Sentences with phrase «because of the acquisition»

Revenue from Berkshire's retailing and services businesses, which includes NetJets and Dairy Queen, rose 76 %, in part because of acquisitions.

Profits at Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance surged compared to 2013, when it lost $ 113 in part because of the acquisition of The Hartford Retirement Plans Group for $ 400 million.

Although ACT's credit protection metrics will fluctuate because of acquisitions and variations in gasoline prices, Standard & Poor's believes that the risk of a sharp increase in debt for a major acquisition is reduced somewhat because of the dearth of large targets.

The company expects to increase its revenue by $ 20 million this year because of the acquisition.

Lion said the alcohol sales volume increase came because of its acquisition of international premium and craft brands.

Here patients treated with imatinib become resistant because of the acquisition of mutations in the ABL kinase domain.13

Twice in my career, I have worked in financial reporting in an insurance company where an accounting change would happen because of an acquisition, or some other type of corporate event, such that...

Greencore's debt grew from 23 per cent of shareholders» funds to 61 per cent because of the acquisition of Food Industries, and Mr Murphy acknowledged that Ireland's high interest rates would have an impact.

5) Statutory surplus had to increase at the main P&C insurance subsidiaries, because of the acquisition of Burlington Northern.

American Airlines split its relationship between Barclaycard and Citi in part because of its acquisition of US Airways.

Last year, a rep from Warner Bros. told G4 that while many games were being canceled because of the acquisition, «This is Vegas» was still on track to be released.

Not exact matches

The same logic applies to acquisitions, with Schlein saying a public company acquirer «isn't going to do something stupid» and overpay for a company just because the last round of private investors did.

Although RBC can grow organically in all of these areas, analysts are expecting McKay to make a sizable acquisition, especially because the bank is sitting on more cash than it's had in years.

The firm says it's because two of the market's secret weapons — share buybacks and mergers and acquisitions — saw an uptick at exactly the right time.

Because a corporation can be owned, and because its assets are therefore transferrable, attributing a religion to a corporation would raise thorny questions in cases of corporate acquisitions, mergers andBecause a corporation can be owned, and because its assets are therefore transferrable, attributing a religion to a corporation would raise thorny questions in cases of corporate acquisitions, mergers andbecause its assets are therefore transferrable, attributing a religion to a corporation would raise thorny questions in cases of corporate acquisitions, mergers and so on.

Because Samsung Pay will be compatible with most existing magnetic stripe terminals as well as NFC terminals (as a result of its acquisition of LoopPay), it is going to drive significant payment volume, particularly in the next 5 years.

Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....

Already Yahoo's acquisition has caused many of Tumblr's users to flee because they do not want to be associated with the stodgy parent company.

Outgoing migme chairman Howard Dawson plans to become a director of a Singapore - founded fantasy sports company that is seeking an ASX listing through Nevada Iron, as another Perth company backed out of a tech acquisition because of an ASX ruling.

If I were to allow for an acquisition, the first things that would happen is they would get rid of me — because everybody knows nobody needs a wacky entrepreneur around.

Instead, because Swirl has its own app and audience of users, it became a sort of customer acquisition channel, letting Alex & Ani educate nearby Swirl users about its jewelry.

«You don't want to read too much into this short - term data,» says Craig Hoskins, a Calgary lawyer with Norton Rose Fulbright, noting 2012 was exceptional because of China National Offshore Oil Co.'s $ 15 - billion takeover of Nexen, and Petronas's $ 6 - billion acquisition of Progress Energy.

The uniforms caught my eye because Virgin just got into the banking business with the acquisition of a U.K. bank that we are gradually rebranding Virgin Money.

In February, Verizon (vz) said it would cut the price of its $ 4.5 billion acquisition bid for Yahoo by $ 350 million because of the data breaches and related aftermath.

A lot of companies are looking to use that cash for acquisitions because they're really getting it at 70 cents on the dollar.

According to the Wall Street Journal, people who had shorted SolarCity stock will have to scramble to rebuy shares that have gone up because of the potentially less - than - arm's - length acquisition offer.

