Sentences with phrase «acquiring a company as»

They also run acquired companies as stand - alones rather than integrating them.

Creative Direct Response would pay Squire for the $ 3 million stock purchase, acquiring the company as a wholly owned subsidiary.

The current owner acquired this company as part of a larger deal; he's ready to sign off but expects the small staff to stay.

If you're planning on acquiring a company as a strategic asset, I generally recommend keeping the team as an autonomous unit.

Last year, Discovery Education acquired the company as part of its ongoing effort to speed the transition from static textbooks to dynamic digital content around the world.

Therefore, it may be necessary for you to, for example Google the name of the company that issued the policy as a means of performing some «archeology» to determine whether the company was acquired by another or went out of business, If the former, contact the acquiring company as described above.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Shapiro said NBCUniversal hopes to draw in users with already popular NBC titles like SNL and Parks & Recreation, but the company plans to hold onto those customers by recommending a range of additional content — particularly original and acquired programs exclusive to Seeso — as part of selections curated by real people.

Since launching Raleigh Construction Company (now Raleigh Enterprises) in 1955, he has acquired, developed and managed more than 11 million square feet of real estate across the globe, reimagining dormant plots of land and run - down commercial buildings as resort hotels, residential apartments, office towers, shopping centers and film studios.

BKEG was acquired in 2003 by New Wave Entertainment, a producer of marketing solutions and trailers for the movie industry that's owned by Paul Apel, who started as an editor at the company and worked his way up to owner and CEO, a spot he's had for 23 years.

The move comes as a surprise about - turn for a company whose Chief Executive Akin Akinfemiwa told investors in Lagos in August that he wanted to aggressively pursue M&A opportunities along the energy value chain and acquire marginal oilfields to boost its upstream business.

«Given there are only so many targets that are «needle - moving,» we believe that if one of the larger software companies is acquired, it could create a domino - like effect as strategic buyers jockey for position,» Materne wrote.

The combined ratio, loss and LAE ratio, and underwriting expense ratio are used as indicators of the Company's underwriting discipline, efficiency in acquiring and servicing its business and overall underwriting profitability.

Mathers previously served as CEO of CoLucid Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CLCD), a Pappas Capital portfolio company that was acquired in early 2017 by Eli Lilly & Company for nearly $ 1 bcompany that was acquired in early 2017 by Eli Lilly & Company for nearly $ 1 bCompany for nearly $ 1 billion.

When the company acquired LinkedIn for $ 26.2 billion in 2016, PCMag made several predictions about the ways in which a Microsoft and LinkedIn marriage could work, like Microsoft leveraging LinkedIn in order to give users access to expertise within Microsoft apps, such as Word and PowerPoint.

Blue Apron reported a loss of almost $ 55 million last year, as the cost of acquiring new customers hurt the company's bottom line.

Thiel was rumored to express interest in acquiring the company's remaining assets as a way to shut down Gawker's investigation into the tech billionaire's role in underwriting the lawsuit that led to the company's bankruptcy.

The good news for the payment company is that it pulled in $ 34 million of Bitcoin - related revenue last quarter — the bad news is that Square spent nearly as much to acquire Bitcoin in the first place.

As the holiday acquired nation - wide popularity, Alibaba became the first major company in 2009 to monetize the holiday by launching a special online sale and effectively transforming the day into the world's biggest 24 - hour online shopping event, one that reflects the growing wealth of China's middle - class.

The new rules by themselves will likely give the carriers more incentive to buy content - producing companies, as Verizon (vz) did in acquiring Yahoo and AT&T is attempting to do by acquiring Time Warner (twx).

A decade ago, Reebok acquired the original Canada Cycle & Motor Company (CCM), as well as hockey brands JOFA and Koho, for US$ 329 million.

• The Riverside Company acquired Kii Naturals, a Canada - based maker of all - natural artisan crackers as an add - on for portfolio company NuStef Company acquired Kii Naturals, a Canada - based maker of all - natural artisan crackers as an add - on for portfolio company NuStef company NuStef Baking.

