Sentences with phrase «last year in my business»

«What we saw last year in our business, real time, was corporate America was very nervous for a whole bunch of reasons.

Last year in my business class, we were asked to create a business plan for a startup company.

One of my top agents struggled last year in the business.

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That business suffered badly last year and in early 2015 because of labor strife at West Coast ports from Seattle to San Diego.

Money for the original program — which helped to lend $ 22 billion to some 55,000 small businesses — was included in last year's economic stimulus bill.

Wynne also appointed a panel last month to examine those proposals, which included a jump in the HST, a five - cent - a-litre regional gas tax, a $ 350 - million - a-year business parking levy and $ 100 million a year in development charges.

Before you break into a sweat over the small business requirements in the health - care legislation signed into law last month, take a deep breath: Many of its provisions will take months if not years to go into effect.

Thomas Thurston, the founder of Growth Science in Portland, Ore., has spent the last seven years building databases and algorithms aimed at finding commonalities between businesses that thrive and fail.

«In order to meet the growing challenge of a tough market last year, I was forced to consider alternative options to keep my business viable,» said Dr. Alan Glazier, the company's founder and CEO.

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According to the report, Facebook brought in $ 4 billion in advertising revenue last year and 79 percent of businesses market on Facebook.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

These excellent results are supported by the success of our innovation drive in advanced materials, the benefits of increased production capacities in specialty molecular sieves in France and PVDF in China last year, the integration of XL Brands in adhesives and the confirmation of the very good performance of our intermediate chemical businesses.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

To the average reader of a business magazine, these may seem like ridiculously simple questions, but Lusardi and Mitchell's research over the last few years shows that, in general, you can not count on even this base level of knowledge about how money works.

«Last year, we saw a 28 percent rise in sales volumes for our small business merchants versus the same day in 2009,» said Mary Ann Fitzmaurice Reilly, senior vice president, American Express OPEN.

There appears to have been a surprising shift in the music business last year, as sales of digital downloads fell, with fans turning instead to streaming services such as Spotify and vinyl.

Similar legislation failed last year, after it pitted environmental scientists against businesses and trade groups that benefit from the $ 2 billion market for sun care products in the U.S.

Last year they began their Small Business Saturday initiative that encourages holiday shoppers to spend their dollars in small businesses.

His company, which sells around 80 homes each year and solicits business for related services such as appraisers and home stagers, grossed around $ 200,000 in sales last year.

I've been intimately involved with the management team and coauthoring the strategy for the company here over the last two years and operating in every part of the business.

It's rare for families to successfully navigate even one generational transition in the boardroom — a Canadian Business Insights study from last year found that just 17 % of family - run businesses have a firm succession plan in place.

Despite a lack of buy - in from B2B marketers, more businesses are employing content marketing (88 % — up 2 %) from last year, and 76 % of content marketers state that they plan to produce more content this year than last.

After eight years in business we looked at the performance of our company in the last three or four years, we had a lot of growth ahead of us, but still we had enough maturity to know that our concept is very resilient, very solid.

Based in Culver City, California, the business raked in $ 32.6 million last year, landing on the Inc. 5000at No. 276.

Etihad Airways may have faced turbulence in the last financial year, but its chief executive said it was still business as usual.

Not all powerful business families implode: When Paul Desmarais died last year, his sons, Paul Jr. and André, succeeded in dividing responsibilities over the vast financial services firm with little evidence of acrimony.

Their Wilmington, North Carolina, business brought in $ 3 million in revenue last year, via its social - networking app that sells tools and promotional items to beer purveyors, helping them connect to enthusiasts.

«Probiotics are probably the single most important new food category to emerge in the last 20 years,» Scott Bass, the head of the Global Life Sciences team at law firm Sidley Austin LLP and an adviser for the FDA on its first dietary supplement website, told Business Insider.

Since last year, Peninsula Shops has signed up about 80 businesses, many of which, facing competition from big - box retailers and feeling the effects of the recession, desperately needed a new tactic to get customers in the door.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

WellCare's net income rose more than $ 100 million in the third quarter of 2017 compared to the same time period last year thanks to stellar growth in its Medicare business and much lower - than - expected medical costs for its Medicaid plan holders relative to their premiums.

The business has tripled in the last three years, and we're profitable.

A 2014 survey conducted by Powersports Business magazine and RBC Capital Markets indicates retailers that sell BRP vehicles are outperforming their competitors: 32 % of BRP dealers reported an increase in motorcycle sales of at least 20 % in the fourth quarter of last year (compared with 13 % for dealers overall), and 42 % of BRP dealers expect another 20 % jump in sales for 2015.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Chagger minister of small business and tourism last year, and leader of the government in the House of Commons in August.

He started his first business, a paintball company, in high school, and his second, a Vernon, B.C. — based pizza - by - the - slice joint called Growlies, in lieu of finishing his last year of business school at the University of Victoria.

Queen's was one of the last schools in Canada without a major donor's name on its business department, but that changed last year with a record - breaking $ 50 - million gift from Stephen J.R. Smith, founder of First National Financial Corp. and a Queen's alumnus.

One of the best things we did for this business was spending four months in the Silicon Valley at Y Combinator program last year.

«I'm proud of the business that I built over the last 40 years and all that I have achieved with Formula One,» Ecclestone said in the statement.

In the last four years or so, Battista has observed an influx of clients who've had their business travel claims questioned by the Canada Revenue Agency.

However, in the last two years, the practice has decreased (falling down to just 30 percent of purchases in 2013) as businesses have found more effective ways to fight back.

This energy consulting company, which works with businesses to manage energy use and supply tailored renewable solutions, had just six employees as of last year — but made a whopping $ 5.1 million in revenue.

That sort of instant effect is a potential threat for Groupon (grpn), LivingSocial, Foursquare, and other relatively new companies that have revolutionized online marketing for small businesses in the last few years.

After a hiatus last year, I'll be heading back to the Burn in a few days, so check Business Insider for full coverage.

BITKOM, a German IT trade association that represents more than 2,200 international companies operating in the digital sector estimates that 44 percent of all businesses in Germany used cloud services last year.

Activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital — a business partner with Valeant in its failed bid last year for Allergan — offered a spirited defence of the company in a conference call Friday that lasted nearly four hours.

We've lost 40 % of our business in the last year and a half.»

«Last year, Parkwood Entertainment created new departments and recruited new executives from the tech, business and entertainment sectors who joined the team to help grow Parkwood and its interests,» Beyoncé's rep, Yvette Noel - Schure, said in a statement to Page Six.

(You can read more about Bono's business pursuits in this Fortune magazine profile from last year.)

Operating income rose almost a quarter to 3.99 billion euros after a 157 million euro Opel loss in the last five months of the year, following the consolidation of the former General Motors business.