Sentences with phrase «biggest threats to their businesses»

Almost half of Canadian small business owners report sluggish demand as one of the biggest threats to their businesses.

But chief executive Darren De Bortoli said the biggest threat to his business - as well as other winemakers - was not the rising dollar, which was making exports uncompetitive, nor the power of the two leading supermarket chains, but the «rorting» of the WET tax rebate by small uneconomic growers who are flooding the market with cheap loss - making wine.

Graham fears Subaru's lateness in launching a hybrid engine could be the biggest threat to the business, in the UK at least.

However, the biggest threats to the business model of the coal - fired generators are lowering demand — caused by changing consumption patterns — and from increased capacity from renewables such as large scale wind and solar, as McIndoe and ACIL Tasman acknowledge.

IoT is a major threat and possibly the biggest threat to businesses in the coming years.

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It's not just cyber criminals that small businesses need to watch out for; employees can pose a big security threat.

This amounts to a threat to Google in two ways: In one sense, it threatens the search giant's advertising base, because web advertising and increasingly mobile advertising are the core of the company's business, and if Facebook vacuums up a big chunk of that then Google suffers.

Though the whims of Beijing continue to pose a threat, the popular narrative of Big Government may have overshadowed a more fundamental challenge to Apple's business.

The threat of state - sponsored attacks aimed at taking down critical infrastructure continues to plague experts, but many believe the bigger threat is posed toward U.S. business interests.

But the biggest threat they face, Rosenblatt says, is dealing with the tech behemoths that pose a threat to their budding businesses.

Small business owners fingered social networks as biggest threat to information technology security in 2010, according to a new report.

At the end of the day, though, the biggest threat to Canada might likely come not from financial markets, but from what a debt ceiling breach would do to U.S. consumer and business confidence and thus the pace of growth south of the border.

Hart said that the problem of insider threats is as «old as the hills» and that every organization, from big businesses to the National Security Agency, has to deal with the possibility.

Sony Pictures» recent success in releasing its comedy «The Interview» through video - on - demand services after threats from hackers was also seen as a blow to big - screen businesses.

Amazon may be a giant in the cloud world but Microsoft is a bigger threat to the types of big business customers that Oracle depends on.

While our own government in Ottawa silently condones the plans for further integration with the U.S., and while our provincial governments continue to be completely sound asleep on this vitally important topic, irony of ironies, at this writing 15 U.S. states have expressed concern that the big business sponsored Security and Prosperity Partnership is a process that, wait for it, is a threat to states» rights and to the sovereignty of the United States.

Now, not only do small businesses need to protect against physical threats, but online threats are an even bigger concern.

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During the 1960s, however, professed progressives concluded that the principal threat to individual freedom was not the state, big business, or economic privation, but traditional customs and social mores that claimed authority over people's lives and actions.

We lack ambition at Arsenal we are the big club that is desperate for the title more than others but we are not showing hunger in our business, We have a scouting that is very poor as we have wasted a lot of Money on the wrong Sanchez is the only great player we have bought for decades, Ozil buy was mistake we had carzorla the we wanted a striker, we wssted money on xhaka, Elneny, chambers, welbeck, mustafi and finally in lacazette he lacks height and physicality to thrive in epl you saw yesterday he was suffocated by Chelsea defenders he did not look a threat at all, but hey let's blame Kreonke for paying the highest wage bill in Europe for Deadwoods... pooor management poor Arsenal what do you expect

But opponents, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, argued that Walmart is a very different beast from its other big - brand competitors and poses a unique threat to small businesses.

But Lonn Reas, a regional business manager for the company, laughed off the notion that his company's sudden willingness to make big changes was spurred by the threat of competition for the small district's business.

If what you say is true, the Big 6 may be heaving a sigh of relief because it means competitively priced, quality indie writers will be no future threat to their tried - and - true business models.

It was an era of great anxiety for the corner bookshop: Amazon was not yet the goliath it is today but was a nascent threat, and booksellers feared the big - box bookseller opening up down the road was likely to put them out of business.

# 7 Big 5 struggle: While one of their biggest business partners struggle to stay relevant in the business, their own challenge to keep the cost down will be a threat to their survival especially when authors can do the entire process of publishing on their own.

How big of a threat does this pose to investors and companies that do business in China?

The profitability of Nintendo's hardware business isn't the biggest threat to the company's future.

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EEI identified distributed generation such as residential solar power as the biggest near - term threat to the utility industry «s business model in a January report entitled «Disruptive Challenges.»

The bailouts, their obvious love of big businesses, big banks, big insurers, big health - care organizations over the small, the facilitation of such businesses moving overseas and then practicing unfair trade with us, the failure to go after white - collar criminals, their utter unconcern for the consumer who, after all, is supposed to be the party that the economy is supposed to serve... it's the Republicans * themselves * that are now clearly the major threat to the idea of the free market.

As PwC prepares to formally launch a US legal services business, a new study has warned that law firms need to become more efficient and develop alternative services in areas such as technology and process management in order to counter the growing threat posed by the Big Four accounting firms.

The world's biggest businesses trust us to defend them against serious commercial and reputational threats.

At a joint meeting held yesterday (Wednesday, 17 May) at London's Guildhall, New York County District Attorney Cy Vance, Commissioner Ian Dyson and CEO of the GCA, Phil Reitinger spoke to businesses to update them on their work identifying the biggest cyber threats and the measures being developed to tackle them.

In is 10 - K yearly report, the world's biggest ATM operator listed digital currencies as one of the threats to their business.

As much as 85 percent of Care Capital's business is exposed to skilled nursing facilities, Sandler wrote, highlighting declining cuts in rental income of at least 20 percent over the next three to five years as one of the biggest threats.

What is sad is that while I have a no love for terrorism in any form the overreaction government mandated spending to address the terrorist threat is out of proportion to its real impact on our citizens and has been turned in to big business for those posed to profit.

From mom - and - pop shops to big corporations, CNBC reports that cyber insurance is helping businesses insurance against cyberattacks and other online threats.