Sentences with phrase «allowed businesses and consumers»

That's allowed businesses and consumers to refinance their debt at lower rates, freeing up cash to spend.

Not exact matches

Direct sales seemed like a perfect fit for Steeped Tea: The party setting would allow consultants to educate consumers and build camaraderie, and the consumable nature of the product would be an ideal recipe for repeat business.

I can always discuss business or shifting consumer behavior in general, but getting context within a Q&A format allows me to go into detail and provide value to the person asking a question.

Giving your consumers a voice and allowing them to imfluence business decisions results in stronger brand loyalty.

Benjamin Wolin, co-founder and CEO of Everyday Health, a digital - media company that owns sites and produces content related to health, started the business in 2002 with two co-founders with the goal of allowing different players in healthcare to reach out and communicate with consumers.

This technique will allow you to test the market and possibly make some adjustments in order to make your business more appealing to the needs of the consumers.

In a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, Gibson said the overseas consumer electronics business will be wound down, allowing it to re-focus on its core guitar - making and audio businesses.

He started out as a recording artist but then lost the data on his smartphone and got an idea for a business that would back up mobile data and allow consumers to take it with them if they switched carriers.

«Business owners are allowed to deduct credit - card interest on business purchases, but consumers can't deduct personal interest charges,» explains Richard M. Colombik, a lawyer and certified public accountant based in SchaumburBusiness owners are allowed to deduct credit - card interest on business purchases, but consumers can't deduct personal interest charges,» explains Richard M. Colombik, a lawyer and certified public accountant based in Schaumburbusiness purchases, but consumers can't deduct personal interest charges,» explains Richard M. Colombik, a lawyer and certified public accountant based in Schaumburg, Ill..

Examine the realistic decision - making cycle and behavior for your customers, use digital tools to identify more complex insights outside of demographic data, and create a new «funnel» that allows your business to tap into a long - term connection with these individual consumers.

HealthEquity uses a so - called business - to - business - to - consumer model, which allows for distribution of its products through health insurance companies and, by extension, giant companies including Google and American Express.

Small - business owners who allow consumers to see and hear them will garner more trust than those who hide behind stock photos and static text on a web page.

Lately it has been expanding its business by adding transaction services for its merchants allowing consumers to buy products and services from third - party vendors like a marketplace.

As set forth above, as opposed to the stringent regulations in other states such as New York, and the bill proposed in the Assembly last year, which appear to deter companies from spending the time and money to pursue cutting - edge ideas, the Act appropriately balances the need for consumer protection with the desire to allow businesses to innovate.

As set forth below, the Act improves upon the New York and North Carolina regulations by striking a balance that allows virtual currency businesses to innovate and grow, while also providing important consumer safeguards.

«CHRONEXT allows over 1,800 retailers, brands and consumers to do business globally.

CALGARY, Dec. 12, 2017 / CNW / - The Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan (FCAA) has changed its start - up crowdfunding exemption to allow businesses in Saskatchewan and Alberta to raise funds from investors residing in those provinces.

The new approach, being paid to lend, will apply to a special program that allows banks to borrow money for four years, provided they lend the money on to consumers and businesses.

Furman and Stevenson note that while DOL's plan allows businesses to «continue using existing, conflicted business models,» it requires that they adopt «additional consumer protections such as ensuring advisors follow a best interest standard, enacting policies and procedures to manage and mitigate conflicts, and refraining from certain self - dealing transactions.»

Senate Bill 1302 seeks to allow cannabis delivery to private residences for adult use and medical cannabis consumers — even to those in communities with strict bans on cannabis businesses.

«This agreement will benefit businesses and consumers and is part of Rogers focused, strategic game plan,» said Nadir Mohamed, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rogers Communications Inc. «This network and spectrum sharing agreement, combined with the expansion of our LTE footprint, will allow even more consumers to experience the superior connectivity and incredibly fast speeds that LTE delivers.»

A bigger block size, in Ver's mind, will allow far more consumers and businesses to start using the protocol, making censorship through centralization a non-issue.

Tmall Global and other business - to - consumer, or B2C, platforms allow international brands to sell their products directly to China's digital shoppers and break into the market.

On Friday The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, said that Amazon is planning a new service called «Shipping With Amazon» that will allow it to pick up packages from businesses and deliver them to consumers.

Marketing strategies are the most essential function of helping a small business succeed, and Every Door Direct Mail allows you to spread the word of your business directly to your consumers» doorsteps.

The state's trucking industry also keeps the larger, statewide economy moving, allowing businesses to prosper — to the benefit of business owners, employees and consumers of all stripes.

The professional cleaning industry can market to consumer and commercial groups, which can allow you to build a profitable business that you can operate either part - time or full - time.