Just as smartphones forever changed our lives, 57 percent of consumers say that they believe the Internet of Things will be revolutionary, with another 47 percent saying that companies that aren't trying to connect their products to the Internet are missing a big opportunity, according to a study conducted by marketing tech company Affinnova which was recently acquired by consumer and media insights compmany Nielsen.

And within months of announcing that it was acquiring Rdio last year, Pandora was reported to be on the block (although co-founder Tim Westergren has downplayed that idea since he took over as the company's CEO).

The fund also acquired 7.25 million shares of cloud computing company Rackspace Hosting, a stake worth $ 244 million as of June 30, the company said.

CytoSport's innovative pipeline in recent years has been powered by Hormel Foods (hrl), which paid $ 450 million to acquire the sports - nutrition maker back in 2014 in a deal intended to help the company reach younger consumers as well as those interested in adding more protein to their diets.

Animal M&A: As Term Sheet noted yesterday, PetSmart has acquired online pet food company Chewy.com.

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.

At Inspirato, Handler says he's most surprised that acquiring a new customer through his experience centers costs the same as it would through the company's traditional direct marketing.

Valeant, as the story unfolded, bought existing medications from other drug makers, as well as whole companies - then relentlessly hiked the prices of the drugs it acquired.

The former Vice President of Growth for Mobile & International at Facebook, Palihapitiya was an angel investor even before leaving, with money in companies such as Palantir and the Disney - acquired Playdom.

Prior to Sucampo, he served as Chief Scientific Officer of Ambrx Inc., a clinical - stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of antibody - drug conjugates (ADCs) that was acquired by a consortium led by Fosun Pharmaceutical Group in 2015.

Essentially, it's the wish list of traits in a company you want to acquire as a customer.

The company's new TV division is also appealing to yesteryear; it's being branded as Mainframe Entertainment, the name the company scrapped in 2006 when it was acquired by Rainmaker Income Fund.

When someone knows digital influencer relations as Gabrielle, you almost want to go out and acquire her company.

From a branding point of view, you're ExactTarget, which is part of Salesforce, as opposed to the other way around, which often happens to acquired companies.

«Particularly with oil prices hitting lows at some point in the first quarter... lots of sub investment - grade firms could be under a lot of stress, and for those with stronger balance sheets, those companies could take this as an opportunity to buy and acquire assets,» Deshpande said in a phone interview.

The company expanded rapidly, literally changing the Waterloo landscape as it acquired new buildings to cope with its swelling employee count.

I wouldn't be partnering to release my own sneaker or building a sports agency or thinking about acquiring or launching other publishing companies if I didn't have VaynerMedia as a base.

As for this own market exploits, Icahn disclosed that he now is seeking permission from his company to acquire up to 50 percent of Herbalife shares.

Building on the advice he gave as a consultant, Pearson continued searching for companies to acquire in high - growth, low - competition sectors, finding profitable niches in ophthalmology, dermatology and gastroenterology.

Pure was eventually acquired and is now part of IBM, and Hastings went off to start Netflix, which started as an internet company specializing in mailing out DVDs.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

In a joint venture with Enterprise Product Partners LP, the company will acquire and reverse an old ConocoPhillips pipeline from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Cushing, Okla., to go into service as soon as next summer.

Stephen DiFranco is the founder of The IoT Advisory Group, a Silicon Valley firm that guides companies as they create, build, acquire and transact IoT business units.

The deal gives AOL additional tools as it continues its transformation into a digital advertising company under Verizon (VZ), which acquired it earlier this year for $ 4.4 billion.

And, as a side note, as U.S. search and content firm Yahoo looks to unwind its 23 percent ownership stake in Alibaba when Alibaba goes public in September, it could end up competing with Alibaba for companies to acquire as it looks to reinvent itself.