Sentences with phrase «big increase in our business»

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To inspire small business owners to increase their levels of physical activity, Funding Circle created this infographic highlighting the approximated daily and weekly caloric expenditures of some of the biggest names in business, according to exercise routine.

«Most small - business owners don't want to get bigger because they find that having more employees simply increases the amount of work they have to do, and in exchange the increase in profits just doesn't justify it,» he says.

Complex families are a big driver of the increase, said paper co-author Robert A. Pollak, a professor of economics at the Olin Business School of Washington University in St. Louis.

After being featured, the company saw a marked increase in orders and the coverage provided a boost in growth, helping turn a niche brand into a big business.

A big question is how businesses will spend the increase in profits.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

In a meeting with the heads of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies, Trump suggested he might increase the application fees to discourage businesses from bulk filing.

Mining is big business in Canada — and the metals and minerals we're producing are essential to increase the global supply of solar panels, wind turbines, smart grids, LED light bulbs and electric cars.

If their actions against each other's exports are big enough or go on long enough, they can have a devastating impact on each other's economies: destroying businesses, increasing unemployment, and raising the price of vital goods in both countries.

In terms of promotion, this business has been very promotional for a while and you are not going to see big increases in promotions quarter to and then in any given time perioIn terms of promotion, this business has been very promotional for a while and you are not going to see big increases in promotions quarter to and then in any given time perioin promotions quarter to and then in any given time perioin any given time period.

But perhaps the biggest irony of these criticisms is that even with the tax increases brought in by Ms. Notley's NDP, corporate and small business tax rates are still lower than they were when Mr. Day served in Premier Ralph Klein «s cabinet.

Investments include increases in affordable - housing and small - business lending totaling around $ 15 billion, a raise in hourly wages for 22,000 employees of an average 10 percent, 400 new branches in U.S. banking markets and bigger philanthropic contributions.

I believe JD's recent increase in logistics investments is a bid to attract a bigger third - party business over time and to provide some additional value over Alibaba's T - mall.

Mr. Lennox «is a business leader and marketer who believes in the power of big ideas, the strength of teamwork and the ability to drive increased sales thorugh innovation and customer loyalty,» said Jeff Gennette, current Macy's president who will become chief executive next year.

«Overnight, there has been a tremendous increase in our sales,» Oliver Heuschuch, head of trading for Degussa's gold business, one of the biggest German physical dealers, told Reuters.

gas pipeline across Canada 3) Harper could have built the crude oil pipeline across Canada My question to you is as follows... Generally speaking, I am in favour of governmental decisions that are biased in favour of big business because they are more likely to invest and expand business and as a corollory will produce more jobs and increase prosperity.

While the convenience store business remains strong, increased competition from dollar stores and big - box retailers created new challenges for Northern Star Foods, the company's grocery store in Deer River.

Big Data is a name for the recent increase in largely external and unstructured business and consumer information.

In what, some of you might find as an attempt to improve the team by bringing big names like Ozil and Sanchez, I see a method of increasing business in disguisIn what, some of you might find as an attempt to improve the team by bringing big names like Ozil and Sanchez, I see a method of increasing business in disguisin disguise.

A party pursuing an agenda of increased tax and redistribution, regulation and nationalisation is never going to have a cosy relationship with media barons and big business in general (though it's worth noting that the corporate lobbyists who stayed away from last year's conference came flooding back this time) but it can reach people in other ways.

In addition, there will be increased spending on public services, the NHS, education and so on, financed by increasing taxes on big businesses and the rich.

Its National Chairman, John Walker, said: «The increase in VAT to 20 per cent will however, hurt small firms who will have to pass the increase on to their customers, unlike big business which can absorb the cost.»

Time Warner is always one of the state's biggest donors, but the amount of business it has before government has increased since it has been involved in potential mergers with Comcast Corporation and then Charter Communications.

But Mann thinks that expensive disasters are catching the attention of big businesses who can't afford to ignore an issue that could increase their costs in a big way.

The business also said its core English - speaking markets — the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada — have seen an big increase in registrations this year, recording a 92 % year - to - date growth for 2016.

Looking at the latest financial report from January 31st, Eurogamer notes that the business saw a big increase in profit of 70 % (the nine months ending 31st December 2016 versus the same period in 2015).

