Sentences with phrase «big acquisitions last»

That was why, he said, that Berkshire had largely avoided big acquisitions last year.

Not exact matches

(Mergers and acquisitions were also a big theme among the Fortune 500's fastest - growing companies last year, but not for all of them.)

The company, with over $ 41 billion in sales last year, placed a bigger bet on the packaged meats space with the $ 7.7 billion acquisition of Hillshire Brands in 2014.

«During the last 15 years, we tended to go out on an acquisition spree, buy a bunch of revenue, buy a bunch of infrastructure and sites, and not be able to retain the big customers,» he says.

Keep in mind last year at Sundance, we produced the film that won the jury prize [«I Don't Feel at Home In This World Anymore»], and we acquired «Mudbound» in the biggest acquisition of the festival.

The aQuantive deal was Microsoft's biggest acquisition until the company bought Skype for $ 8.5 billion last year.

On a recent conference call, the CEO explained a $ 700 million share repurchase as follows: «The reason that I made the biggest acquisition in the history of the company this last month was because the company is so cheap.»

In the last few years, Facebook has made 14 big acquisitions, and spent over $ 25B on them.

Would they back him to wring value out of an even bigger acquisition than last year's $ 754 million buy of Diageo's United States wine business?

The Dunvar Vineyards acquisition by Casella Family Brands, one of the country's biggest winemakers, was its third of the year following deals to buy Howcroft Estate Vineyards near South Australia's Limestone Coast for $ 9 million in February and Hawthorn Ridge and Reedy Creek vineyard in McLaren Vale for $ 12.4 million last month.

Speculation about other possible mergers and acquisition were also rife after reports emerged last month that Spain's biggest Cava producer, Freixenet, has received a buyout offer, with German drinks group Henkell & Co. also confirming it was in preliminary talks with the Catalan company over a possible «co-operation».

Williams had all but given up on free - agent acquisition Tim Stoddard ($ 500,000 a year, 1 - 5, 3.64), and when he used him in desperation last week, the big righthander lost two games.

The hefty transfer fee attached to any permanent transfer would represent a big gamble by a club still struggling to get the best out of another expensive acquisition, Angel Di Maria, who joined for # 59.7 m from Real Madrid last summer.

1) offload the deadwood at the risk of breaking even at least before the end of July to reduce the squad # and lighten the wage bill (2 things more important than making # # #) 2) make the proper acquisition to not only lift the squad but also to protect in the case you still have to sell players like Sanchez or Ox It was a summer where the fans gave Wenger one last chance to tweak his approach sell who needed to go and make proper big signings... he failed in both.

In Game 2, the big free agent acquisition from last offseason poured in 28 points and added 12 rebounds in 33 minutes of action.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

In a rare stroke of humility, Sanders said Rhodes, who was fired as coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and then the Green Bay Packers after the last two seasons, «was the Redskins» biggest acquisition of the off - season.»

Croxon also asks the Plenty of Fish founder about what led him to sell his business last year, with The Match Group agreeing to buy the site for a massive $ 575m — the dating industry's biggest ever acquisition.

This purchase marks the firm's second big acquisition within the dating sector in the past six months, after it acquired white label leader Dating Factory last year.

This is the second big dating acquisition by the tech firm in the past six months, after buying white label leader Dating Factory last year.

After last year's acquisition of Manchester by the Sea saw Amazon Studios bag its first Oscars, the online firm outbid rivals to score The Big Sick in a record $ 12 million deal, also securing the US rights to prison drama Crown Heights.

The sumptuously filmed classical drama will be a strong awards contender (for cinematography as well as foreign film) and could prove an art - house hit in North America, adding to such Amazon successes as Kenneth Lonergan's «Manchester by the Sea» (Roadside Attractions) and Asghar Farhadi's «The Salesman» (Cohen Media), which both won Oscars, as well as last year's Sundance acquisition, summer hit «The Big Sick» (Lionsgate), which earned an Original Screenplay nomination.

For example, one of last year's biggest acquisitions, «Infinitely Polar Bear,» still hasn't made it to theaters, while several of last year's most - buzzed hits («Blue Ruin,» «The Double,» «Locke») were available nationwide shortly.

DC was long a Comixology exclusive, and their moving to another platform is the first big shakeup of the Amazon acquisition — somehow we think it's not the last.

Similar to what Walmart did with the purchase of Jet.com last year, the acquisition presents PetSmart with an opportunity to expand its e-commerce reach and removes a huge source of online competition that was constantly undercutting the big - box pet chain on price.

«Last year was an encouraging year with many big milestones being reached including our successful acquisition of London Stansted Airport, Manchester's 75th anniversary, having our busiest summer in five years and passing the 20 million passenger mark.

Hyatt is continuing its big push into wellness travel with last summer's acquisition of Exhale, a spa brand with 25 locations in markets throughout Hawaii, the mainland United States and the Caribbean.

Take - Two Interactive Software Inc (TTWO.O) had until recently been an acquisition target of bigger rival Electronic Arts ERTS.O, but the maker of the popular «Grand Theft Auto» series said last month it planned to remain an independent company.

This last hurrah offers everything you'd expect from an adventurer who started life as Indiana Jones's spiritual understudy and grew to be a contemporary of equal - standing — ancient antiquity acquisitions, swashbuckling violence and the biggest set - piece moments this side of Señor Spielbergo.

The acquisition, the biggest in VF's 112 - year history, will push its sales of outdoor and sports gear to more than half the total, which reached $ 7.7 billion last year.

Last month, Zuora — an enterprise subscription services company — filed to go public amid a fresh wave of enterprise IPOs that included Dropbox and Zscaler (and also, to a certain extent, Salesforce's big acquisition of Mulesoft).

That last fact remains true despite rumored acquisition interest from Microsoft itself, along with pretty much every big company in the sector you can name.

Rival big box stores have been doing whatever they can to compete with Amazon in recent years, particularly Walmart, which may be Amazon's biggest threat following last year's acquisition of Jet.com.

While not as big of a name as, say, the iPad, tech enthusiasts remember the device as a pioneer in the Android tablet market and one of the company's last great products before the acquisition carousel spun up.

With Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility last year, manufacturers of Android - based devices such as Samsung are, as evidenced by their announcement today *, making moves to cut down their reliance on the big G.

Ashford took a big bite last year with its $ 1.3 - billion acquisition of the 17 - hotel Highland Hospitality portfolio through a joint venture with Prudential Financial.

The company's last big acquisition was the $ 155 million purchase of the Hilton Waikoloa Village in Hawaii in the first quarter of 2002.

For example, a joint venture between BIG Shopping Centers USA and M&J Wilkow Ltd. secured a CMBS loan for its acquisition of The Waterfront in suburban Pittsburgh last fall.

In August of last year, Mills was able to get rid of one of its biggest problems — the to - be-developed Xanadu Meadowlands entertainments complex in Bergen County, N.J. by signing a $ 2 billion financing deal with Colony Capital Acquisitions and Kan Am USA Management.

Blackstone Group LP jumped to the top spot in real estate acquisitions in New York last year, with purchases that encompassed Manhattan's biggest apartment complex and stakes in a group of office properties including the Starrett - Lehigh building on the Hudson River.