Sentences with phrase «business empire with»

Actress - turned - designer RACHEL BILSON is expanding her business empire with a line of porcelain dinnerware.The former The O.C. star has launched her...

Mr. Huizenga built a business empire with the Blockbuster and AutoNation chains and owned three South Florida teams, the Marlins, Dolphins and Panthers.

Six years later, he opened his own factory, the predecessor to what's known today as CK Hutchison Holdings, a vast business empire with interests in real estate, manufacturing, energy, telecommunications, and technology.

Pastors such as T.D. Jakes, Dollar and Joel Osteen have become the Prosperity Gospel's most well known preachers, building megachurches and business empires with a message equating piety with prosperity.

Not exact matches

Before Bentley's Corner Barkery (now rebranded as Bentley's Pet Stuff) became a crown jewel in Marcus Lemonis» small business empire, embattled owner Lisa Senafe, along with her husband, Giovanni, appealed to The Profit for help.

That starts with whipping into shape Shell's oil and gas business, an empire that is mind - bogglingly big, hard to wrangle, and risky.

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.

-- Tai Lopez, investor and advisor to many multimillion - dollar businesses, who has built an eight - figure online empire; connect with Tai on Facebook or Snapchat

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.

The Empire State is home to five African American - led small businesses, with a combined revenue of $ 172.2 million — almost triple that of Michigan's.

Starting with some well - timed local property investments that cemented his wealth, Li built a business empire that included retail, energy, ports, telecommunications, media and biotechnology companies worldwide.

Still, Empire has operated a joint venture with a Chinese partner to manufacture ride components since 2011 — and Nelson has come to know a thing or two about doing business in the Middle Kingdom.

With Donald Trump's global business empire already reaching such nations as Azerbaijan, Turkey, Indonesia, and the United Arab Emirates — and eager to enter new realms — the potential for conflicts of interests both domestically and internationally has long been obvious.

After abbreviated careers in medicine and law, CEO Brandt Louie's sons Stuart and Greg have returned to the family business, an empire launched by their grandfather in 1903 with the opening of Hok Yat Louie general store in Vancouver.

Their empire started in 1973, when Andrew opened the Panda Inn with $ 60,000 of savings, a small business loan, and free labor from family members.

This image of Perdue as a timid introvert is strikingly at odds with his legacy as a marketing tycoon who transformed a family - owned business into an empire.

The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.

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.

From starting his business from a small salon in London's Bond Street, Sassoon talks about how he revolutionised the hair industry in the 1960s, how he grew his global hair empire and turned his name into a multi-million dollar global brand with salons, a hugely successful product line and academies around the world.

Though Branson still struggles with ADHD, he has built an empire of businesses and changed the world for good.

Some would serve up Donald Trump and Robert Maxwell as examples of powerful men who gambled with their empires at certain points in their business careers in a pathological way.

In 12 years, she turned a business started with a $ 6,000 loan into a $ 15 million empire.

Palmer went on to build a sprawling business empire: at one time his name was attached to a golf course design outfit, auto dealerships, a golf equipment company, two golf clubs, an aviation company and a clothing contract with Sears.

Huffington was interviewed at Business Insider's Startup 2012 conference in New York City in May about what she has done with her empire.

Late Friday, the White House released details of the plan devised by his advisers to avoid conflicts of interest between Mr. Kushner's government role and the wide - ranging business empire he ran with his father.

How fashion designer Marc Ecko started earning $ 1000 a week in high school with his own clothing business, and later grew it into an empire.

While the growth of the entertainment business may have stood out recently, Wang's Wanda Group is a vast diversified empire with 634 billion yuan in assets and 290.2 billion yuan in revenue, with the biggest business being real estate.

If you are particularly ambitious, speak with your franchise representative, and find out if there are paths open to those who want to own more than one franchise business, and build a small empire.

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.

Is Bloomberg trying to gain favor with the Muslim world in an effort to expand his business empire?

