Sentences with phrase «shoe company when»

Also Bobby had observed the women who came filing out of the Peerless Shoe Company when the three o'clock whistle blew (he himself got out of school at two - thirty), women who all seemed way too skinny or way too fat, women with pale faces and fingers stained a dreadful old - blood color, women with downcast eyes who carried their work shoes and pants in Total Grocery shopping bags.

«There is such a robust entrepreneurial community and a real energy around starting companies at Wharton,» Klein says, who comes from a family of entrepreneurs dating back to his grandfather, who started a shoe company when he arrived in America after World War II.

Not exact matches

Adidas and Nike's shoe offerings are a much bigger overall percentage of sales for both companies when compared with Under Armour.

When Zappos began in 1999, the company had no warehouse, and its shoe vendors shipped merchandise directly to customers» homes.

Brooks is one of the few shoe companies that is focused solely on the sport of running, and that dedication shows when it comes to the quality of its running shoes.

So when it came to making the Speedform Gemini running shoe, which was released last January to largely rave reviews, the company added «charged foam» padding tailored to that kind of run.

When customers figured out that they could cancel their Shoes4you subscriptions indirectly through their banks, rather than through the company — eliminating the charges, but still getting their shoes at the discounted membership rate — many did.

When Nike went public in 1980, the country saw for the first time that the «sneaker guys from Oregon» had built a company with annual sales of $ 270 million, net income of roughly $ 13 million, and annual production of 30 million pairs of shoes.

Typical entrepreneurs are so preoccupied with ramping up the value of their enterprises that when it comes to an essential issue like retirement planning, they're like the cobbler's children without shoes,» warns Arthur Warren, a retirement - strategy specialist who owns his company, Benefits Advisors of New England, in Franklin, Mass..

For example, back when she was an executive recruiter, a friend of mine used to buy high - end shoes for anyone who recommended a candidate that was accepted by a company who had an open position she was looking to fill.

Last year Adidas made headlines when the company joined forces with Parley for the Oceans to craft shoes made out of recycled ocean trash.

The NCAA is already supposed to be regulating the recruitment process, but it can't when grassroots teams and shoe companies run all the tournaments that feature the best players.

* You and I may not consider shoe companies or agents giving money to people for being good at basketball a crisis (because it isn't), but the schools and conferences apparently find capitalism disturbing when they aren't the ones engaging in it.

What has bubbled under the surface for years, fueled by the rise of AAU basketball and the infusion of money via shoe companies, was made public when multiple coaches were indicted in late September.

Aurora Shoe Co.: My wife, Andrea was pregnant with our oldest daughter, Reagan when we made the move back home to the Aurora area and took over ownership of the Shoe Company just over 2 years ago.

The company is dedicated to helping women find better comfort, support and pain relief when wearing shoes.

In other studies, consumers thought various products such as running shoes, tooth whiteners, and hair loss treatments performed better when told the companies donated to charity.

Segmenting by gender may make sense with products like clothes, shoes, or jewelry, but when it comes to supplements it's just a way to rip off customers and put more money in the pockets of supplement companies.

However, when you mentioned, «a China - based company» manufactures them, my heart sank as I purchased a pair of shoes from eBay a couple of years ago and even though I ordered my size when they arrived, I knew straight away that they wouldn't fit.

TOMS are a very popular and fashionable choice in footwear, and for more than one reason — not only are they durable and comfortable with a classic suede insole and latex arch insert, when you buy a pair of TOMS, the company gives away a pair of their shoes to a child in a third world country.

When Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos announced in 2013 that the company was ready to make a «significant» investment in fashion under the name Amazon Fashion, Beaudoin was running Gap's Piperlime shoe site, which she co-founded.

When purchasing, be sure to ask if the company has a type of cleaner or conditioner that they use, as that will be the safest option for that shoe / bag.

When it comes to determining what a company is worth, value investors like to put themselves in the shoes of a level - headed private buyer who wants to purchase the whole company.

We have learned that the stock market rewards faster growth more than durable growth, as when shoe company Crocs carried a high multiple for many years, later crashing when the faddish shoes stopped selling as well.

I enjoy the company, it's true, but I also know they're going crazy when I put my running shoes on and walk out the door alone.

When the tour company tells me there will be no strenuous hiking and only light walking for short periods of time during a two - week trip, then I do not bother to bring hiking shoes, which take up a lot of space in my bag.

Between 2007 when entrepreneur Javier Goyeneche founded Ecoalf, and august 2010, the Spanish company had been recycling 2.150.000 PET bottles and 8.900 kilos of fishing nets by turning them into 100 % recycled and recyclable products, from luxury bags to shoes and clothing.

I can imagine wearing them at the beach or to do watersports, and find them useful when travelling due to their little weight (the lightest shoe in the world so the company claims) and compactness.

When you make a personal injury claim under your underinsured motorist coverage, your (or your relative's) insurance company stands in the shoes of the at - fault driver.

Until that shoe drops, however, I will remain impressed at what can happen when private companies find a way to tap into large amounts of investment money, and investors can find liquidity in tokens representing everything from computer storage to a bet in a prediction market.

Various pairs of John Doe shoes saw me through the ups and downs of my life, and I have always wanted to work for the company, hence my excitement when I saw the posting last week for a district manager.

A local charity near our small town that has a thrift store to raise money has an empty trailer out back where they place clothes, shoes, purses and other linens to sell to a textile recycling company when the trailer is full.

My nightmare is when I get unexpected company that have to manuever through our pile of shoes or mess as they enter our otherwise organized and clean home!