Sentences with phrase «around companies headed»

Harry Wilson has spent his career turning around companies headed for bankruptcy.

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It creates a lot of excitement around the company, with the staff and everyone in head office.

In so doing, Pfender goes over the heads of those companies» traffic managers, who typically negotiate the rates for transporting their goods around the globe.

And they want to wrap their heads around how the work that we do as a company impacts our customers.

«You're going to see a more united approach around prospecting to acquisition and retention teams working together, and over time that will really build a predictive acquisition model,» says Monica Girolami, head of North America marketing at NewVoiceMedia, a company that links inbound and outbound communications through Salesforce.

Around this time, business magnate Marcus Loew and film producer Samuel Goldwyn merged companies to form Metro - Goldwyn film studios for which Mayer was asked to head.

To try and wrap our heads around just how valuable Uber is in the eyes of investors, we used the market caps of a few publicly traded companies as a benchmark.

The company's 44 plants around the world operate as largely autonomous entities, and are limited in head count and footprint to retain agility and collegiality.

«Sue [Heilbronner] and Elizabeth [Kraus, both co-founders of MergeLane] helped Naomi and I get our heads around the fact that this could be a real company,» says Dunaway.

Dave Stafford, who heads human resources for the company, says last year, it had to plan around losing most of a lab team made up entirely of older workers.

In an effort to turn the company around, CEO Steve Ells said in November that he would be stepping down from his post as head of the company as soon as Chipotle found someone to replace him.

The time it has taken investors and traders to wrap their heads around Trump's industry tariffs and the pyrrhic victory of two solar companies in a case against cheap Chinese imports has seen stocks rally in a big way, and then fall just as hard.

Facebook has named a new head of U.S. public policy as the company deals with ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and increasing pressure over privacy around the world.

«These companies have not gotten their heads around the idea that the data they collect is more than just their property.»

Given the company's relatively strong position now and the uncertainty of the future, some Wall Street sources are scratching their heads wondering why the Nordstrom family would even consider cutting a deal that would give a new investor preferred shares, noting that the idea was likely thrown on the table to see what would trigger private equity interest.That has brought some private equity firms back in for another around of talks, but one source noted: «Private equity these days don't really want to commit any money to brick - and - mortar.

Around the same time Gangadhar joined Cruise, the company also hired long - time Netflix executive Tawni Cranz to be its new chief human resources officer and former program manager at Google Maps Ashwin Prabhu to be its head of mapping operations.

As companies have struggled to get their heads around «big data» — the notion that useful business insights can come from a thorough analysis of data gathered in the course of daily operations — they have increasingly turned to Hadoop technologies to simplify the process.

What I couldn't wrap my head around was this: How can a company that espouses Christian values also support sweatshop labor?

«With the right management team in charge, they felt they could turn the company around, head in the right direction and bring back the shareholder value that had been lost over the years,» Brush explains.

Also known for its unique design capabilities including 3D modeling of systems and components, Unitherm works head - to - head with engineers from top - flight companies around the world in developing and building custom cooking systems.

Gesturing around at Marlow & Sons, Reynolds — whose general contracting company is called Execution by Design — told me that a lot of the aesthetic was inspired by old French and Italian restaurants, and the all - purpose Irish pubs («Some are grocery store, bar, undertaker, post office — everything but a church») he'd been to in the west of Ireland, while visiting his father's family or heading out to the country while at school in Galway.

I call him an employee in a society that just accepts how large companies will lie to get around stuff, blame a figure head so when the mass public become upset they can remove the figurehead without removing the actions that make them money, move along a few years and we see the same stuff happening again.

A lot my friends who are new moms and were heading back to work joked about how no matter how much companies try to dress it up, a breast pump bag is always a breast pump bag, and everyone always knows what you're lugging around in that bag.

Whether you want to work in academia or for a company, you'll need to get your head around different roles in a trial

What's needed is for the world's cartographers, heads of state, and perhaps whoever's in charge of Google Earth to sit down around a table and finish the job that Lambton, Everest, and company left undone.

The company is based around novel compounds, including NAV - 847, discovered and developed by the cross-functional drug discovery team within IACS led by Philip Jones, Ph.D., executive director and head of drug discovery at IACS.

It's unlikely that the fossil fuel companies will deny in court what is widely accepted by authoritative scientific bodies around the world: that human emissions have already begun to warm the planet, that the harm is already being felt, that the risks of future harm are significant, and that to head them off emissions have to be rapidly reduced.

It's so delicious, I can't wrap my head around how companies like Lean Cuisine didn't go completely in the red when you guys hit the market.

