Sentences with phrase «business empire which»

Deripaska's business empire which includes United Company Rusal PLC, the world's second largest aluminium producer by volume of production has a global footprint and counts major international companies as customers.

Not exact matches

The Mannix brothers share many things with their father (Fred Charles Mannix) and grandfather (Fred Stephen Mannix), whose empires they inherited: their names, obviously, but also their sharp business acumen, quiet - but - aggressive approaches to philanthropy (Calgary's brand new National Music Centre — which houses Canada's Music Hall of Fame — came to being thanks to more than $ 10 million in donations from the Mannix family business; the company also contributed $ 1 million to the National Gallery of Canada in 2015) and steadfast commitment to privacy.

Between its in - house parcel business and Purolator, which Canada Post owns, the corporation commands a $ 3 - billion - a-year shipping empire that appears to be growing in lockstep with the e-commerce revolution.

Shortly before taking office last year, Trump Sr. said he would hand off control of his business empire, which includes luxury homes and hotels across the world, to his sons Donald and Eric, and move his assets into a trust to help ensure that he would not consciously take actions as president that would benefit him personally.

The Brooklyn - born financier cobbled together a $ 698 billion empire of seemingly unrelated businesses into Citigroup, which in the late 1990s became the model for the modern - day financial supermarket.

At an age when most of his contemporaries are working on their golf swings (if they can still make it around 18 holes), Jim Pattison continues building his $ 8.4 - billion business empire, which includes media holdings, automotive sales and grocery stores.

Robbins's otherworldly persuasive powers and brash brand of popular insight have grown into Robbins Research International, a life - coaching empire that includes a massive book business (15 million volumes sold globally), an audio business (50 million programs sold), a life - coach certification business, and seminars for which attendees pay as much as $ 8,000 to be in the same room with the man himself.

This group ranges from Transat A.T. Inc. and The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. to Peter Munk's business empire (which apparently didn't stop making doomed investments after the Clairtone stereo misadventure).

She has since built nine businesses surrounding her Young Living empire, some of which she sold for millions of dollars.

His departure as chairman marks the end of an era in Canadian business during which his empire included the auto parts company, MI Developments Inc., which owns the real estate under many of Magna's plants, and Magna Entertainment Corp., a racetrack and gambling company that went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2009.

For comparison, this is Warren Buffett's desk, from which the 82 year old runs a $ 250 billion investing and corporate empire that spans the globe and every conceivable line of business imaginable.

A business / religious cult based on Joseph Smith's hallucinations which has bought respectability with a $ 30 billion business empire, the BYU «mission matured» football team and a great choir.

«The Round II grants announced today will drive hundreds of millions of dollars in state and private investment to deploy projects that will bring broadband to businesses, schools and communities, all of which need high - speed internet to compete in global economy,» Empire State Development President Howard Zemsky.

Today the muckraking International Business Times published Freedom of Information Law requests to the governor's office and the Empire State Development Corporation in which the Cuomo administration says it «is not in possession of any documents» relating to offers of subsidies to General Electric.

Below is the testimony that Reinvent Albany submitted to the Empire State Development Authority in which we ask ESD to «Ensure that scoping documents estimate the full cost to state and local taxpayers, and the value to the businesses building the project, of each development scenario and each part of each scenario.»

Empire State Development also conducts research with focus groups on perceptions of the state's business climate, which improved during the ad campaign, the agency said.

The Business Council remains wary of the proposals, which President and CEO Heather Briccetti said in a statement «only add to the perception that the Empire State is hostile to businessBusiness Council remains wary of the proposals, which President and CEO Heather Briccetti said in a statement «only add to the perception that the Empire State is hostile to businessbusiness.»

«We will continue to support the growth of this state's business sector, which in turn supports economic growth and the creation of quality, good - paying jobs across the Empire State.»

«We knew going in that Cuba did business in a very different way from the United States,» said Howard Zemsky, president and CEO of the Empire State Development Corp. and an attendee of the Cuba trip, which unceremoniously celebrated a one - year anniversary last week.

The NYT's Michael Barbaro follows his in - depth piece on Trump's empire (the facts of which he declined to debate with The Donald on CNBC) with a report that AG Eric Schneiderman is investigating whether a for - profit school founded by Trump has engaged in illegal business practices.

The heir to the Samsung business empire, which includes the world's biggest smartphone maker, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for bribery and other offences in connection with the scandal that brought down South Korean president Park Geun - Hye.

Flanagan appeared at a news conference held by a coalition of business groups and the fiscal watchdog the Empire Center, which released a report and website showing the regional and statewide savings from limiting local levy increases at 2 percent or the rate of inflation (Overall since the cap has been in place, the Empire Center says $ 7.6 million billion has been saved).

Krueger recalled that the ill - fated Empire Zones program, which was created by former Gov. George Pataki in 1999 (it actually morphed out of the New York State Economic Development Zones) ended up being an ill - conceived boondoggle that gave away millions of dollars worth of publicly - funded incentives and tax breaks to businesses that pledged to create jobs and then often didn't make good on those promises.

But Kaloyeros» prowess in wielding business and political support undoubtedly helped the rapid rise of the SUNY Poly empire, which expands the length of the Thruway from Albany to Buffalo and brings in hundreds of millions in state and private funding.

Pataki created a series of Empire Zones statewide, which served to spur economic growth in cities by providing tax incentives for businesses.

The sector employed 74,128 workers in 2012, which accounted for 6.2 percent of all employment on Long Island, according to a report prepared for Empire State Development, New York's primary business aid agency.

Unlike here in the US where Amazon seems to be everyone's favorite whipping boy — while many of those same naysayers have turned Amazon into the empire that it is today — for it's massive growth and the blame for the death of brick - and - mortar bookstores, German critics are taking issue with Amazon's labor practices, many of which fly in the face of the way working citizens are used to doing business.

But this may still be far away, and there's half - a-dozen possible transactions, so let me just say: From my personal perspective, I believe Bakhmatyuk is playing the long game here — he wants to build / fund a far larger & more main - stream agri - business empire, which is listed in London (/ NYC), and eventually earns a market or even a premium rating to reflect its growth & good governance.

Microsoft, which helped put a computer on every desk with Windows and today runs a sprawling business - software empire, got into gaming at first through experiments in entertainment CD - ROMs.

Markets crash without leaders to bravely venture forth and claim new territory, new business ground on which to start new empires.

He and his wife, Ellen, keep art in their villa in Zurich, but Ringier has also incorporated his collection into his role as chief of the Ringier publishing empire — his family has long owned a printing business in Switzerland — which puts out such publications as the magazine Monopol and runs the art - publishing subsidiary JRP Ringier (which regularly partners with museums and private art institutions on publications).

Logitravel, which operates in 33 markets and is one of Spain's largest travel groups with a turnover in excess of $ 700 million, saw the acquisition of Magic Rooms as the ideal opportunity to expand its existing business empire.

Time Warner is also enjoying a rebound in other parts of its business empire, including CNN which is profitable and has increased ratings after an abysmal 2010.