For more than a decade, Bloomberg has allowed readers to devour journalism on its consumer - facing website at no charge, in the hopes of burnishing its brand, generating advertising dollars and complementing its core terminal business.

«It would allow us to collaborate with packaging manufacturers, businesses involved in plastic collection and reprocessing, and global consumer goods companies.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has granted authorisation allowing a group of small business owner drivers to collectively bargain with Toll Transport Pty Ltd for the supply of air freight courier transport services at the Toll Priority Brisbane depot.

Our flexible packaging business allows the world's biggest brands of food and drink, pharmaceutical, pet food, home and personal care products to reach consumers across Europe, Asia, Oceania, and South America.

Tmall Global and other business - to - consumer, or B2C, platforms allow international brands to sell their products directly to China's digital shoppers and break into the market.

«Across the nutraceuticals industry, demand is increasing for ingredients and for encapsulation technologies that not only deliver high - quality results, but also improve speed - to - market and allow product line extension as they meet consumer needs and preferences,» said Beth Tormey, Vice President, Head of Business Unit, Consumer Health and Nutritionconsumer needs and preferences,» said Beth Tormey, Vice President, Head of Business Unit, Consumer Health and NutritionConsumer Health and Nutrition, Lonza.

«The strategic investment will allow us to continue to further strengthen the Company's position as the primary resource for the 15 + million Celiac and gluten sensitive consumers searching for gluten - free friendly businesses.

1 General comment No. 16 (2013) on State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children's rights * Para 20 «States should ensure that marketing and advertising do not have adverse impacts on children's rights by adopting appropriate regulation and encouraging business enterprises to adhere to codes of conduct and use clear and accurate product labelling and information that allow parents and children to make informed consumer decisions.»

Terms of membership can be adjusted based on need, allowing businesses to prioritize unique goals like web traffic and consumer interaction.

People have been trying to boycott Nestle since the 70s, but they have been continued their hurtful business practices and we as the consumer have allowed it by continuing to purchase Nestle products.

ALBANY — «Gov. David Paterson's proposal to allow the sale of wine in grocery stores is good for the economy and good for consumers,» said Kenneth Adams, president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State.

The Business Council supports the Governor's proposal to allow the sale of wine in grocery stores, as good for the state's economy, good for the state's budget, and good for New York consumers.

«We hope that our elected leaders in Albany will respond to the state's voters,» said Michael Rabinowitz, spokesman for the coalition of business, consumers, unions, wineries, grape growers and farms supporting legislation to allow people to buy wine in grocery stores.

«My hope is that organizations will make it a priority to build a reputation that allows consumers and businesses to be on the same side.»

There are reports that Amazon has a Square reader - like device in the works, one that will plug into a smartphone or tablet (presumably not only the Fire phone or Kindle Fire) and allow small business people to take advantage of the reliance on credit cards that many consumers have.

«We're excited to work with Adobe to pioneer new applications for eBooks and other digital documents,» said Ron Hawkins, vice president of portable reader systems marketing at Sony Electronics, Inc. «This collaboration will give us the opportunity to expand our offerings to a larger audience and new markets, allowing individual consumers, businesses, and other customers to take advantage of the portability and ease of use of Sony's Reader products with a wider spectrum of content.»

They have been selling their digital content directly to consumers but they are pivoting their business to allow independent bookstores to generate revenue and are going to soon be announcing a huge deal with the American Booksellers Association so 2,000 stores across the USA.

They have been selling their digital content directly to consumers but they are pivoting their business to allow independent bookstores to generate revenue and are going to soon be announcing a huge deal with the American Booksellers... [Read more...]

[P] ublishers quickly realized that if market forces were allowed to prevail too quickly, these efficiency enhancing characteristics would rapidly lead to lower consumer prices, improved consumer welfare, and threaten the current business model and available surplus (profit margins).

«We're excited to offer the Kobo Vox eReader in U.S. Best Buy locations where consumers can try our innovative social experience and see the difference that Kobo brings to eReading,» said Todd Humphrey, EVP Business Development, Kobo, Inc. «We're focused on delivering an innovative and easy eReading experience and our expanded footprint throughout the U.S. will allow consumers to experience Kobo first hand and find out why it is the favored choice of millions of readers around the world.»

With ebooks and license agreements, they can essentially opt not do business with libraries (by not allowing circulation as a permitted activity under the license offered) or charge libraries at differential (much higher) rates, as well as manipulating availability (for example, no bestsellers in the library till a year after consumer release).

To test out the next generation mobile broadband Former British Telecom mobile phone network O2 has switched on a 4G LTE network in the capital, which will run for nine months and will allow hundreds of consumers, businesses and venues to gain access to the latest mobile broadband technology.

Merchant service accounts allow businesses to function in much of the same way as standard consumer accounts with the addition of processing credit card orders and receiving small business financing.