Sentences with phrase «business years ago»

The settee and chairs were ordered from a local store that went out of business years ago, I'm afraid.

My mom had a passion for interior decorating and the home when she started her decorating business years ago, but she never dreamed that blogging would be the career that allowed her to pursue that passion.

When I owned my landscape business years ago before I sold it, on of my clients was a 14 unit apartment complex.

Barry Seltzer, a real estate lawyer and former Ontario Real Estate Association instructor, expanded his business some years ago to include estate planning.

Even if you launched your business years ago, it's important to revisit and refresh your plan.

Fisker is back with a car they are extremely adamant is not an updated version of the car that put them out of business years ago.

Mosh, I did some business years ago in Michigan.

The Xbox division would have been out of business years ago if they tried to run it as it is now, for free.

We were joined by Ron Concoran who, having sold his business years ago, now calls Kimberley home year - round and lives in a mountainside chalet - style home just a 30 - second ski run away from the main chair lift — not a bad way to enjoy your winters.

I used to own a dog grooming business years ago and was never bit by a pit bull.

Barry Seltzer, a real estate lawyer and former Ontario Real Estate Association instructor, expanded his business some years ago to include estate planning.

Really, obscure e-book site that probably should have gone out of business years ago?

When I started my editorial consulting business years ago, I knew there was no shortage of people who wanted to write a book and become an author.

When I had a wedding business years ago, we used to make them often.

It was his technology that had launched the business years ago.

People often ask me if I wish I had started my own business years ago, to which I always reply, no, it was all down to God's timing and He knows best!

AT&T moved heavily and aggressively into the wireless communications business years ago, seeing the writing on the wall regarding the shift away from landlines.

but since she closed the business a year ago I have been SAHM and have gain all the weight back, I have been contemplating going back on WW because that is the only program that I have used that really works for me.

Not exact matches

Bierman founded the business five years ago with his partner, who works in IT.

How many of these businesses would've succeeded as brick - and - mortar shops just 20 years ago?

The potential deal sent both stocks soaring as it would tie up two giants from Quebec and give Metro an expanded foothold in the drug business, mirroring Loblaw Cos.» purchase of Shoppers Drug Mart four years ago.

Beyond this sense of optimism, seven out of 10 business owners said they fared the same or better than they did a year ago in the fourth quarter.

DURING the sustained economic boom that came to a screeching halt one year ago, business leaders were unanimous in advocating a long - term approach to dealing with the big strategic issues.

Since Kelman became the CEO of the firm 11 years ago, he has disrupted the traditional real estate business model.

Pebble, the smartwatch maker that two years ago launched its business with a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, is making all kinds of waves in the world of connected devices, where brands such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Amazon.com dominate.

When Armoyan started the business 35 years ago, he was a fresh engineering graduate, but that wasn't where his passion lay.

Included in our original business plan years ago was that everything had to be completed by the end of each day.

And I think as I said two years ago, I strongly believe that businesses and business leaders in America need to recognize that the rules of engagement have changed.

The company has been a big proponent of the benefits of technology advances since it launched its business 30 years ago from a garage in Tempe, Arizona.

FOURTEEN years ago, Karratha locals Sean and Lisa Clarke had ambitions to establish a vehicle hire business with a fleet of about 50 vehicles.

While hiring was down by 0.1 percent in March, the survey found that nearly 9 in 10, or 87 percent of small businesses, expect the first quarter to be the same or better than a year ago.

Two years ago, Star Toilet Paper rolled out a unique business model when it began putting ads on toilet paper that businesses can get for free for their bathroom stalls.

Thurston: I was at Intel about seven years ago and part of a new business that Intel killed for no apparent reason.

When Guy Laurence, the former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. (which owns Canadian Business), took the reins of the telecom three years ago, he spent several months touring the country, talking to everyone from cable installers to call centre staffers to mid-level managers about their concerns.

Thanks to strong segment growth, Apple's services business accounted for 12 % of trailing -12-month revenue, up from 9 % two years ago.

Ten years ago, founders Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck started building a business based on improving an online game they loved.

The idea for 7 Cups of Tea came to him two years ago, after he downloaded with her about a stressful business trip.

Only time will tell if Under Armour can return its shoe business to the growth of a year ago, but it doesn't bode well that such a young category for the company is already struggling.

«What I've learned in my business is that the skills I'm learning today, I didn't have five years ago and I didn't even know I needed two years ago,» he says.

More than five years ago, Bentham says, he and his team began to flag to Shell executives changes afoot in the economy that, they believed, might dramatically affect the oil business.

«In fact, wearables were the second largest contributor to revenue growth after iPhone, which is impressive for a business that started only three years ago.»

Jonathan and Sally Walpole of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, started their chocolate business ten years ago, but it unofficially started way before that.

As an example, I worked with a small business company years ago that was developing a new solution to help with baby colic; the company spent years trying to work through all the requirements necessary to be classified as a medical device product, which they had not adequately anticipated.

I was at a conference for technology CEOs a couple of years ago, and a former head of Canada's civil service said the government has done all of the policies right, and now it's time for the business community to step up.

The second - hand car business was revolutionised 20 years ago with the arrival of the internet, but there is a second revolution under way that promises to be even more disruptive and could have a significant effect on some of Western Australia's best - known car yards.

Sort of like people in the newspaper business, they'd like to go back to a day 20 or 25 years ago when the internet didn't pose any threat.

When writer Peter C. Newman charted the geography of Canada's business establishment 40 years ago, he uncovered a cloistered world of elite clubs, elegant mansions and ranches — hushed spaces to which the grocery, mining and industrial magnates retreated to savour the spoils of aristocratic wealth.

Brandt Louie is pulling back from the day - to - day business of the firm his grandfather founded 112 years ago, entrusting operations to his two sons, Stuart and Greg.

Twenty years ago, husband - and - wife duo Craig and Kathryn Hall launched themselves into the wine business with the purchase of a winery overgrown with weeds.

Stonecipher started his business with one helicopter and no employees 15 years ago, and now he has 16 helicopters, a handful of planes and 54 employees.