Sentences with phrase «big deals took»

Six months later, the next round of big deals took place.

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Next time you order take out, take a moment to register the delivery driver — they could just be kind of a big deal.

Taking one for the team; bidding up and against your own best offer; sucking it up, and accepting a deal that you're not sure the company can afford — these are bad choices and consistent signals that there're bigger issues and problems coming.

Back in 2013 when a buyout took Dell private, hedge fund Magnetar Capital was one of the biggest opponents of the deal.

If the company loses it's biggest customer, for instance, you might be tempted to prop up the troops by saying something like, «It's not a big deal, we'll find another customer to take their place.»

Many careerists don't ask to pitch their idea, for a raise or promotion, a bigger sales deal, or to take on more responsibility.

So if he buys up a chunk of your company, take it as a mark of confidence: The sale of CPPIB's stake in auto parts manufacturer Gates Corp. for $ 1.5 billion and its $ 128 - million purchase of 115,000 acres of Saskatchewan farmland are just two recent examples that show no deal is too big or small for the CCPIB head honcho.

The digital company's decision to enter the brick - and - mortar space is a «pretty big deal,» and «suggests stores are in fact important and not just some defensive point of view that traditional brick - and - mortar players have taken,» he added.

Talk about a great deal: «We're in a position where we can use that tax savings to start taking bigger risks,» says Cheryl Volkman, co-founder of AbleNet, based in Roseville, Minn., a 100 % S corp ESOP with $ 8 million in sales.

It's equally funny that just about no one has stopped to take a realistic look as to whether such devices — which may indeed happen — will in fact be a big deal.

Taking a bold stand, making a dramatic statement, or asking the question that everyone in the room is avoiding is the way to push an initiative forward or sign that next big deal.

Thailand's third - richest man is set to take control of Fraser and Neave (F&N) in Southeast Asia's biggest M&A deal after a group led by an Indonesian tycoon bowed out of a two - month bidding war for the $ 11.4 billion Singapore company.

It focuses instead on the big picture — on what it would take to change the situation altogether so that the result would be that we wouldn't have to deal with a pugnacious colleague at all.

But the serial acquirers that defined the last decade of specialty pharma dealmaking — Teva Pharmaceuticals, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, and Endo International — are no longer in the position to take on bigger deals, as they're all saddled with too much debt.

Banks are reluctant to take the risk, venture capitalists want to almost take full control and major brokerage houses make larger profits through bigger deals that close faster.

Put yourself out of business, and let them get on and run your business day to day, and then you can start dealing with the bigger issues, and you can take the company forward into bigger areas, and you can — maybe if you're an entrepreneur, you can start your second business or your third business.

Missing a utility payment or skipping out on a library fine might seem like no big deal, but if you don't take care of it, and let it sit, the end result can be a lower credit score.

A few big oil and gas deals have come out of the price rout — Royal Dutch Shell's acquisition of BG, worth $ 70 billion, is the largest by far — but more will likely take place in the near term.

«Our headcount doubled as we took on more big name projects, largely because we now had the resources to invest in and win those deals.

Drone industry analyst Colin Snow says that the ability for users to automatically integrate third - party sensors is a big deal, especially because it means their applications can take advantage of the drone's onboard GPS.

Under the terms of the deal Seven gain rights to all home Test matches and 43 matches from the Twenty20 Big Bash League, while Foxtel would have rights to broadcast every ball bowled, simulcasting what is on free - to - air, and taking 50 over one day and Twenty20 international matches exclusively.

Overall, the company has brought in close to $ 950 million since it was founded in 2008 — taking account of initial seed funding, grants and partnership deals with big drugmakers — giving it war chest to finance operations well into 2019.

One of the bigger private equity deals, Belsher notes, was Vista Equity Partners» $ 4.8 - billion take - private acquisition of DH Corp., which provides a range of lending and treasury services to financial institutions, including cheque printing.

