Sentences with phrase «small business units»

Maybe just as impressive: Its smaller business units, namely Macintosh, iPad, web services, and «Other» (which includes Apple Watch, Beats and Apple TV), would all be Fortune 500 companies in their own right.

Schools are doomed to fail if the Tory plans to privatise every school into a small business unit go ahead.

Not exact matches

Berkshire has more than 90 operating units, including large businesses such as the BNSF railroad, Geico auto insurance and Berkshire Hathaway Energy utilities, and smaller businesses making Dairy Queen ice cream, Duracell batteries, Fruit of the Loom underwear, Ginsu knives and the World Book encyclopedia.

If you remove the need to income split by taxing the family unit of those in married or living common - law relationships and then adopt a flat tax for everyone — say 20 % — there really is no need for small business to incorporate, except for perhaps liability issues.

After the Microsoft sale Nokia was left with its core network equipment and services business plus its smaller HERE mapping and navigation unit and Nokia Technologies, which manages the licensing of its portfolio of patents and develops new products such as the N1 and the Z Launcher.

Leaders from nearly three dozen tech companies, including Salesforce, Yelp, AT&T, Comcast, and Square, signed off on a letter to local officials last week, urging them to consider a development proposal that would add seven million square feet of commercial space and 4,400 housing units to the small city, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

Google became a subsidiary of Alphabet, as did most of its smaller, research - driven units, including connected - home business Nest and Google Fiber, its home broadband initiative.

Unlike Amazon (amzn) or Microsoft, GoDaddy was marketing its new cloud - computing unit to small businesses as opposed to giant companies like Pfizer (pfe) and Nokia.

Also helpful: These office leaders divide up their business units into smaller groups, to ensure that all employees get close contact with their bosses on a daily basis.

As for Google and its parent company Alphabet, cloud computing business is growing — although the company did not provide detailed quarterly information about the unit's financial performance because of its relatively small size.

Performance unit plans (PUPs) make good sense for small businesses.

It leaves a mark on our mode of thinking — we become silo thinkers when people say «my department» or «my unit» thereby identifying themselves with small parts of a business solution rather than with its entire mission.

Prior to his tenure at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Marcus worked in project finance in the Residential and Small Commercial business unit at SunEdison.

Ms. Mayer, who was hired in 2012 to turn around Yahoo, had planned to spin off the company's 15 percent stake in Alibaba, bundled with a small - business - services unit, into a new company called Aabaco.

Being a franchised network of IT consultants to small businesses, CMIT Solutions is expecting to expand from 130 locations to 500 locations across the nation and from only having units in 32 states to all 50 states within the next couple of years.

Vantiv, which started in the 1970s as the payments - processing unit of Fifth Third Bancorp before being spun off in 2012, will gain greater exposure to Internet retailers and small businesses following the deal.

JD Finance, which only owns a few, small financial licenses such as a third - party payment license in China, will likely get access to some lucrative businesses of First Capital and its units, including those of securities, funds and stock futures, after the stake acquisition, one of the sources said.

It would then break up the building into smaller units and re-let them, usually to small businesses,» The Independent reported back in 1993.

Whereas KLX's aerospace unit remains solidly profitable, its smaller energy business has been mired in the carnage of the oil and gas downturn.

They're pulled from a two - drawer refrigeration unit made especially for McDonald's that features a different compressor to ensure the proper holding temperature of the fresh beef, says Christa Small, senior director, new development and business integration.

Prior to his tenure at Morgan Stanley, Ian worked in project finance in the Residential and Small Commercial business unit at SunEdison.

Variable Cost — Usually directly proportional to the (high or low) volume of units being produced by a company or small business; generally, they rise as production increase, and fall as production decreases.

The trading units in the past have been individual businesses, sometimes relatively small ones.

From their humble beginnings in a small unit in suburban Toronto, this family business has maintained their family values and pillars of success.