Advertising doyen Harold Mitchell will sell up to 49 per cent of his cattle station empire in Western Australia to boost the growth of an already - growing business, with expectations the sale could fetch about $ 40 million.

With the business community keenly awaiting the industrial empire's decision on penalty rates, Premier backed the Productivity Commission's call for Sunday penalty rates in retail to be scrapped in favour of a lower, «weekend» penalty rate.

Sure, ownership is a bit dis - attached with the club and fans, but he has a sports empire he oversees, he leaves AFC business to Wenger and others.

But even with those reinforcements, Montella failed to put the club that was once the jewel in former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's business empire in contention for a Champions League place.

Gaskin presides over a large multi-faceted business empire comprised of trade, propaganda and lobbying organizations, all with one purpose in mind: allowing uneducated women like herself to provide substandard medical care to pregnant women while ignoring the growing pile of tiny bodies.

His nadir as a role model for fatherhood probably comes in the Empire Strikes Back, when he slices off his son's hand with a lightsaber just because Luke refuses to sign up for the family business (Evil Incorporated).

The Business Council's Annual Meeting concludes on Friday with a discussion of the upstate economy to be led by Kenneth Adams, president and CEO of Empire State Development and commissioner of the New York State Department of Economic Development.

This includes nearly 400 business owners and over 500 employees who received free ATAP training hosted by the SLA in collaboration with the Empire State Restaurant & Tavern Association as part of Governor Cuomo's continued efforts to combat underage drinking announced in August of 2017.

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.

Empire State Development says 43 businesses are expanding or coming to New York state to partner with colleges and universities.

The Expos, sponsored by Empire State Development's Division of Minority and Women's Business Development, Regional Offices and local State partners, provide MWBEs with opportunities to meet State procurement officers and prime contractors.

Prior to that, Cuomo also announced «the Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative,» a $ 25 million program to «bring together state and local government, non-profit and business groups to design and implement coordinated solutions to increase social mobility in ten cities with the highest poverty rates in the state.»

HCR partnered with Empire State Development to secure a $ 125,000 Better Buffalo Fund grant for this project, and we are pleased to see the amazing results as one of the oldest and most prized small businesses in the city is brought back to life for residents and visitors to enjoy.»

«NexGen is led by a management team and investors with a proven record and decades of combined experience building and operating high - tech businesses,» Empire State Development President, CEO and Commissioner Howard Zemsky said in a statement.

«Nothing will stand in her way when it comes to working with local businesses on expanding their operations and promoting job creation in the Empire State.»

Also, on Tuesday, May 13 I am hosting a Business Forum at ECC's North Campus in the Gleaser Hall Auditorium, 6205 Main St., at 6 p.m. Held in partnership with Buffalo Niagara Partnership President and CEO Dottie Gallagher - Cohen; Visit Buffalo Niagara President and CEO Patrick Kaler; Empire State Development WNY Regional Director Christina Orsi; and ECIDA President and CEO Steven Weathers, the event will include a presentation from each of these critical agencies on the future of economic development and growth in Erie County.

Legislator Edward Rath is hosting a Business Forum at ECC's North Campus in the Gleaser Hall Auditorium, 6205 Main St., on Tuesday, May 13 at 6 p.m. Held in partnership with Buffalo Niagara Partnership President and CEO Dottie Gallagher - Cohen; Visit Buffalo Niagara President and CEO Patrick Kaler; Empire State Development WNY Regional Director Christina Orsi; and ECIDA President and CEO Steven Weathers, the event will include a presentation from each of these critical agencies on the future of economic development and growth in Erie County.

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.

Clare W. Bronfman, an heiress of the Seagram Company business empire, allegedly implanted a «key logger» virus on the computer of her late father, Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., so officials with the NXIVM corporation could secretly monitor his emails, including his exchanges with world leaders and Clinton, according to court records.