Sentences with phrase «ago taken over these companies»

In a normal stock market, corporate raiders would have long ago taken over these companies and dismantled them for a profit.

Not exact matches

The picture above was taken for a feature I wrote on the company over a year ago, when it was a fraction of the size it is now.

One year ago ExactTarget, an interactive marketing software company, went public with a market cap of over $ 1 billion (and I wrote about the mental journey from start - up to IPO taken by the company's founders.)

Just over a year ago, the company trumpeted a study that said a whopping 92 % of Twitter users took immediate action after seeing tweets related to a TV show, whether that meant tuning into it or looking it up.

Waymo sued Uber nearly a year ago, sparking a showdown between the two technology companies over allegations by Waymo that one of its former engineers took trade secrets just before quitting and going to work at Uber.

After raising significant funding a few years ago as a 20 - year - old, the company needed to take a drastic shift over the past year to revive a struggling business model.

CEO Hubert Joly, who took over about three years ago, has transformed the company into a leaner, more nimble retailer.

And I've spent over 300 hours with Motif Investing, who during this time raised a Series E round led by Renren of China, a company I ironically helped take public years ago.

«There's nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now... I'm not talking about the company as I, kind of, took it over six months ago.

If the Rangers are indeed for real, nobody will be happier about it than Sonny Werblin, the impresario who 11 months ago took over as president of Madison Square Garden Corp., the parent company of the Rangers as well as the NBA Knicks.

Aurora Shoe Co.: My wife, Andrea was pregnant with our oldest daughter, Reagan when we made the move back home to the Aurora area and took over ownership of the Shoe Company just over 2 years ago.

Mr. Duffy and a cousin took over the company about 10 years ago.

They followed me and I them a long time ago, but like you once I saw thier site I shied away from ordering for same fears as you, having taken chances with another such company that many have bought from and it was failure and stress, despite others success... I ended up donating the clothing being over it, it was no money out of my pocket it was a Xmas gift via a gift card, but no less upsetting.

Since taking over the company less than a year ago we have implemented many improvements and changes to the structure of the business.

We took over the company less than a year ago and in this time, we have implemented many improvements and changes to the structure of the business.

Several months ago parents, teachers and community activists successfully prevented a charter management company from taking over the school.

Thanks so much for taking on the real reason why our children and educators are losing the teaching and learning game.I recall speaking before a national testing panel over 30 years ago to «follow the money, because the only winners that would win would be the testing companies»!

But as tens of millions of public funds are diverted to this lucky company, the most interesting development of all may well be that while Jumoke / FUSE Inc. claims to be focused on operating schools in Connecticut, their Booker T. Washington application failed to mention that just a few months ago, Jumoke / FUSE Inc. was able to get a contract from the Louisiana Recovery School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school there.

But as tens of millions of public funds are diverted to this lucky company, the most interesting development of all may well be that while Jumoke / FUSE Inc. claims to be focused on operating schools in Connecticut, their Booker T. Washington application fails to mention that just a few months ago, Jumoke / FUSE Inc. was able to get a contract from the Louisiana Recovery School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school there.

Jon Goldwater took over as chief executive and publisher of Archie Comics five years ago, from his father that founded the company in 1939.

This was a company that was spun out of Pride International (which announced that it was being taken over with a nice little premium a week or so ago, thank you) 18 months ago with no debt and assets with a book value of over $ 35 per share, including substantial cash.

I wish I'd found this company years ago — now it's been taken over at $ 10.00.

About a year ago, I started my new adventure in a new company: I took over the position of community manager at Giants Software, the creators of the Farming Simulator series and with the new company came a new company culture that needed to be explored and that is exactly what I want to talk about today.

But the company has taken a defensive posture over the Cambridge Analytica stories, saying that the issue was resolved years ago.

Unless he plans on going back to school to finish his 2 or 4 year degree, companies most likely will not care about a few college courses taken over 20 years ago.

The company's involvement in development started about a dozen years ago when Brown and Sharkey took over marketing of a new downtown apartment project on behalf of the bank that owned it after the developer went bankrupt.