Sentences with phrase «as big a target»

Cholesterol busters Demos didn't originally see this group as a big target market but changed his mind after the Food and Drug Administration certified in 1999 that soy protein can help fight coronary heart disease.

Everton, who are close to finalising a deal for Malaga's Sandro Ramirez, want more attacking options and Gray has emerged as a big target for Ronald Koeman's side.

But as 47 pursues his quarry, he begins to see a bigger and more important mission in front of him, and his decision to pursue that new objective makes him as big a target as Katia herself.

The CEO of Orbitz recently set himself up as a big target claiming their rewards program is «transformational» and the «biggest thing to happen to online travel in 10 years.»

Not exact matches

Just a few years ago, privacy was a big issue as regular people started to understand that big companies like Facebook, Target, Walmart and others were using sophisticated technologies to understand users on an individual level.

We targeted current leaders, since they exert direct, measurable sway beyond their own boardrooms as they steer their companies to respond to big - picture external conditions: the economy, politics, technology, markets and customers.

The nation's biggest miners, BHP and Rio Tinto, are being targeted as part of a near $ 1 billion corporate tax grab and the major banks have been warned they could face a bank levy if the new West Australian government can not pass its budget measures.

Ruchi Soya could give Patanjali a big leg - up as its ambitious evangelist co-founder Ramdev has set a target to dominate the Indian FMCG market.

While no single MDC agency, particularly in Canada, was big enough to handle an account with needs as varied as Target's, together they put together a competitive offering.

To meet that target, the average Couche - Tard store keeps getting bigger, as the food - service area — once just a roller grill, a coffee pot and a Froster machine — grows to accommodate an ever - expanding array of on - the - go foods.

Canada provides a safe place for American retailers to expand because the consumers and laws are so similar to those south of the border, and other retailers such as Target are also planning a big push into Canada in the coming months.

While their customer and financial data may not be as big of a catch as, say, that of Target or some other global big - box retail chain, there are plenty of opportunities to hit mom and pop operations.

Finances aside, Target's bigger challenges are stubbornly centred on unhappy customers whose loyalty has been stretched thin by a series of supply - chain snafus and prices that many perceived to be out - of - whack with both big - box competitors and the company's own reputation as a quality discounter.

The premise of all these pitches is that you can take any good idea for a product, service or network (typically someone else's idea, who is already hitting it out of the park) and shrink that business down to a narrower target population or niche, or to a certain kind of consumer, and instantly turn the process of serving that smaller segment into a big business as well.

Slattery also described Asia as a «big target market,» with a third of the 150 - seat market located in this region.

The rollback of these privacy rules wouldn't be as big of a deal to people if they had a choice between an ISP that collects data en masse and one that makes it a point not to serve up targeted ads.

At the same time, big - name department store retailers such as JC Penney, Macy's, Wal - Mart, Kohls and Target are collectively responsible for an estimated 300,000 hires, in some cases, increasing their staff by almost half.

Big retailers such as Amazon and Target are pushing same - day delivery and in - store pickup as a big competitive differentiator — especially for last - minute shoppeBig retailers such as Amazon and Target are pushing same - day delivery and in - store pickup as a big competitive differentiator — especially for last - minute shoppebig competitive differentiator — especially for last - minute shoppers.

I don't know what you were doing when you were 14, but it probably wasn't signing a licensing deal to get your product into big name retailers such as Barnes and Noble and Target.

Older generations, the ones who own the big companies and big brands, then need Millennials to help translate those messages to the demographics they hope to target — and in turn, we, as Millennials, need the older generations to help support our wild ideas.

Big businesses such as Home Depot, Jimmy John's, Michaels and Target have made headlines for credit card hacks in the past year.

Big companies such as Target, Home Depot, Michaels, P.F. Chang's and JP Morgan fell victim to data breaches, and 2015 is already heading down a similar path.

Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly raised the possibility of a link between the malware and network break - ins at such big retailers as Target and Home Depot.

Not content to run with the pack — or «blessing,» as a group of unicorns is sometimes known — venture capitalists have begun targeting even bigger game.

Government officials are orchestrating a reversal of fortune for workers as they target low - level employees of major financial institutions, leaving the big fish in their corner offices.

They will also impact many of Wal - Mart's big retail rivals, such as Target Corp (TGT.N), and fast - food chains like McDonald «sCorp (MCD.N).

This is what I've referred to in the past as the «valley of death,» when you are not big enough to compete with the major players in your industry but not small enough or targeted enough to survive at a smaller scale.

