Sentences with phrase «about global expansion»

As the world becomes smaller and globalization in most industries is now a given, more and more firms are thinking about global expansion.

She used the lull to address problems born of politics: educating clients with anxious immigrant employees or questions about global expansion post-Brexit.

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Didi has been outspoken about its global ambitions, but the Mexico expansion marks a turning point.

The global financial crisis initially slammed the brakes on the nation's economic expansion, wiping out about 20 million export - related jobs — this in a country where anything under 8 % growth is generally considered to be too slow for social comfort.

CNBC's Deirdre Bosa speaks to Chris Lehane, Airbnb head of global policy & communications, about Airbnb's product expansion into travel experiences.

I've already mentioned some of the things that you need to plan for, such as global expansion and what systems you need to integrate with, but you should also think about whether you will be supporting multiple brands and products over time and whether your customer support solution can scale as you grow.

In our feature article published today about Four Seasons» ambitious global expansion plans, CEO Allen Smith sizes up the competition from sharing - economy upstarts like Airbnb:

While complaints about China's abuse of intellectual property rights are not confined to the United States, Trump's global steel and aluminum tariffs announced last week under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 complicate U.S. efforts to recruit allies to put pressure on China.

«Each purchase of a white Coca - Cola can supports: false testimony on global warming; perpetration of the myth about endangered polar bears... activism to fight the development of affordable coal, oil and natural gas; hypocrites who won't follow their own recommendations; and expansion of already excessive environmental regulations.

Wanted to ask about the global opportunity for expansion of packaged and single - serve coffee?

Concerns about global trade tensions between China and the U.S. and the fear that the stellar earnings could be as good as it gets for stocks are all combining to undermine the sort of confidence that was in abundance during last year's run of repeated records for equity benchmarks, as the U.S. economy enters it ninth year of expansion and as the Federal Reserve moves to normalize monetary policy from crisis - era levels.

Canada's Global Markets Action Plan identifies about 20 countries as target markets, including China and India (these two markets are Canada's second - and 14th - largest trading exchange, respectively excluding services and direct investments), and specifically targets the expansion of SME sales to emerging markets.

The relationship, which came about because Virtue's global reach fit well with Lululemon's hopes for expansion, is ongoing, Stump said, noting that Virtue is expected to handle Lululemon's holiday work.

Currently, only about one percent of global agricultural land is dedicated to organic crops, so there's room for expansion, according to the authors.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

While most of this deforestation occurred in South America, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and the majority of agricultural products causing deforestation were consumed in the countries of origin, goods consumed in the EU contributed to approximately 90,000 square kilometers of lost forestland — about 7 % of the global deforestation resulting from agricultural expansion during this period, and up to 10 % if all finally processed products and all consumption sectors — such as textiles, pharmaceuticals, and service sectors — are added on.

Kaufman spoke about Copia's global expansion into Australia and Spain — and alluded to some big news that will hopefully be launched in time for next month's O'Reilly Media Tools of Change publishing event — as well the popular reception of the annotation feature that lets authors enter the discussion and post commentary inside the pages of readers» books, almost creating a «director's cut» out of books, much the way that JK Rowling has granted her fans insider access into the creation of the Harry Potter books by adding additional notes and comments on the series.

We know that all of the international chains are talking about expansion into the secondary cities outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg, but Best Western has the global recognition that is critical to success in new markets» said Best Western's Vice President of International Operations Suzi Yoder.

With the brand having taken the title of Asia's Leading Serviced Apartment Brand at the World Travel Awards for the third year in success, Breaking Travel News here chats with Kevin Goh, chief operating officer, The Ascott Limited about the company's plans for global expansion and the changing dynamics of the hospitality market.

We hear about their plans for further global expansion and their own fifty - year rule for gauging the quality of an artist.

On global vs. local, how about the global model prediction of a deepening and widening of the tropical atmospheric circulation, which leads to the Hadley cell expansion and the projection of the dry zones expanding polewards.

In my post explaining my transition out of full - time journalism, I talked about my goal of creating an online hub amounting to a global classroom — essentially an education - oriented expansion of Dot Earth — and noted how having an instant translation mechanism could hep.

In so far as those on the political left and right understand to some extent that human expansion is destroying the biosphere — they know about global warming — it would appear that compartmentalization is among the most important pyschological defense mechanisms.

The Challenger expedition measurements also revealed that thermal expansion of sea water caused by global warming contributed about 40 percent of the total sea level rise seen in tide gauges from 1873 to 1955.

Instead we hear about community organising and cooperatives, «affirmative action,» social justice, spirit fingers, noble Che Guevara, global authorities, expansion of entitlements and rights, which are ironically based upon the contraction of someone else's rights.

About 30 % of global sea level rise during the years considered here can be attributed to ocean thermal expansion (Storto et al., 2018, under review).

If there is deep - water formation in the final steady state as in the present day, the ocean will eventually warm up fairly uniformly by the amount of the global average surface temperature change (Stouffer and Manabe, 2003), which would result in about 0.5 m of thermal expansion per degree celsius of warming, calculated from observed climatology; the EMICs in Figure 10.34 indicate 0.2 to 0.6 m °C — 1 for their final steady state (year 3000) relative to 2000.

Since the 1920s, the global average sea level has risen about nine inches, mostly from the thermal expansion of the ocean water.

Wisconsin state regulators vote unanimously to reject the Nelson Dewey Generating Facility expansion, citing concerns about global warming as well as the plant's $ 1.3 billion price tag, which had ballooned almost 60 percent from 2007 due to rising construction costs.

Global sea level is currently rising as a result of both ocean thermal expansion and glacier melt, with each accounting for about half of the observed sea level rise, and each caused by recent increases in global mean temperGlobal sea level is currently rising as a result of both ocean thermal expansion and glacier melt, with each accounting for about half of the observed sea level rise, and each caused by recent increases in global mean temperglobal mean temperature.

As this paper demonstrates, a massive expansion of energy systems, primarily carried out in the rapidly urbanizing global South, in combination with the rapid acceleration of clean energy innovation, is a more pragmatic, just, and morally acceptable framework for thinking about energy access.

The paper wields huge power in the UK, and with its website plotting a U.S. expansion and reportedly receiving about 154 million global unique browsers each month, it is increasingly gaining that traction in the U.S. as well.

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).

«As I thought about this late last year, I concluded that Xiaomi is in a very good place on its global expansion path, and if there was ever going to be a good time for me to come back home, that time is now — when I can confidently say our global business is no longer just an in - house startup,» Barra wrote.

• the 2006 user uproar over the introduction of the News Feed; • the 2007 outrage over Facebook allowing user profiles to be discoverable by search engines; • the 2008 complaints about Facebook's practice of indefinitely keeping copies of user data from deleted accounts; • the 2008 backlash when the «Beacon» program was introduced; • the 2009 user indignation about expansions to Facebook's user data retention policies; • the 2010 concern over the way Facebook was handling privacy and was divulging identifying information to advertisers; • the 2010 worry that Facebook was «breaking things»; • the 2015 critique that Facebook was acting in an anti-competitive manner in introducing a «Free Basics» program in India; • and more recently, in responses over Facebook's influence on the 2016 U.S. elections and other global elections.

That worry about healthcare access was likely heightened by Trump's expansion of the «global gag rule,» which removes U.S. family planning funds from foreign groups that are involved in abortion services, even in referring patients to get them.

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