Sentences with phrase «best business year»

I also want to make 2018 my best business year so far.

For example, imagine if management had decided 5 years ago to make a big dividend increase jump of 25 % on year 1 because it was a very good business year and the outlook are promising.

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According to Canadian Business» 2016 Best Jobs ranking, urban planners now occupy the number two position, with an $ 85,010 median salary and 15 % wage growth over the past five years.

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

And this year I plan to lift up the many businesses that have figured out that doing right by their workers ends up being good for their shareholders, their customers, and their communities, so that we can spread those best practices across America.»

Read about the business leaders who dominated headlines in 2014 and set the stage for the year ahead — for better or for worse.

It's a good time to reflect on your business» progress and plan how you want to grow your business in the new year.

Overall, it has been a good year for small business lending and Small Business Administration (SBA) business lending and Small Business Administration (SBA) Business Administration (SBA) lending.

Beyond this sense of optimism, seven out of 10 business owners said they fared the same or better than they did a year ago in the fourth quarter.

The advantage of having a small business with a smaller customer base is that you are better able to provide your clients with the attention they deserve — the kind of attention that will keep them satisfied and loyal to you for several years.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

Finally, visitors to Digital London will vote on the winner who will receive a collection of business - boosting goodies including, of course, exposure, as well as an exhibition stand at next year's Digital London event, access to Wazoku's idea - management software, production time in a video suite to record a promotional video and # 200 to spend at Moo.

These are the best ratings in more than 10 years, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

This article is part of Fortune's Best in Business 2015 package of highlights and lowlights of the year in business, politics and the economy by the writers and editors of Business 2015 package of highlights and lowlights of the year in business, politics and the economy by the writers and editors of business, politics and the economy by the writers and editors of Fortune.

Schultz: Well, you know, Starbucks has been in business now for 45 - plus years.

These excellent results are supported by the success of our innovation drive in advanced materials, the benefits of increased production capacities in specialty molecular sieves in France and PVDF in China last year, the integration of XL Brands in adhesives and the confirmation of the very good performance of our intermediate chemical businesses.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

Even if you spent your latter years of college grooming your network and making good business connections, you can't expect your first freelancing jobs to come to you.

While hiring was down by 0.1 percent in March, the survey found that nearly 9 in 10, or 87 percent of small businesses, expect the first quarter to be the same or better than a year ago.

You want to get to a there, a point in the future (usually three to five years out) at which time your business will have a different set of resources and abilities as well as greater profitability and increased assets.

A leading organization of financial journalists unveiled its picks for the year's best business writing, and we're delighted to announce that Fortune brought home seven honors.

I read this book well after I started my business, but I think the hardest lesson for entrepreneurs to grasp is that in order to give your business the best chance for success, you need to reinvest the profits for at least the first year.

This year's activities will include forums discussing the small business landscape, business coaching services, matchmaking events as well as networking opportunities and award ceremonies.

For a business exposed to the ups and downs of commodity prices and the costs of the manufacturing sector, Civmec has had a good year.

Although NBCUniversal's theme park revenue was strong compared to the previous year, the entertainment unit's movie business didn't do so well, thanks to some weak releases such as Ride Along 2 and Hail, Caesar!

Overall, 2017 has been a good year for small business lending.

It could be that some businesses are much better off being private, even after years as public companies.

It's a proven business model we've honed for more than 90 years and we are always looking for people as good as our tools.

Only time will tell if Under Armour can return its shoe business to the growth of a year ago, but it doesn't bode well that such a young category for the company is already struggling.

With news of both Jessops and HMV closing down just days after the start of the New Year, for people wishing to start up their own business especially, the outlook isn't good.

Small business sentiment soared to a 12 - year high in December, as business owners looked forward to much better business conditions.

2012 was a phenomenal year, with incredible guests on the Small Businesses Do It Better show!

«I realized that after six years of starting, operating, and growing BirchBox, it was best for me and for the business to step away,» she said.

Here are 10 business leaders who dominated headlines in 2014 and set the stage for the year ahead — for better or for worse.

«Good» debt is typically defined as mortgage, education or business debt because, ideally, each of these investments will generate returns for years to come.

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

Western University's Ivey Business School had a one - year MBA, a good way to pass a year while he figured out what he wanted to do with his career.

The second - hand car business was revolutionised 20 years ago with the arrival of the internet, but there is a second revolution under way that promises to be even more disruptive and could have a significant effect on some of Western Australia's best - known car yards.

Such factors include, among others, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current and future exploration activities; the actual results of reclamation activities; conclusions of economic evaluations; meeting various expected cost estimates; changes in project parameters and / or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; future prices of metals; possible variations of mineral grade or recovery rates; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; political instability; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled «Risk Factors» in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2017 dated March 15, 2018.

For me, one of the most important, and surprising, discoveries over the last few years has been that choosing the best approach to balancing business and social concerns starts with a decision to make shareholder interests the higher priority.

A restaurant may have a few good years but then lose its clientele and go out of business.

When you have years of experience running a business, as I do, you recognize patterns and can give good advice, even if you haven't been close to a specific company.

To learn how Bridgewater seeks out new employees and what it's like to apply there, Business Insider spoke with Brian Kreiter, Bridgewater's head of client service and marketing and cohead of its core management team, as well as several former Bridgewater employees who worked there within the last five years.

To recognize and celebrate National Small Business Week (NSBW), which started Monday, we reached out to the six finalists in the running to win the title of National Small Business Person of the Year and asked them for their very best hiring secrets.

«If your business is going well, that's the time you've got to reinvent it,» says A&W CEO Paul Hollands, a 36 - year company veteran.

If we know that the global network will only spread in the years to come, it goes without saying that well - managed digital strategies should be among the priorities on the list of your New Year business resolutions.

Will your business idea will work well now, but burn out in three years» time?

One of the best things we did for this business was spending four months in the Silicon Valley at Y Combinator program last year.

In the absence of decisive, quick action to tackle this slow - motion crisis, the best - case scenario for the next few years is that America becomes a much riskier place to do business.

The 10 - year agreement gives Rogers (which owns Canadian Business) exclusive broadcast and distribution rights to existing WWE programming such as Raw and Smackdown and pay - per - view events, as well as to its fledgling WWE Network, a dedicated wrestling channel launched in February in the United States.