This increases your self - efficacy, confidence, and motivation to keep learning, and the snowball of returns in the form of business and personal transformation just keeps getting bigger.

Finally, the No Child Left Behind era — which in fact left many children behind — will be over, and its successor is being hailed by some in the worlds of education, business, and public policy as a big step toward increasing educational opportunities for the nation's students.

Selling books has long been big business, and in today's highly competitive publishing industry, with the increasing rise and popularity of ebooks, it's no wonder.

And all of those events — the devices, the ebook surge, the introduction of the agency business model, and the Department of Justice suing most of the big publishers, a very noticeable rise in successful independent publishing, and the increased leverage of the trading partners with whom publishers negotiate their revenues and their costs — were head and body blows to the titans of the industry.

At the same time, I studied business in college and I know we take on the risk of letting Amazon getting too big and then using that power to increase their margins as they shrink the royalties of authors published through them.

Higher gas prices keep people on the job The oil and gas industry is big business in the U.S.; the American Petroleum Institute predicts that the number of jobs in the sector will increase by 1.3 million through 2030.

«TransUnion's study has confirmed the conventional wisdom that transactors — those consumers who pay off their entire balance each month — are better risks than revolvers, i.e. consumers who only pay a portion of their balance, and moreover has quantified just how big an increase in risk revolvers represent,» said Ezra Becker, co-author of the study and vice president of research and consulting in TransUnion's financial services business unit.

The bigger risks worth monitoring are changes in state regulations, population growth trends in key states, increased environmental regulations, and execution of the company's business strategy (e.g. large projects and acquisitions).

Once again it's the Europe - Hawaii route that sees the biggest hit with an incredible 40 % increase in the number of AAdvantage miles needed for a Business Class award.

Finally, no - show fees if you want the miles redeposited saw a big increase if you are flying in premium economy, business class, or first class / Suites Class.

Credit cards are big business for airlines, and Southwest Airlines is looking to spark an increase in...

Gaining these types of contacts with professional journalists and businesses alike can increase your exposure, making it more likely that the biggest sponsors will come to you as your crew gains prominence through play or simply being in the right place at the right time and ready to seize the opportunity.

«We found that several vulnerable elements in Earth's climate system — like the Amazon and other big rain forests, like the great ice sheets that have so much sea level locked up in their ice — could be pushed toward abrupt or irreversible change if we go on toward 2100 with our business - as - usual increase in emissions of greenhouse gases,» he said.

In case you still think that business - as - usual carbon emissions aren't a big deal: The EIA has released a new forecast of how much emissions will increase by 2030 without strong binding emission reduction targets.

Above all, take this as a reminder that GM crops are far far more about big business and big profits for their developers than they are about increasing crop yields, feeding more people either in rich or poor nations, or developing climate - resistant agriculture.

As I mentioned in my recent post about how to increase your firm's profitability, one of the biggest increases in revenue I've enjoyed in my business was actually the result of finding cheaper solutions to some of my routine expenses.

[7] Significant e-discovery advances exist but are mostly irrelevant outside of «big business» disputes and mostly address the significant increase in e-documents in business over the last couple of decades.

Nevertheless, the last couple decades have seen a startling increase in reported fatalities at oil refineries and chemical plants - especially in Texas, where the refining industry is big business.

The largest UK fines for health and safety incidents have increased substantially in the past year, with some of the biggest brands in business having to pay millions of pounds for failing to control serious risks to employees and the public.

More recently, legal software companies have reported an increase in business from big law firms.

My old employer had a business model that easily paid for all the capacity they needed, which makes the big four's massive recent increase in price all the more startling.

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

In our June 2009 cover story, we looked at «Big BD» and the increasing importance of business development in law firms» growth strategies as well as the role social media playIn our June 2009 cover story, we looked at «Big BD» and the increasing importance of business development in law firms» growth strategies as well as the role social media playin law firms» growth strategies as well as the role social media plays.

The business development plan behind the Patent Map is twofold: to increase revenue by targeting new and existing clients (winning just one piece of new business can make a big difference to revenues), and to raise the firm's profile in its bid to become the go - to law firm for complex international patent litigation.