Sentences with phrase «big launches by»

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But what emerged is a story of a company trapped by an overly ambitious launch schedule, an inexperienced leadership team expected to deal with the biggest crisis in the firm's history, and a sophisticated retail giant felled by the most mundane, basic and embarrassing of errors.

In terms of in - store innovations, the company made a big splash last year by launching and then heavily hyping two stores — a massive 140,000 - square - foot Canadian Tire in south Edmonton and a Sport Chek in midtown Toronto — that came fully loaded with all manner of screens, simulators and other forms of digital eye candy, including interactive video walls, window shopping using glass screens that display products, and community boards that give customers access to local sports clinics, league registrations and fitness classes.

As the holiday acquired nation - wide popularity, Alibaba became the first major company in 2009 to monetize the holiday by launching a special online sale and effectively transforming the day into the world's biggest 24 - hour online shopping event, one that reflects the growing wealth of China's middle - class.

Even during those times when my website crashed during a big online launch or when planning for a client retreat went dreadfully wrong, I would remember I was simply committed, day by day making my «honey», and that metaphorical flowers were indeed blooming, whether I could see them or not.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces launched air strikes on Syria in response to a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people, aiming to degrade its chemical weapons capabilities in the biggest intervention yet in the conflict by Western powers.

To address this «big problem,» the company, which is owned by Ebay, has enlisted the Space Tourism Society and the SETI Institute to help it launch PayPal Galactic (yes, that's the real name), an initiative to devise solutions.

Perhaps by skipping the Prairies in initial launches, car manufacturers also realize there is some truth to the stereotype of Albertans as big truck - and SUV - driving types who are not as interested in fuel - efficient vehicles.

BRUSSELS — The European Union on Wednesday launched the long and politically fraught process of drawing up its new long - term spending plans, seeking a bigger budget to finance new priorities like defense and border control and plug the gap left by Britain's departure.

That was a big part of the rationale behind The Players» Tribune, a Derek Jeter - backed site that hosts content written by the athletes themselves, which launched last year.

NEW YORK, April 18 - A start - up launched by three Princeton University graduates for a new cryptocurrency has raised $ 133 million from a slew of big investors in a private placement, Intangible Labs Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Nader Al - Naji said on Wednesday.

ZURICH, April 25 - Credit Suisse delivered its best quarterly results on Wednesday since Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam launched his restructuring plan for Switzerland's second - biggest bank in 2016, driven by its wealth management business.

The tool's biggest drawback at launch is its reach; HelloVote is severely limited by state election laws surrounding electronic voter registration.

«Sail & Anchor, which is owned by CUB, are backed by marketing prowess and big media launches.

Heins said the BlackBerry's launch into the United States, the company's biggest customer base by far, is coming later because of the extensive testing required by the U.S. carriers and the regulatory process.

Back in April 2011 — square in the middle of launches for big titles like Mortal Kombat — its PlayStation Network was hit by a major hacking attack.

On the defense side, there are missions in space that can be achieved by launching several smaller, cheaper satellites instead of one big satellite.

Uber will expanding Uber Movement, a website the company launched last year that offers anonymized and aggregated Uber data to show travel conditions across different times, days or months, and how travel times are impacted by things like big events and road closures in a city.

Saputo Inc. emerged as the winner of the Australian deal with a $ 450 - million all - cash bid — one of the biggest deals in the history of the company, which was launched in the 1950s as a family venture that made deliveries of homemade fresh mozzarella by bicycle.

So is it any surprise big brewers are making a practice of either buying microbreweries outright (as Sleeman did with Quebec's Unibroue in 2004, only to be swallowed by Sapporo in 2006) or, more recently, by launching their own «craft breweries» (as Moosehead did when it launched Brampton, Ont.

When people who want to «become an entrepreneur» start, they come up with their solutions by themselves, often keeping them secret so they can prepare bigger launches.

A big product launch can start with a huge spike in users, traffic or even revenue but this high can inevitably be followed by what investor Paul Graham calls the «trough of sorrow.»

With the big ETF players covering the easiest and most inexpensive indexes, more ETFs have been launched by niche managers focused on new slices of markets and sectors, as well as alternative investing and actively managed strategies.

The U.S. company announced the launch of a new Dell - backed cloud services company called Guizhou YottaCloud Technologies on Thursday at a big data summit in Guizhou attended by CEO Michael Dell.

In the last 12 months, Bankoff has spent a lot of his cash buying and building new businesses — he picked up the Curbed Network of food, fashion and retail blogs, and made a big splash by launching Vox, run by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein.

Last year, Blue Origin entered the running for a potential wave of funding to be given by the U.S. Air Force, rivaling other space companies both big and small, including the aforementioned SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Orbital ATK.

