Sentences with phrase «business spends millions»

California businesses spend millions of dollars each year importing hemp from Canada, China and Europe.

Insurance companies and large and small businesses spend millions on lobbyists who push for tort reform at the state and federal level.

Businesses spend millions unsuccessfully trying to get something like that accomplished.

Not exact matches

«It's probably not worth it for a small business to spend millions,» says Tom Peters, a partner in Deloitte Canada's analytics practice.

The high - powered jetpack was 40 years in the making, the culmination of millions of dollars spent and decades of trial and error by Mayman and his business partner, Nelson Tyler.

I mean, we're spending millions in a business that doesn't have fat margins.»

For bigger businesses, this means if one thousand of your employees spend just one hour per day «cyberloafing,» it could cost you $ 35 million each year.

The alternative likely on the minds of many investors is selling off parts of the business rather than spending millions during uncertain times for uncertain returns.

On the subject of supporting employees, Marc Benioff, who co-founded and heads business software giant Salesforce (CRM), shared that his company has spent roughly $ 3 million this year to adjust the salaries of its female employees to match that of their male counterparts.

«There are tax cases in which someone will argue they had to spend $ 1 million on legal fees because a nasty divorce threatened the business,» said Wood of Wood LLP.

Oracle spent $ 1.5 million on security for Larry Ellison, who recently stepped down as CEO of Oracle but will serve as executive chairman and chief technology officer of the business software company.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

The investment amount of $ 2.5 million in this example should be based on what the plan shows as necessary to get the business going — money that will be well spent on the business.

Today, its a million - dollar business (and he's spent only $ 500 on marketing).

We spend $ 4 Million annually to offer you marketing, lead generation and exclusive promotions to support your business growth.

That data aligns with the reporting of Business Insider's Mike Shields, who found that a good chunk of Facebook's 6 million advertisers are not even thinking of cutting back spending on Facebook post Cambridge Analytica scandal.

While it's true that spending was higher than expected, the administration had been prepared for a significant overruns — every contract the business school had was approved by the university administration — but not $ 13 million.

According to data compiled by business management software firm Sage, if just 10 percent of annual spending in San Francisco was redirected from chains to local businesses, it would generate $ 192 million in local economic activity and create almost 1,300 new jobs.

However, Business Insider points out that this is only a total of $ 500 million more than the companies are spending on R&D right now.

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

Having the expense limit permanently set to $ 1 million would stimulate business spending.

Imagine, instead, if when you launched your business, there were billionaires who weren't really connected to you, but who were willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to support you and tear down your competition.

Conroy, a West Haven, Conn., cash - flow expert who spent most of his career as the treasurer or controller of businesses with up to $ 10 million in sales, offers a solution that is as effective as it is unusual: «Appoint a cash - flow specialist with the authority to cross department lines as he or she follows the trail of cash coming into — or failing to come into — the company.»

Such an effort may seem counterintuitive to existing online advertising paradigms, given that businesses are expected to spend $ 141 million on online ads this year, per eMarketer — of which Google takes home an estimated 32.4 percent.

Previously, the GBTA forecasted that business travel spending would grow 3.2 percent in 2016 to nearly $ 300 billion and that there would be an estimated 514 million trips this year, an increase of 3.1 percent.

Do you really believe articles like this one that report that there were «88 million Small Business Saturday shoppers in 2014» and that they «spent $ 14.3 billion.»

Small businesses are expected to double spending on online reputation monitoring services over the next year to more than $ 700 million.

According to Wordstream, email marketing is one of the most powerful digital tools for businesses, with email users predicted to grow by 254.7 million by 2020 and a $ 44 return for every $ 1 spent on email marketing.

He sees Transcontinental growing Coveris» business, which had been hurt by the challenges of spending US$ 140 million of capital spending on new equipment over three years.

IRON Ore miner Portman Limited will spend $ 2 million to establish a new managed investment scheme forestry business during the next 12 months alongside its existing iron ore and silicon metal divisions.

In their survey of 150 CIOs at mid-market and large companies across Europe and the U.S. with annual revenue between $ 500 million and $ 20 billion, executives said that projects like cloud computing and data analysis will see the most spending, while data warehouses, ERP implementations, and business intelligence tools will also make up a healthy portion of spending.

Athenex, which raised $ 68 million from a secondary stock offering during the quarter, finished the year with $ 51 million in cash and short - term investments, down from $ 69 million in September as the company spent heavily on clinical trials for the drugs it is developing and absorbed higher licensing fees at its specialty drug business, which has added 12 new drugs to its stable of products.

The continent's consumer and business spending is estimated to be worth $ 4 trillion between now and 2025, and more than 50 million new middle and upper class households will emerge in the next decade,» said Tim Sutton, chairman, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Weber Shandwick.

Delivering broadband is a capital - intensive business, with Verizon spending $ 23 billion to spread its fiber to the home service to 17 million homes.

Employment and Social Development Canada (formerly Human Resources and Skills Development Canada) has increased its spending on external «Business Services» by61 percent since 2006/07, equivalent to 7 percent compound annual growth — a total increase of $ 140 million per year.

Public Works and Government Services Canada has increased its spending on external «Business Services» by 150 percent since 2006/07, equivalent to 14 percent compound annual growth — a total increase of $ 188 million per year.

They aren't spending millions of dollars on AdWords campaigns and they don't have call centers or send out mass spam mail to sucker business owners in.

Memphis Invest, a single - family rental real estate investment services firm, sold 164 homes during the third quarter and spent $ 3.1 million with 58 local small businesses completing redevelopment of those properties.

Today in PYMNTS data, businesses spend trillions on travel without knowing where the money goes, Nigeria's digital identity program will cost millions...

Spendesk, a fintech solution that helps businesses manage their spending, has raised an $ 8 million Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors.

With Trump in the White House and more business - friendly Republican - controlled Congress, banks seized the opportunity spending a record $ 66.7 million on lobbying last year, according to the political contributions database OpenSecrets.

In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

In 2015, we spent more than $ 63 million on procuring goods and services from Indigenous businesses, contractors and suppliers in Canada.

Mr Boon told shareholders in a letter that the transaction was expected to deliver at least $ 130 million a year to pre-tax earnings from synergies and business improvements and that integration costs to achieve the synergies would be about $ 141 million pre-tax, though $ 67 million had already been spent in the 2017 financial year.

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If they didn't writers would not spend days seeking just the right word to describe a character, advertising companies would not earn millions to create a thirty second commercial, and businesses / churches would not agonize over the development of vision statements and creeds.

The organization aimed to bring evangelicals back into the political fold, after millions of them had spent decades sitting out elections, convinced that politics were a dirty, ungodly business.

For decades, restaurants and franchises around the world have spent millions and built their entire business around replicating the NYC food taste and quality, to no avail.

A merger meant Evans would not have to commit significant time and energy and spend several million dollars to expand his 20 - year - old business.

The report found that craft brewers in 2015 - 16 had invested $ 105 million in capital spending on plant, machinery, vehicles and other equipment to run their businesses.