Sentences with phrase «business holding company»

Aflac, Inc. is a general business holding company and acts as a management company, overseeing the operations of its subsidiaries by providing management services and making capital available.

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If businesses don't meet the deadline set by companies including MasterCard, Visa and American Express, they can be held liable for transactions made with phony chip cards.

Replicating that success with Indochino will require Green to hold onto the company's pioneering spirit, Vucko says: «No one's really scaled an omnichannel business before.»

The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech small and medium businesses from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.

Despite uncertainty over health care, the minimum wage, overtime, and the situation in the Ukraine, optimism among these companies held strong at 69 percent, according to the March 2014 SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard.

Blank suggests a number of other start - up metrics are useful for tracking how well the company's proposed business model is holding up.

Lee - Chin now chairs AIC, along with Portland Holdings Inc., a private investment company that owns an array of other businesses in media, telecommunications, health care, tourism and finance.

For entrepreneurs interested in selling goods to bigger companies in the industry, the cluster has held approximately eight «supplier sessions,» where small businesses learn how they will need to tighten their standards to participate in the nuclear industry, Carlberg says.

NEXT time you are sitting on hold absorbing a business message from the company you just called, you might be surprised to find the engine for that service has been created by Perth group Captivate Gl

Unhindered by the same tethers that hold down big businesses, these companies are able to innovate in ways that their larger counterparts can not.

Glenn Fogel, Bookings Holdings CEO, and CNBC's Seema Mody talk about the company's better - than - expected fourth quarter sales as the online travel company receives a boost from a rise in reservations and strong performance from its international business.

Freed from the demands of public market investors who tend to focus on short - term returns, some companies may find renewed life that harks back to when they were small and privately held, business experts say.

Donovan, who started out in the movie business and won an Oscar in 2003 for producing Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine documentary, created a media company for the Netflix era, where once beloved shows are held in massive digital libraries, sold to streaming services, and viewed on demand, often on laptops, tablets and phones.

A survey of the 1997 Inc. 500 revealed that casual or «business casual» dress is standard at more than one - third of the nation's fastest - growing privately held companies.

But the company is only considering an IPO of minority stakes in some of its services businesses, rather than the main holding company.

Meanwhile, the out - of - production Challenger business jet that crashed in Iran was owned by the private holding company of Turkish businessman Huseyin Basaran.

The Jamaica - born business magnate and philanthropist saw his investment holding company Portland JSX Ltd. raise J$ 1.23 billion (C$ 10 million) in an initial public offering in June.

Verizon showed interest in Yahoo's core business as early as December, when Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said the company would «see if there is a strategic fit» for Yahoo's holdings, which include mail, news, sports and advertising technology.

The new service speaks to eHarmony's need to diversify as IAC / InterActiveCorp bulks up ahead of the planned public listing of Match Group, which will hold the company's dating businesses.

With his company's diversified holdings in insurance, transportation, paper, media, and financial services, Desmarais was one of the most notable members of his province's business elite, often referred to as Quebec Inc..

It was incredibly hard because we built the company around this really awesome consumer vision, but when the economy fell off a cliff, we basically needed to find an immediate business model and put the consumer stuff on hold for a bit, so that we could survive.

The fashion company is a subsidiary of Beckham Brand Holdings, which also represents David's business interests, and Victoria Beckham Limited's accounts state that the parent company will continue to stand behind it despite losses.

Many new business owners understand that incorporating or forming a Limited Liability Company (LLC) helps shield a business owner against being held personally responsible for their company's liabilities andCompany (LLC) helps shield a business owner against being held personally responsible for their company's liabilities andcompany's liabilities and debts.

Consumer and business lenders are among the other types of companies that have held talks with the Vision Fund.

Businesses that try and put all their IP into a separate holding company and only license the IP to the company seeking investments don't fool investors.

As a response, Endeavor finally took action in September by opening an office in Miami and assembling a board of local business leaders that includes execs from Virgin Hotels and Cisneros Group, one of the biggest privately held media companies in the world.

This week, Rogers Real Estate Development Ltd. — a private company owned by the Rogers family and held separately from Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business)-- announced its plan to develop a 15 acre patch of land at the city's western edge.

Companies should be held responsible for protecting their employees and the environment and otherwise conducting business in a manner that is not harmful.

Yahoo announced Monday that following the sale of its core business to Verizon Communications, the leftover assets would placed under a holding company termed «Altaba» — a name that sounded more like infantile babble than the remnants of a once - promising internet giant.

BGD Corporation is the latest Perth - based company to initiate a backdoor listing, announcing today that it intends to establish a primary healthcare business by purchasing assets held by Modern Medical.

Investing in your staff is an important building block for any business, and that means occasionally holding team - building exercises or company trips.

Perth - based Automotive Holdings Group has appointed former Qantas senior executive Stephen Cleary chief executive of the company's logistics business.

This creates a challenge for companies that are moving items across state lines where they may not hold a license and can limit their ability to serve certain customers or to expand their business beyond the local area.

Emeco Holdings has diversified its business outside the mining sector by purchasing truck and trailer rental company Rentco, which was founded in 1994 by Perth brothers Bob and John Shier, in a structured deal worth at least $ 52 million.

Under my holdings company, VaynerX, I own VaynerMedia and PureWow and additional businesses, including my sports agency, VaynerSports, all while managing and growing my personal brand.

Besides its investment, the company is also holding events aimed at providing access to information and resources to small businesses.

At one of my former companies our documented values — such as, «We act as company owners and hold ourselves accountable,» and, «We are easy to do business with» — were specific enough to facilitate decisions.

Since 2007, the Wayne, Pennsylvania - based nonprofit B Lab has been certifying for - profit companies that want to hold themselves accountable to sustainable business practices.

During each Small Talk event, the bank plans to hold discussions between well - known companies, which have yet to be named, and leading local business owners about how they overcame challenges.

According to a Business Week Online article, «between 1997 and 2004 the number of women - owned companies grew 28.1 percent — nearly three times the rate of all privately held businesses.»

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

These sectors, which include retailers, auto - parts companies, food businesses and essential household items, got a boost from income - seeking investors who wanted to hold stable, dividend - paying companies.

Dany Garcia is the founder of The Garcia Companies, a talent and media management holding company that oversees Seven Bucks Productions, a company she co-founded with management client and business partner Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson to manage brands, talent, and projects.

An entrepreneur may chalk up a trip to Hawaii for a meeting as a business cost or keep a spouse or child on the company payroll when a publicly held company would not.

April 6 - U.S. footwear and apparel company Nine West Holdings Inc filed for bankruptcy on Friday and said it would sell its Nine West and Bandolino footwear and handbag business to Authentic Brands Group.

Board members of color are charged with holding their companies accountable for the diversity of their leadership teams, for pushing to source from minority - owned businesses, and in supporting giving that addresses inclusion.

This is a teachable moment, he said, because in the age of AI, virtually every big company will find itself where Facebook is today — being held responsible for how it collects and uses the data that drives its business.

This year's list is the product of old - fashioned reporting, boosted by data and insight supplied by a trio of independent research firms: Sageworks, which performs financial analyses of privately held companies; Plunkett Research, a business intelligence firm that studies trends affecting the world's most vital industries; and IBISWorld, which provides industry growth figures, five - year revenue projections, employment growth, profit margin averages, and industry competition ratings.

All three businesses are being combined and will operate under a new holding company, Innovatus Imaging Corporation.

Comparable sales in Barnes & Noble's retail business, which exclude its struggling Nook digital business, rose 1.3 % in its third fiscal quarter, the company reported on Thursday, as physical books continued to hold their own against e-books at the company and industrywide.