Sentences with phrase «against industry best»

We work with our clients to identify business development strengths and weaknesses then benchmark them against industry best practices.

Learn how California vintners and winegrape growers have utilized the 3rd edition California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Workbook to measure their level of sustainability and benchmark internal practices against industry best practices.

People must be measured in performance reviews against industry best practices, rather than previous results in your business.

Not exact matches

Industry experts and retailers credit music fans for the focus on vinyl, saying a small backlash against digital downloads has led some customers toward searching out higher sound quality, as well as the more authentic experience of physically putting on a record.

Top of mind for industry insiders is how companies can best protect themselves against an increasingly sophisticated enemy intent on attacking bigger and more lucrative targets.

That puts them up against the giants of the beer industry — like Anheuser - Busch and Molson Coors — as well as national craft brewers who are nearly as well known, including Boston Beer Co., maker of Samuel Adams, and privately held Sierra Nevada.

Not only did he leave the family firm, but, using his marine industry contacts, Caliedo eventually began to compete against his father as well.

Azor: So when we were acquired in 2006, the initial strategy was «let's compete against each other because Dell had their XPS gaming product line,» but where Dell's strengths were, we wanted to immediately take advantage of that — like supply chain, engineering, and a bunch of other areas where Dell has been best in class in the entire industry.

Lawmakers have also been working on other measures, including devising a banking plan for the industry as well as voting against allowing cannabis businesses to deliver their products via drone.

«In addition to adopting industry - wide reforms related to participation in benchmark rates, Citi has made substantial investments in its systems, controls and monitoring processes to better guard against inappropriate behavior,» the bank added.

In your view, is the popular protest movement against the financial industry good or bad for your business?

To benchmark his own business practices against the best ones in his industry, David Luse of $ 8.2 - million Minneapolis - based Arteka, a landscaping company, created his own small networking group.

«This is a conversation that obviously needs to be had,» Franco said on the program in reference to the issue, as well as to the criticism he received online for wearing a pin advocating for the Time's Up movement of women in Hollywood working against sexual misconduct and gender imbalance in the industry.

Amgen's 22 % ROIC is among the best in the large - cap pharmaceutical industry, and it's undervalued against both its peers and the broader market.

Retirement Benefits Group hired a third - party to benchmark their fees against the rest of the industry, something Weir recommends other advisors do as well.

Christina Kalogera, director of the Greek National Tourism Organization's U.K. and Ireland office, told CNBC that Greece was hopeful that 2015 would be a good year for the tourism industry, particularly with the euro weakening against the dollar and sterling.

We've been working closely with our partners and exchanges to improve security protocols by utilizing NEM's built - in security features and adoption of industry standard best practices to help protect against future attacks.

When you've had some successful marketplace investing, you start to say, «Okay, well what are the biggest segments of our economy and is there an opportunity to do something similar against those different industries?»

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

With Merck, Pfizer, and many other smaller players all competing against Johnson & Johnson in the pharma industry, will J&J's strategy prove to be the best one for investors?

Blockchain innovators are hitting the bottle with applications for the wine industry, as better tracking means happier consumers and stronger protection against counterfeiting.

During their time in Santo Domingo, they were deeply impressed by IJM's work — namely, the organization's cooperation with local officials and churches to better engage in the fight against the nation's booming sex trafficking industry.

In the ongoing war against plastic waste, leading names in the drinks industry, including Pernod Ricard's Chivas Regal blended Scotch and the world's largest spirits group Diageo, as well as bars and nightclubs, have pledged to remove straws from their businesses.

We recognise the important role of «Q» Awards in highlighting product quality and supplier professionalism and confidently look forward to benchmarking Northern Ireland produce against the best in the industry.

It was an industry where there were substantial resources arrayed against us, but we pursued it and we got, I think, a very good result.»

«There's widespread support in the industry for the rebate to be removed from NZ producers, but every time we raise this with decision makers in Canberra we run up against the argument of whether removing that entitlement will have broader ramifications on our trading agreements, not just with New Zealand but with other countries as well.