Lots of people become entrepreneurs because of an unexpected career shock, such as a corporate acquisition or layoff.

Cree excludes these items because they arise from Cree's prior acquisitions and have no direct correlation to the ongoing operating results of Cree's business.

Because of the likelihood that pursuing an acquisition will boost a company's revenue growth and thus its share price, investors have increasingly been pressuring pharmaceutical firms such as Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Teva to strike deals.

Having their votes no longer in the mix could prove to be one of the best uses of funds in the acquisition deal structure, because it's an easy way to close out their positions (which includes all their comments, questions and opinions on everything pertaining to running the company).

Teva could also become an unlikely white knight for Perrigo as it seeks to fend off Mylan, because Teva's proposed acquisition of Mylan hinges on the Perrigo deal's collapse, Teva said in its presentation.

1) Because it can: Financially, an acquisition of Netflix would not be a problem for Apple.

That's because with larger acquisitions, «you start getting questions on national security... and overall stability and growth of the Chinese economy, so there's a lot more scrutiny over large, marquee deals,» said Benjamin Cavender, principal at consulting firm China Market Research.

He says they were able to do it so quickly because most of the applications and the cloud's web hosting feature already existed, touch applications for tablets were already being worked on, and value - adds such as cloud - based access to fonts were ready via the October 2011 acquisition of Typekit.

«Foreign technology acquisition through various means remains a prime focus under Made in China 2025 because China is still catching up in many of the areas prioritized for development,» USTR said in its report justifying the tariffs.

The company's new - found religion on harassment may have also been sparked by the fact that at least two of the companies that were rumored to be considering an acquisition of Twitter last fall — Salesforce and Disney — reportedly shelved the idea in part because of the environment of abuse that exists on the platform.

«It was easy for SuccessFactors to pull the trigger on acquiring Jobs2web, despite an extremely competitive acquisition fight for them, because they have so many powerful assets,» Lars Dalgaard, the founder and CEO of SuccessFactors, said in a statement.

Even SoundCloud, one of the most popular streaming platforms on the Internet, has reported that they are quickly running out of cash and exploring potential acquisition deals (not so much out of choice, but by necessity) because artists have no way to monetize their audiences.

He has an outperform rating on the stock because of «its attractive earnings and free cash flow growth profile, driven by existing operations and contributions from recent acquisitions.»

Dimon said the Bear acquisition ended up costing J.P. Morgan $ 20 billion, in large part because of fines, which Dimon said was way more than he and his team were expecting.

But the acquisition hasn't closed because of an unresolved dispute with a person claiming to be a cofounder of the company.

Miller also wanted to «keep our financing costs at some kind of fixed interest rate, because then I'd be able to factor that into potential acquisitions to see if they made financial sense for us.»

The reason there could have been delays for the IPO was because of Facebook's $ 1 billion acquisition of Instagramand its deal with Microsoft.

The risks involved in making a corporate acquisition - whether of a large asset, a division of an existing company, or even a competitor - are enormous, in part because there are so many unknowns to consider.

A source with knowledge of the discussions with Twitter (TWTR) said that contrary to the report in the Journal, the acquisition talks didn't fall apart over price, or because Twitter didn't like Flipboard's user numbers.

As such, customer success makes much more sense to include in your CAC ratio, not in pure CAC, because you'll want to measure the efficiency of your acquisition teams independently.

Because of this growth, it's also an industry that's the target of acquisitions.

The acquisition rumors started primarily because of the fact that Andreessen Horowitz, which invested in Instagram's seed round when it was still a location - based «check - in» service called Burbn, is now backing competitor Picplz.

The acquisition of Jos. A. Bank by Men's Wearhouse was especially unique because it originally looked as if the deal would be the other way around.

It's also an acquisition that is tapping into another trend: we're living longer and getting more and more conscious of our health, and in some cases we're not actually getting healthier, with weight issues affecting a lot of our sedentary population, and other illnesses like diabetes growing in prevalence because of wider changes in our diets.