Sentences with phrase «acquired by larger companies»

According to a recent report, out of the the 2,277 companies surveyed, 76 % of them were totally self - financed before being acquired by larger companies.

«Getting acquired by a large company will give you lots of opportunities for leverage,» Erramouspe says.

In the latest development, Ferro responded to a new, more valuable offer from Gannett by saying he had no intention of being acquired by the larger company.

That makes it a very valuable company regardless of whether it remains independent or gets acquired by a larger company.

Hi, My company was acquired by another larger company last year.

She worked as a Salesforce Administrator for a telecommunications company that was acquired by a larger company in the same field called Genesys.

From Nextbit's point of view, being acquired by a larger company seemed like an inevitable next step.

In the business world, size matters, and when a company in one industry or another is struggling to stay afloat or striving to grow, sometimes its best move is to merge with or be acquired by a larger company.

Not exact matches

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.

Either that, or it ends up being acquired by another large multi-platform company that's also looking to hook users into its other products.

Some of the largest companies in the US are speaking out against a proposal by Bats, the stock exchange recently acquired by the Chicago Board Options Exchange, to shake up end - of - day trading.

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.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

Meanwhile Kia, which was Korea's second - largest car company until it was acquired by Hyundai in 1998, made its debut in the Top 100 at No. 87, ahead of Ferrari and Harley - Davidson.

1999: Tribal Voice, which faced fierce competition from larger companies AOL and Yahoo, is acquired by incubator CMGI.

This morning, one of the Green Growth Fund's portfolio companies, UpWind Solutions, was acquired by wind giant Vestas, the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines.

increased support of viable early stage issuers by private equity companies, thereby allowing issuers to defer listing until they are at a more mature stage, or avoid the listing process if they are acquired by a larger entity.

Traditionally, most attention in Canadian government support has been given to technology and product readiness, with scant attention being paid to the fact that without proper commercialization strengths a large number of Canadian start - ups have died or have been acquired for a pittance by foreign businesses which then proceeded to harvest the economic benefits for the innovations initially developed by Canadian companies.

One of main ways that Berkshire has grown over the years is by spending large sums to acquire other companies.

Now a consultant to venture capital firms, Bloom expects large companies to shift away from investing directly in R&D, focusing instead on acquiring startups and spinning off experimental projects that will be less constrained by bureaucracy and Wall Street demands.

All five companies either went public or were acquired by larger corporations.

Pardot was named to the Inc. 500 in 2012 and shortly thereafter Pardot was acquired by ExactTarget in one of the largest SaaS acquisitions ever of a bootstrapped company.

He spent five years in Indonesia from 2011 - 2016, where he was Co-founder and Managing Director of Lazada Indonesia, the largest eCommerce company in Indonesia and part of the Lazada Group, and which was acquired by Alibaba in 2017.

LearnVest isn't the first web - based financial planning company to be acquired by a larger financial services company.

The company has expanded its presence and customer base by acquiring J.H. Lea & Sons, a fish wholesale operation also located in Hampstead, N.C. With this purchase, Atlantic Seafood has cemented its position as one of the largest fresh and frozen seafood suppliers in the southeastern United States.

In 2005, the company was acquired by Nestlè, the world's largest food company.

The shares soared to $ 2.70 in mid-November — despite the company recording modest sales revenue — largely on the strength of the potential in China and a small stake in a Melbourne infant formula packaging facility acquired by a large Hong Kong - based consortium.

In May 2008 the company was acquired by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, the largest pharmaceutical company incompany was acquired by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, the largest pharmaceutical company inCompany Limited, the largest pharmaceutical company incompany in Japan.

«The acquisitions within the pharma industry are symptomatic of many companies with relatively weak pipelines that are acquiring innovation by consolidating with larger companies to reduce expenses.»

Millennium was acquired by Takeda Pharmaceuticals in 2008, the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan.

Complete Genomics was founded in 2006 and in March 2013 was acquired by BGI - Shenzhen, the world's largest genomics services company.

In 2003, we were acquired by PVH Corp., one of the largest apparel companies in the world.

Free is a tactic towards getting paid in other ways: through advertising, or by premium services (as in a freemium model), or maybe even through being acquired by a company with a large wallet.

In 2007, the company was acquired by American Capital which is a very large private equity firm and that was when I was brought in as a CEO to run the company.

Our # 1 - ranked major two years ago only to drop into the mid-sized group the following year, Sega returned to the majors this year with a larger slate of releases (even without including games published by the recently acquired Atlus, which continues to be run as a separate company).

A new education management company, led by the former head of a global electric company, has acquired Chancellor Beacon Academies, the nation's second - largest for - profit manager of charter schools.

Fantasy Records was acquired by the Concord Music Group in 2004, and the Saul Zaentz Company continues to administer a large body of film related copyrighted materials including the non-literary rights to the Tolkien series, Lord of the Rings.

Lotte Group of Korea, which includes among its businesses Korea's largest car rental company, aims to enter the retail car business by acquiring an Audi dealership in Seoul from Charmz... Read more

The largest company operating in this sector is Overdrive and they were purchased by Rakuten last March and the 3M Cloud Library was acquired by Bibliotheca in October.

Hachette — currently the world's third largest trade publisher, according to Publishers Weekly — has tried to tackle this by acquiring three video - game companies over the last two years, Nourry said, in order to tap talent from different industries and «see how we can nurture one another and how we can go beyond the ebook on digital».

State - controlled oil producer OAO Rosneft said it has paid back $ 7 billion of a bridge loan it had taken to acquire TNK - BP, the largest foreign debt repayment by a Russian company since Western sanctions were imposed.

This was the prize coveted by Bill Ackman when he acquired a large block of Target shares during the peak of the real estate bubble, and subsequently tried to force management to spin off the real estate holdings into a separate company and to lease back those stores, thereby «unlocking» value.

A unique and major move in price, driven by a catalyst like a surprise earnings growth, a drug company's huge, new treatment launch or news that a small company will be acquired by a larger firm

Yes, I know how the case could be made, but there were links in the chain where the smaller company was acquired by a larger one, and the smaller company came to dominate the management of the combined firm.

In addition to acquiring businesses that produce large free cash flow, Roper seeks to improve operating margins by incorporating its governance processes into the business practices of the acquired company.

Of course, this isn't the first time we've seen an important pet specialty food brand gobbled up by a large CPG company from the human - food world — Mars, Inc. acquired Nutro in 2007 and Del Monte bought Natural Balance in 2013.

Our parent company has been building antler furniture for decades, and we acquire antlers by the ton, enabling us to sell larger, higher - quality antlers for less.»

Three years later, Merrick was acquired by Nestle Purina PetCare, the second largest pet food company in the world.

But while the company has grown larger, its list of product offerings has actually gotten smaller — going from approximately 4,800 SKUs to just about 800 SKUs over the 12 years since it was acquired by Central.

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