ShotTracker launched its first product last year, and the technology is now used by some of the biggest names in basketball, including NBA shooting guard Klay Thompson and elite trainer Charlie Torres.

The affordability of Greek property is also fuelling interest from Chinese residential buyers, who are already the biggest source of foreign property investors in Greece, bolstered predominantly by the Greek Golden Visa programme that launched in 2013.16

The CopyOp firm is run by Ouroboros, the same company that operates the world's biggest binary options trading web portal, AnyOption which was launched in 2008.

Zelle, the payment company backed by a consortium of big banks in the U.S., is gearing up to launch a P2P mobile...

And don't forget - You can still enter to win a BOX OF BOOKS from Zondervan by leaving a comment after Thursday's post marking the big launch.

The number of products launched in the UK in the past year has diminished by 8.4 %, with food being the biggest contributor to the resulting loss in sales revenue.

The company, launched 10 years ago by Bullock County native Peggy Sutton, is the world's biggest producer of organic sprouted grains and flours with more than 50 products.

Launched in the capital in March 2016, Bellfield has enjoyed several big contract wins as the free - from food and drink sector continues to expand with Mintel predicting the market to grow to # 673 million by 2020 (Mintel 2016) and the «Global Gluten - Free Beer Market — Growth, Trends and Forecasts (2017 — 2022)» report suggesting that the global gluten - free beer market will grow at a CAGR of more than 13.5 % over the period 2017 to 2022.

The producer has been fully owned by German group Henkell since May 2016, and the UK distributor has been a springboard for a selection of new products launching into the UK market, including one of Germany's biggest pilsner brands, Radeburger and Prosecco brand Mionetto.

Amazon threatens to ruin Christmas for Australian retailers by launching its long - awaited retail offer on Tuesday with one - day deliveries in most capital cities and 30 per cent discounts on big - brand toys and clothing.

Amazon threatens to ruin Christmas for Australian retailers by launching its long - awaited retail offer on Tuesday with one - day deliveries and big discounts on toys and clothing.

China Bright Food Group, the country's second - biggest foodstuff producer by revenue, has launched a premium yogurt product in Hong Kong, the first step in an overseas push to put its products on the supermarket shelves of Macau, Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia.

The competition regulator has put the Australian cattle market on notice by reinforcing recommendations for modernising reform with news that it has launched cartel investigations in the wake of a self - initiated market study into the nation's single biggest contributor to agricultural incomes.

Launched in March 2016, Scotland's Bellfield Brewery has enjoyed a number of big contract wins as the free - from food and drink sector continues to expand with Mintel predicting the market to grow to # 673m by 2020 (Mintel 2016).

Natural Products Scandinavia — organised by Diversified Communications UK — has scooped its first big industry accolade after winning Best International Launch at the annual Exhibition News Awards ceremony at the Lancaster London on 10 April 2013.

Nestle, the world's biggest food and beverage company, has launched a brand of infant formula that uses the A2 beta - casein protein made popular by the New Zealand and Australia - listed a2 Milk Company.

Pure Life starting this week is launching a big new global campaign aimed at making its bottles less of a commodity by giving consumers more reasons to buy the brand than just the water inside.

Not much later the biggest mountain - rescue operation in U.S. history was launched — a woman in one of the other parties was reported in distress from exhaustion at the same time, complicating the situation — and after four days of suffering in a tent Day was lifted off the mountain by a helicopter flying some 1,300 feet above its rated ceiling.

The biggest of which, you've probably already seen by now — Dixon launching his car off the back of Jay Howard's Schmidt Peterson Motorsports machine.

The best striker in the Premier League by some way, Liverpool's Luis Suarez, scored only four times against the big six, one of which was against the worst Manchester United team in decades and that didn't stop the Reds launching a challenge right until the last day.

On Friday, LaVar Ball — star of the Big Baller Brand AAU team, technically speaking — launched himself back in the news by verbally abusing a female referee and tarnishing the sport.

Danone has stepped up its own brand promotion in the UK and Ireland following Nestlé's entry into the market, for example by promoting its Cow & Gate formula logo through its association with Barnardos Ireland's Big Toddle, launched last month (April 2013).

Last week I attended her fabulous Bump It Up Book Launch Event at NYC's W Hotel, co-hosted by Big City Moms, and sponsored by Pampers, Tide to Go, La Croix Water, Britax, Wacoal, and...

But a more concerted attempt to produce some intellectual ballast for this political repositioning was launched yesterday by Demos, an event blessed by the presence of leader David Cameron and party big brain Oliver Letwin alongside several luminaries of the left.

Paul Singer's American Unity Super PAC, which was launched in June 2012 by billionaire Paul Singer, raised $ 2.75 million over the past three months, most donated by Singer himself: The three - month haul for American Unity PAC is by far the biggest... Read