Sentences with phrase «big national company»

«Local market knowledge, in retail, far outweighs the benefits of being a big national company.»

I would rather have my insurance with people I know and trust, than with some big national company.

Will Richards, the main financial officer of one of the biggest national companies said that his company is ready to increase its line of credit.

Big national companies are also more likely to have a full list of available options to choose from.

«We see things boiling down to a mix that includes a number of big national companies,» along with a few local boutiques, he says.

I have personally done these types of inspections for one of the big national companies in years past.

Not exact matches

Anticipating big things on National Pancake Day, the company set up a social war room, with a staff of 15, to handle the traffic.

Falcon Heavy is a large, reusable launch vehicle that will allow the closely held company to bid on heavier payloads than it can with its Falcon 9, such as big commercial satellites and national security missions.

But Meridian also has big ideas about expansion beyond Ontario to create a national digital banking brand, so the company has to be an innovative family, all pointed in the same direction with the same values.

Method director Stephen Langsford said the nature of the Internet meant a company did not need to be based in big population centres to be a national success.

This made U.S. firms the biggest single national group and was similar to levels in 2016, according to CDP, which tracks companies» environmental performance and was formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project.

Sanofi CEO Olivier Brandicourt said that his company would rely on the U.S. national health expenditures (NHE) growth projection to cap price increases other than for a «sound reason» (in which case the firm would disclose the reasoning behind the bigger hike).

The big tech companies claim they haven't heard of the National Security Agency's program called PRISM.

That's one reason why NASA, various universities, drone startups like AirMap and Skyward, as well as big companies like Google (goog) and Amazon (amzn) are trying to build a national drone traffic management system.

Big Idea: Having gone from helping a couple of students incorporate their company to Sillicon Valley's most powerful lawyer, Drummond has a front - row seat to history, overseeing the search giant's corporate deals as well as the public - policy issues embroiling the search giant around privacy and national security.

Today's «Big Five» possess less than 5 % of global reserves — national oil companies control most of the rest.

The indices are backed by a national database of more than 200 million property records dating back to 1987 and use what the company calls «Big Data techniques» and new algorithms to track an individual home's value on a monthly basis and create forecasts to predict the home's future value.

Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics.

Rather than battle the big companies for a share of the national market, they decided McCain would begin as a regional player, and so focused on the densely populated Northeast.

The fundamental question here: Is Tribune Publishing really a national company, with big newspaper - based operations, or as many have suggested, is it too small to succeed in these times of digital business behemoths?

Chinese companies, the biggest national group among emerging markets borrowers, kept up the pace until recently.

But they have become increasingly popular over the last decade with the growth of national funds affiliated with big financial services companies like Fidelity, Vanguard and Charles Schwab.

That message was a reference to revelations last year by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that Skype, which is owned by Microsoft, was part of the NSA's program to monitor communications through some of the biggest U.S. Internet companies.

Investments in the later financing rounds for companies jumped to $ 4.2 billion in the first quarter, up 50 percent from a year ago, according to data from the National Venture Capital Association, making it the biggest quarter for such investments since late 2000.

Think Big Partners helps companies grow faster, smarter and more efficiently through our network of in - house services, community members and national partners.

As originally envisioned, the National Endowment for the Arts was supposed to pay for professional, big - city companies to put on an occasional production of Our Town in Fargo, or La Boheme in Tallahassee, or Beethoven's Fifth in Oklahoma City.

President Jim Pellerito explains that the company is on the verge of making some of its biggest changes yet — changes that he anticipates will turn it into a national player after decades as a regional powerhouse.

Large met with national distributors, and right away the company's ultra-premium tequila was competitive against many of the biggest names in the industry.

The biggest and most significant change the company is undertaking overhauls its processes and prepares it to gain national presence, but there have been some smaller but no less important adjustments made by Pellerito Foods in the last few years, and all of them are adding up to one growing and thriving company.

The biggest and most significant change the company is undertaking overhauls its processes and prepares it to gain national presence.

Sands said the company sees potential for Pacifico to become the «next big national brand in the beer business.»

The biggest and most significant change the company is undertaking overhauls its processes and prepares it to gain national presence, but there have been some smaller but no less important adjustments made by Pellerito Foods in the last few years, and all of them are adding up to one growing and thriving company.

The move is sure to raise opposition in Italian political circles where Parmalat is viewed as a national asset and is the country's biggest listed food company.

Australia's two biggest telecommunications companies, Optus and Telstra, deserve better treatment from Communications Minister Stephen Conroy as he shepherds through the National Broadband Network Companies Bcompanies, Optus and Telstra, deserve better treatment from Communications Minister Stephen Conroy as he shepherds through the National Broadband Network Companies BCompanies Bill 2010.

Rather than battle the big companies for a share of the national market, they decided McCain would begin as a regional player, and so focused on the densely populated Northeast.

Grimm is an amateur poker player — which means he plays poker for money but not for a living — and an amateur would have as much chance in the big poker game at the Horseshoe as Cadillac Jack would have of bringing in a wildcat oil well through the floor of the First National Bank building in Abilene, Texas, where the Grimm Oil Company is located.

The end was near when the 2017 Quicken Loans National failed to attract as many big names, the sponsor declined to extend its expired contract, and no other company came forward to ink a new deal.

Getting the banks lending again to companies through a big, bold and simple National Loan Guarantee scheme is the urgent priority.

The authors acknowledge funding from the U.S. Department of Energy; the National Energy Technology Laboratory; the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership; Shell Exploration & Production Company; Portland General Electric; and Schlumberger Inc..

Layoffs are always a possibility in industrial science, but the flip side is that companies offer substantially higher salaries than those available at universities or the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-- and, in some instances, stock options that can pay off big if a venture hits the jackpot.

Nina and I are friends as well, even though I say her name wrong, who has also written some books about fat, but there's this national conversation where you have the old school low - fats, mostly paid for by big grain sort of research out there, and you're refuting some of that using very strong academics, randomized controlled trials, and the things that everyone wants, but no one has paid for except for maybe big drug companies and things like that.

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Mark Brooks: The three big national speed dating companies are # 1 Predating (now owned by Cupid.com), # 2 Hurrydate (speedating in combination with online dating), # 3 8 Minute Dating (Tom Jaffee's service is ripe for acquisition)

We have no concrete national data, but for example, globally, only 4 % of companies begin to have a good management of Big Data within HR departments, according to a study published by the Deloitte University Press.

Big national online education companies are trying to capitalize on the interest in credit recovery.

Out of all these scenarios, I believe # 7 is the one that will end up happening as the DOJ clearly wants 4 national carriers to remain in competition, and big foreign carriers definitely have the $ $ and know how to operate the wireless industry unlike cable companies and also Google, some people are mentioning Google as a potential buyer but, Google makes smartphones and purchasing T - Mobile will hurt Google's smartphone business with the other carriers.

Financing professionals at the company work with some of the biggest names in the industry, including the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (FHLMC), and Sovereign Wealth Fund placements for debt and equity.

Sure, there are dozens of big banks and national mortgage companies who offer home loans.

In recent years, the big car rental agency companies have been buying up the smaller ones: Avis owns Budget, Payless and Zipcar; Hertz owns Dollar and Thrifty; and Enterprise owns Alamo and National.

Ask The National Flea Market Association to follow the lead of other huge flea market companies — including Barnyard Flea Markets, Traders Village Flea Markets, The Nashville Flea Market, Gibraltar Trade Center and The Big One — by banning the sale of puppies at all flea markets.