In a major breakthrough, Scotch Whisky has been registered as a certification trade mark in Australia, giving consumers and the industry better protection against fakes.

There's a cottage industry in reporting and reacting to news of football's ties to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), from the well - publicized PBS documentary League of Denial to conference speakers lashing out against the supposed War on Football.

SportsInsights updates its regular series of articles that focus on «Betting Against the Public» — as well as other articles related to money management, and the sports betting industry — and other academic research.

This partnership has been our best for a while and its against industry practice to break it up just yet.

On the other hand, for the biggest European football clubs, who are intrinsically part of the global entertainment industry, attracting the best talent is an absolute must to ensure a competitive advantage against their peers on and off the pitch and to grow their global fan base.»

While the school initiative was in place well before the industry was put on the defensive against the proposed taxes, the promotion of the program is certainly well - timed.

Kudos to Food and Water Watch, which explains how the good guys won this time: «Given the enormous power of our opponents, like the big chicken industry and pharmaceutical companies who fought against us for three years, this victory is a real testament to the power of grassroots organizing.»

The beef industry is pushing back hard in the last few days against opposition to Lean Beef Trimmings, better known as «pink slime.»

It also shows why we must get better about educating women about what it actually means when they choose NOT to breastfeed and how the formula industry is working against their interests and against the health of their children.

I know you're against clean air and water and would prefer to have industry control all that stuff, oh wait you can go to Delhi India for all the best in air pollution.

On the positive side, we benefitted from a healthy recovery in the global air cargo industry, as well as the relative strengthening of key currencies against the US dollar.

Public pressure against companies connected to the gun industry following last month's school shooting in Florida has hit an unlikely target: REI, the outdoors co-op better known for its public lands advocacy, liberal return policy and annual dividend for customers.

Share Better, a partnership between hotel union and industry leaders aiming to expose illegal Airbnb activity, is running a «guerilla campaign» against the industry.

With friendly matches penciled in against the Westminster Press Corps as well the PR industry, there'll be plenty of opportunity to showcase your skills and make new friends, regardless of your political affiliation.

If it is extreme to speak out against a government take - over of our best - in - the - world health care system, 2 / 3rd's of our automobile industry, and subsidization of a high - risk banking and mortgage system at the expense of small businesses and taxpayers, than I fully support the «extremism» of Dr. Nan Hayworth..

In a statement, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, cast the deal as a blow against «this state's archaic blue laws» and part of a larger, more long - term policy of his administration to support New York's alcohol industry, which he said created «some of the best beer, wine, cider and distilled spirits in the world.»

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

The industry employs hundreds of thousands of individuals in Scotland; the cut in the PRT and supplementary charge signals that the Government has taken a long - term view to protect the industry in recognising that its role is to mitigate as best it can against the natural fluctuation of the oil and gas commodity prices.»

It also pitted Republicans from across the state against the state's huge and politically formidable health care industry, as well as Democrats.

The alcohol industry says it's against excessive drinking, so why does it neglect the best ways of encouraging moderation, asks Peter Aldhous

Toward a Cure Developing effective treatments against the virus required researchers to understand the structure of the various proteins that formed its outer shell, as well as the precise sequence of its genetic material, which is made up of RNA — a process that took the better part of the 1990s and involved researchers working around the globe in government, academia and industry.

Urged on by the ideologues in the Industry Commission, McLachlan is likely to leave local industry to survive as best it can against competition from large overseas - owned corpoIndustry Commission, McLachlan is likely to leave local industry to survive as best it can against competition from large overseas - owned corpoindustry to survive as best it can against competition from large overseas - owned corporations.

Fischetti: Another historic, kind of, angle on this might be, well in the»70s [during the] so - called first energy crisis, E. F. Schumacher published this book Small is Beautiful, [which basically said, «big is bad» and I think it was mainly pitched against industry more than anything else.]

According to Christian Weilke, manager for new product marketing at Roche Applied Science, the biotech industry - focused MycoTOOL PCR test is «thoroughly validated» for 11 species of interest to U.S. and European regulatory agencies; this test can detect «over 120 further Mycoplasma species,» with good specificity against non-Mollicutes bacteria, as well.