Sentences with phrase «acquire companies in»

In fact, the issue has become so important that we continue to acquire companies in order to grow our global footprint and keep up with the industry demands.

Microsoft likely will continue to acquire companies in the IoT space.

Baby's First Deal: In April, when Netflix raised $ 1 billion in new debt for content acquisitions, we noted that the streaming giant has never acquired another company in its entire history.

A consortium led by BC Partners acquired the company in 2014 for $ 8.7 billion, which I believe is the largest take - private since the financial crisis.

At the close of 2014, he hired Zenefits» first - ever COO: David Sacks, who served as PayPal's COO from 1999 until eBay acquired the company in 2002 for $ 1.5 billion.

Zappos is a unit of the online giant Amazon.com, which acquired the company in 2009.

4) It doesn't need to: Although buying Netflix would give Apple a leg up in the subscription services area, the company doesn't have to acquire the company in order to get most of those benefits — it could strike a licensing deal with Netflix, while also building its own subscription offering similar to Amazon's Prime Video.

Nightingale has been a leading office seating manufacturer based in Mississauga, Ont., since 1928, and his family acquired the company in 1991.

In other words, the business needs to have a strong local strategy once acquiring a company in a new market.

The computing giant acquired the company in 2011 for $ 612 million.

There is always a whiff of nostalgia when we get to review Motorola phones, and perhaps that's what Lenovo had in mind when it acquired the company in the first place.

The private equity angle: Apollo acquired the company in a leveraged buyout during the LBO boom in 2007.

Representatives for Cushman and TPG, the private equity firm that acquired the company in 2015 for roughly $ 2 billion including debt, declined to comment to Bloomberg.

From the acquisition standpoint, last year we acquired a company in Boston called Progressive Gourmet, which brought with it another set of suppliers and service providers.»

Massachusetts - based Cain's Foods acquired the company in 2003.

For instance, when Violi acquired the company in 2007, the manufacturing facility had only one small, unlidded soup kettle that didn't fit Butterfield Foods» needs.

Trace Life Sciences inherited the accelerator when it acquired that company in 2003.

THQ acquired the company in January 2008.

I saw a prototype several months before that, and it turns out Amazon had quietly acquired a company in 2010 called Oy Modilis that specialized in light - guiding films like those used in the Paperwhite.

Jackdaw was for many years operated by the husband and wife team of Roger and Mary Jacques, who acquired the company in 1973, and later by their children.

The site always focused on a clean, intuitive look and feel, though I found the improvements pretty much stopped shortly after Intuit acquired the company in 2009.

Then there was the time where an insurance company that I worked for bought out a smaller company, and the hidden price of the deal was that the new CEO would be the CEO of the acquired company in a year.

Toy Biz, which he helmed at the time, acquired the company in a sloppy mess of a merger / acquisition.

[/ span] Merging with or acquiring companies in the energy sector can be difficult enough domestically, but a cross-border deal like TransCanada's carries even more layers of complexity.

Faberge is majority owned by former BHP Billiton CEO Brian Gibertson's investment company Pallinghurst Resources, which acquired the company in 2007.

This could be a simple matter of a competitor acquiring a company in order to consolidate their market share, or it could be a giant company such as Google simply doing a talent acquisition with no interest in continuing to operate the acquired business.

Since Bowmark acquired the company in 2013, LBR has more than doubled its sales and profits.

I thought I had been respectful to the employees of the acquired companies in previous transactions (and being acquired taught me some things about what works and doesn't on a human level), but one of the things I hadn't applied my mind to was figuring out a way to maximize the role of the acquired company's employees in ensuring the success of the transaction.

He lead TechCrunch's sister site MobileCrunch as editor until AOL acquired the company in 2010, at which point the editors of TechCrunch's four main sites (TechCrunch, CrunchGear, MobileCrunch, TechCrunch UK) merged the sites under one domain.

Rubin co-founded Android in 2003 and Google acquired the company in 2005 before officially launching the first version of the OS in 2008.

Ranish acquired the company in 2014.

Two MLSs dropped Diverse Solutions as a provider of IDX listings for their members» websites after Zillow acquired the company in November.

Led by broker / owner David Ranish, who acquired the company in 2014, the firm serves Orange County with a particular focus on Laguna Beach where the average home sale price is more than $ 2 million.

Not exact matches

That explains why Restaurant Brands International (RBI), the Oakville, Ont. - based parent company of Tim Hortons and Burger King, will shell out US$ 1.8 billion in cash to acquire Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, an American fried chicken chain.

(Disclosure: Time Inc., TIME and Fortune's parent company, was acquired by Meredith Corp. in a deal partially financed by Koch Equity Development, a subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc..)

• Vitruvian Partners agreed to acquire a minority stake in Bitdefender, a Bucharest, Romania - based cybersecurity tech company, from Axxess Capital.

Unetich first joined TT in 2010 as a product manager after it acquired his company TickIt Trading Systems.

There, companies can easily employ international workers, as local visas aren't as difficult to acquire as the coveted H - 1B in the United States.

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.

Waymo claimed in a lawsuit earlier this year that former engineer Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files before leaving to set up a self - driving truck company, which Uber acquired soon after.

FiberTower, a small company acquired by AT&T (t) in February, spent a decade trying to get off the ground until it filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and had many of its licenses stripped by the FCC.

German media giant Axel Springer is acquiring a controlling stake in media startup Business Insider for $ 343 million, which values the New York - based company at about $ 450 million.

The same restructuring appointed separate executives responsible for each of the Leon's stores and the Brick, which the company acquired in 2013, freeing the family to focus on further growing their empire.

This has driven interest in acquisitions and joint ventures by big beverage companies like Starbucks, which acquired Atlanta - based tea retailer Teavana in 2012, and Hain Celestial, which says it plans to complete multiple acquisitions of ready - to - drink beverage brands valued at $ 5 million to $ 20 million.

In 2009, Industry Canada sued Pittsburgh - based U.S. Steel as a means for forcing that company to comply with undertakings it made while acquiring Hamilton - based Stelco.

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

He realized that would be where the next generation of big data companies would come in, leading him to found Action IQ after Aster Data was acquired by Teradata in 2011.

Amazon's house - brand batteries now outsell Duracell online, and the company will now get upwards of $ 16 billion a year in annual revenue from a grocery store — Whole Foods, which it acquired over the summer.

-- 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..

WICHITA, Kan., May 2, 2018 / PRNewswire / — Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPR) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire S.R.I.F. N.V., the parent company of Asco Industries, N.V. (Asco), for $ 650 million in cash, subject to customary closing adjustments, including foreign currency adjustments.