characters that distributes programming through social media.