I've finally wrapped my head around this and can move forward growing the company, confident I have invested in a sound structure.

In summer 2016, the company laid off around 6 percent of its staff, all of whom worked in the publicity department, and saw the resignation of publicity head Adam Keen, distribution chief Travis Reid, and former Anonymous Content producer Alix Madigan, among many more.

He's looking at a promotion from his blowhard boss Hunter (Kelsey Grammer) if he can do just one thing: fire Orphan Tulip (Katie Crown), the awkward, red - headed 18 - year - old human who hangs around the company's warehouse threatening productivity and profitability with her every move.

The other yak - track reunites makeup head and creature performer Walter Phelan, creature effects head (and head of the company who did the effects for the series) Todd Masters, mechanical effects guy Thomas Bellissimo, and visual effects supervisor John van Vilet and is full of great information congenially delivered, along with a lot of fooling around.

A great deal of the plot revolves around Turner Claymore (Hammond), the head of the company, who's contracted a disease that the vampires call «the retardations» — more or less their equivalent of Alzheimer's — and is on the verge of revealing the company's secret to the outside world.

But there are some things that all companies need to get their heads around to determine if the organization is ready for eLearning.

She is the recipient of the inaugural Global Teacher Prize, chosen by the prominent Global Teacher Prize Academy made up of head - teachers, educational experts, commentators, journalists, public officials, tech entrepreneurs, company directors, and scientists from around the world.

«As a company, we work to minimize our impact on the world around us, so this project's innovative approach to tackling a major environmental problem was a great fit for us — not least as we head towards an electric future.»

Even if you still can't wrap your head around any sort of Lamborghini SUV, be it an LM002 or an Urus, take comfort in one very important fact: The Urus» success will almost singlehandedly bankroll the company's commitment to future super sports cars, including Lamborghini's nascent electrification efforts.

BMW's head of product management for front - wheel drive vehicles, Frank Niederlaender, told Automotive News Europe that the company estimates around 75 percent of BMW 2 Series Active Tourer customers will be first - time BMW buyers.

The head of sales for Ferrari West Asia and Africa, Aurelien Sauvard said the company has received eight bookings so far for the new model from the country where already around 50 cars are on the road.

Designed by a team led by Peter Schreyer, the man responsible for turning around the company's visual appeal, and developed by Albert Biermann, Kia's new head of development and former chief engineer at BMW's venerable M division, the Stinger takes Kia to one of the most hotly contested segments in the industry.

Despite the reports and rumors that swirl around bookseller Barnes and Noble, the company has managed to keep its head above water in the retail bookselling space, both physically and online.

Jay Parker, Lenovo's head of consumer / SMB operations for North America, recently told AllThingsD that the company plans to offer Android tablets «for the foreseeable future,» but that it will offer only Android slates built in the Kindle Fire mold: small, cheap, and designed for playing around.

The retail veteran, who headed companies from Wickes to Iceland, wanted to produce a book as a platform to raise issues about the woeful state of UK High Streets and the lack of action around this crucial issue.

«But, I think now that we've had that initial blast and got our heads around things, we will start to see significant moves, and I think you can start to see the steps being taken here and there by different companies to put together... and it's certainly the case with PRH as we've spent the last year and a half creating an entirely fresh team at the centre of the business that have been looking at these questions... I'd hestitate to call what's happened a merger because in our function it's constant renewal, in that sense I think publishing has always been disruptive.»

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK - A), the firm that he heads that functions as a holding company, purchased Lubrizol for around $ 10 billion in 2011.

«As a global investment management company, Franklin Templeton Investments is proud to sponsor Jessica Korda, a young woman with great promise and dedication who will be participating in premier golf events around the world,» said Wendy Harrington, executive vice president and head of Global Marketing Services for Franklin Templeton Investments.

In all my reading, there is something I still struggle to wrap my head around, and that's how to value Financial companies.

Its products (various styles, including golf umbrellas, available for around U.S. $ 35 to $ 45 U.S. through umbrellasandbeyond.com) are also guaranteed for life against breakage, and the company tests them using a wind tunnel at its head office in Farmingdale, N.Y. Lacking similar facilities, we tightly gripped a Gustbuster Classic behind a motorboat ripping along at 60 km an hour on Ontario's windy Georgian Bay.

Many corporate firms have their Sydney head offices located in the region around the hotel and many corporate headquarters of companies such as JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Ernst and Young and others are just around the corner from the Metro on Pitt Hotel.

We headed to our Inca Trail (Tour Company, Alpaca Expeditions, office) debriefing around 6 pm to pay our remaining balances, get all the necessary information for what to bring and what to expect and to get hyped up for the next four days ahead.