The complex houses CPUT's department of food technology, formed in 2006 from the consolidation of the existing units on its Cape Town and Bellville campuses, and the Agrifood Technology Station, a government - subsidised consulting system that assists small businesses.

One media article was posted on the electronic discussion list set up by the Work and Family Unit in the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business (DEWRSB).

Thatcherite Tories favoured scaling down the size of economic and social units: breaking up the welfare state and dismantling the corporate economy into privatized units run by entrepreneurs and business leaders operating within a smaller — but stronger — state.

Local Government The FSB's Local Government Policy Unit works to ensure small businesses can compete and grow locally and are treated fairly by local authorities and Government regarding rates, business taxes, planning and procurement.

Trade and Industry The FSB Trade and Industry Policy Unit represents small businesses in public procurement, postal issues, telecommunications and broadband, consumer rights, the pub industry and other issues.

Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are often ignored; expands pre-K and child care; and builds 80,000 units of good middle class housing.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

«During a stellar career in the public and private sectors, Ms. Glen has been a leader in financing and rehabilitating thousands of moderate and low - income housing units in our city, as well as an advocate for small businesses and a catalyst for more than $ 5 billion worth of public - private partnerships.

He also proposed a $ 250 million fund to help convert up to 110,000 foreclosed units into affordable housing, and called for a new loan program to help small businesses secure financing.

He has developed and renovated numerous properties, creating hundreds of units of affordable housing while also growing small businesses.

«As individual units small businesses may appear to be small, but together they account for as much as 50 per cent of Nigeria's GDP and over 80 per cent of our labour force.

For the business key persons, yes, if it means smaller margins per unit sold.

This resources provides a great activity for teaching «promotion» as part of the marketing mix for small businesses covering GCSE Business Studies specifications such as AQA Unit 1 (Setting up a Business, Topic 1).

Appearances can be deceptive: a phrase that neatly illustrates both the difficulty Bruce and business partner Tom Bullick have had in squeezing the Jaguar unit into a small Japanese roadster, and the character of said roadster when equipped with the aforementioned V6.

Small business owners and commercial fleets hoping for a diesel will have to settle for Ford's 1.5 - liter Duratorq unit, which can be optioned with either 85 or 120 horsepower.

For e-book lovers, the most important new feature in Reader Mobile 9 is PDF reflow, which automatically shrinks and reformats PDFs for the small screen so readers don't have to pan and zoom around overly - large pages, Anup Murarka, director of partner development and technology strategy at Adobe's platform business unit, said in an interview last week.

To qualify for the Black Friday / Small Business Saturday promotion, stores will need to report their November 23rd and 24th Kobo Mini sales, including unit serial numbers, via a web form available here.

They elaborated «A word about proportion: this business interruption affects a small percentage of Amazon's demand - weighted units.

Typical buyers are small and medium sized business, architectural and engineering firms, government and military, digital video producers, and college research units.

Since 1972, WHEDA has financed more than 73,000 affordable rental units, helped more than 125,800 families purchase a home and made more than 29,000 small business and agricultural loan guarantees.

This can provide flexibility in the payment of dividends to different family members; a structure to minimize taxes paid by your family unit; multiple access to the qualified small business capital gains deduction (see topic 136); and some creditor - proofing for cash presently accumulated in your company.

Small community grants to assist with downtown revitalization of a historic or traditional central business district by replacing unused commercial space with affordable housing units.

Management Rights are very popular in Queensland and smaller accommodation complexes are run by couples that purchase a unit in the building along with the business rights to manage the balance of the strata titled holiday apartments on behalf of the property investors as holiday letting accommodation.

With five office units across three floors, it's a place made especially for small creative and digital businesses.

In E.ON's distributed - generation business, in Germany the first small - scale CHP units of its partnership with Metro entered service.

A survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that concerns over fees and increasing need for deep local knowledge is pushing more business to smaller and more specialized providers — 40 % of large corporations surveyed expect this trend to increase over the next 5 years.