- At the same time, both Iran and Iraq must make sacrifices for Saudi Arabia to accept the deal, Iran takes opposite view, insisting Saudi should cut more, as it boosted output most in recent years: oil producers that raised output in past years while Iran was subject to sanctions «will have to shoulder a bigger share of the output drop and accept more responsibility»: oil minister Bijan Zanganeh

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The arrests in Philadelphia have already dealt a big blow to the company's progressive image, which is why Starbucks is taking the dramatic step of closing so many stores for an afternoon of training.

The deal is a huge one by any standard — bigger than Walmart's $ 3.3 billion deal for Jet.com last year — and especially for a retail company like PetSmart, which was itself valued at only $ 8.7 billion when private equity investors took it over in 2015.

The reality is that as an entrepreneur you really do want to try and keep all of your investors happy and it really is fair that early investors who were willing to take a risk on you before you were a BIG DEAL should really be compensated.

One of the biggest and most common mistakes entrepreneurs make, which I have been guilty of myself, is not taking fast corrective action in dealing with a bad hire.

Some entrepreneurs find themselves in a fortunate position in which taking no or little salary for a while isn't really a big deal.

Tuur Can you take us through kind of the basics of what's happening and why this is a big deal.

If it takes a couple of weeks to get a trade done, no big deal.

A more pessimistic take, from someone who would like the deal to go through: A threat of a lawsuit is a very big deal, because if the DOJ carries through, it can tie up the deal for years.

Taking the top spot was a big feather in the firm's cap, given that so many other brokerages saw a drop in deals.

However, taking out any kind of loan is a big financial decision and should be met with a good deal of caution.

In fact, it can take a good deal of vocal control to speak softly, yet carry a big stick.

The big increase in the in the last six months of 2012 was because of tax changes, with entrepreneurs and companies trying to close deals before New Year's to take advantage of capital gains treatment, John Guzzo, managing director of Berkery Noyes, said.

The state took a big hit during the most recent economic troubles, and many Hawaii residents are now carrying a great deal of debt serviced by multiple different lenders, with some of the highest credit utilization in the country.

«If they are the only company taking a one - time tax write off that would be disconcerting but the fact that nearly everyone is doing it implies it is not a big deal,» said Adam Sarhan, chief executive of 50 Park investments, an investment advisory service.

Taking RMDs is not a big deal if you're retired at age 70 1/2 and are already living off your retirement savings.

After noted CNN - hater President Trump took office, the White House enlisted a respected antitrust lawyer, Makan Delrahim, who had earlier told reporters that the merger shouldn't be a big deal; after becoming the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, he changed his mind and said it was a problem.

Now, in the IMS Health case, a big part of explaining why investors might take such a deal is that it offered a nice premium over the recent stock price and they might have been comparing IMS Health to pharmaceutical companies (IMS Health's customers) instead of pharmaceutical services companies (IMS Health's peers).

Qatar Telecom took over rival Wataniya in Kuwait, in one of the biggest telecom deals of the year.

But those are big deals and it's broadening the touch points that we have at customers beyond just the business user into the IT or the shadow IT side and it takes time but we like what we're seeing.

For Dell, a $ 24.4 billion deal to take itself private is a bold move out of Wall Street's harsh spotlight as it tries to remake itself in a world where personal computers are no longer the big business in technology.

i got such a shock when i saw this image and comment, the image took me by suck surprise, after 8 months of not being in church, and not caring what you thought, to start crying in the students union, is kinda a big deal..

If you'll remember, it was a big screamin» deal when John Kennedy took office because he was a Catholic.

When people start taking their theology from comic books — comic books who have no claim of being true — we have bigger problems to deal with.

It is called blogging, auto correct took over, big deal.

Sister Mary Corita chose to answer these questions with the words of William Sloane Coffin: «Because we love the world, we pray now, O [God], for grace to quarrel with it, O Thou whose lover's quarrel with the world is the history of the world... Lord, grant us grace to quarrel with the worship of success and power... to quarrel with all that profanes and trivializes [people] and separates them... number us, we beseech Thee, in the ranks of those who went forth from this place longing only for those things for which Thou dost make us long, [those] for whom the complexity of the issues only served to renew their zeal to deal with them, [those] who alleviated pain by sharing it; and [those] who were always willing to risk something big for something good... O God, take our minds and think through them, take our lips and speak through them.