Just as in the U.S., outside agencies are playing a big part in selling the Target message in Canada.

U.S. giant Target is shaking up Canada's retail landscape as it prepares to open its first big - box stores here.

Identity theft has taken on a new dimension over the past couple of years as hackers increasingly target big retail in their attempts to steal consumers» financial information.

The goal, as The Guardian reported, was to combine social media's reach with big data analytical tools to create psychographic profiles that could then be manipulated in what Bannon and Cambridge Analytica investor Robert Mercer allegedly referred to as a military - style psychological operations campaign — targeting U.S. voters.

Just wrapped three solid months collaboration between Sales, Management, and Creative — across TWO organizations — and we're thinking we need to do something this big — for specific target accounts — as often as we possibly can.

A Bloomberg article suggests that cryptocurrency's big breakthrough in the country occurred in 2016, when scammers conducting a long - running Ponzi scheme known as MMM began demanding payment in bitcoin because the government had started targeting their bank accounts.

Government action to influence the price of goods might strike Canadians as out of place in the Conservative playbook but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories are acutely concerned about dispelling the notion they're the party of «big business» as they target middle - class voters.

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

The fund, which is targeting $ 100 billion for technology investments, already has attracted investments from such big hitters as Apple, Qualcomm, Foxconn and Oracle co-founder and former CEO, Larry Ellison.

Since Canadians see our commitment to our target as credible, that makes it much easier for us to reach our mandated goal without needing big swings in output or interest rates.

They initially targeted urban millennial women, but the audience has grown to include a broader demographic (20 percent of Skimm readers are male), no doubt a reason why, when they closed their Series A funding at the end of last year, they raised more than $ 6.25 million from investors like RRE, Greycroft Partners, and Homebrew, as well as big names like Irving Azoff, the former chief executive of Ticketmaster, and even Chelsea Handler.

Jones was certainly touted by Kalanick as a big hire when he arrived at Uber last fall from Target, where he was its well - regarded CMO.

These factors make him a decent influencer to target, though you'll notice his engagement factor isn't as personal or frequent as some other big names in the SaaS industry.

As for inflation in general, Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer has said that there is «good reason» to believe that inflation will move back up to the Fed's annual target of 2 % as the US economy's untapped capacity gets used up and as the effect of the big dip in oil prices in the second half of 2014 wears ofAs for inflation in general, Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer has said that there is «good reason» to believe that inflation will move back up to the Fed's annual target of 2 % as the US economy's untapped capacity gets used up and as the effect of the big dip in oil prices in the second half of 2014 wears ofas the US economy's untapped capacity gets used up and as the effect of the big dip in oil prices in the second half of 2014 wears ofas the effect of the big dip in oil prices in the second half of 2014 wears off.

Companies such as Target Corporation, The Home Depot, Inc., Walt Disney Company, and Amazon.com, Inc. are big holdings for mutual funds and exchange - traded funds that focus on consumer discretionary stocks.

As of Monday, there has been no official comments on the latest move to target miners, who has enjoyed big support from government policies, categorizing employees in the sector as high - tech workerAs of Monday, there has been no official comments on the latest move to target miners, who has enjoyed big support from government policies, categorizing employees in the sector as high - tech workeras high - tech workers.

A fluctuating Canadian currency is the major challenge many companies are facing when exporting, but competition in the target market, as well as regulations and tariffs, are also big barriers to success.

Really interesting article, targeting long tail keywords as been proving overtime to be the best way to compete for search traffic with the BIG establish brand names outthere.

Until now no - one has seriously considered FMG as a candidate for merger and acquisition activity, except as a target for a bigger company such as Brazil's iron ore giant, Vale, or a big Chinese steel mill.

As cryptocurrency prices continue to rise, crypto exchanges will become an even bigger target for cyber criminals.

Especially in the latter case but also in the former, however, it's not typical for whole neighborhoods to be targeted in fraudulent cases, as that is (a) a lot riskier than doing something to your own property both in terms of getting caught in the first place as well as the penalties you will incur, (b) makes you at most part of something apparently bigger and denies the fraudster of the unique victimhood they seek and (c) in the case of insurance fraud, involves damaging things you can't collect on.

Alcohol ads are still overwhelmingly targeted to men — and will likely continue to be at this year's big game — with women either completely excluded or included only as sex objects.

As a result, behemoths of the coffee industry have targeted the Chinese coffee market making the Chinese market grow bigger and bigger.