Sentences with phrase «buying consumer companies»

«Given how fast it was growing on a single look, you could see the boom and bust,» says Moore, whose firm specializes in buying consumer companies with strong brand loyalty.

Not exact matches

According to John Crabill, an executive with Mohu, the company's sales doubled during the January and February period when Dish (DISH) announced Sling, which lets consumers buy a bundle of cable channels over the internet.

A onetime Progressive claims rep, Griffith took the helm of the insurer in 2016 with an eye toward convincing consumers to buy a wider range of policies from the company.

Overwhelmed consumers are looking to outsource their consciences to the companies they buy from.

It has announced plans to buy consumer electronics company Belkin, who owns brands Linksys and Wemo, for $ 866 million.

A&W's operating company has been owned by current and former management since 1995, when they bought out global consumer goods giant Unilever.

Today's consumers have become much more intelligent with their buying habits, less loyal to the companies they frequent, therefore it's important to be honest about your intentions and cater to the needs of your audience or you're more likely to lose their interest.

He researched all the possible personas of consumers who buy boots into and came up with one that's relevant for his company's brand.

Usually consumers need time to make up their minds before a company or its influencers bombard them with «buy now» messaging.

Inequality matters to consumers and, if given a choice, they'll buy from companies with lower CEO - to - worker - pay ratios.

It sounds as implausible as a Facebook - Google merger, or RIM buying Apple: Microsoft becoming the world's coolest consumer tech company.

Nike's sales growth has slowed in North America, a development Mark Parker, the company's CEO, attributes to consumers increasingly buying more online and make fewer trips to physical stores.

Research released in September by communications company Digital Bridge said a third of consumers would be more likely to buy something after using mixed / augmented reality to preview products, but more than half think retailers are failing to take full advantage of the technology now available to them.

CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, draws more than 180,000 people and 4,000 companies, all of whom are eager to know: Will this be the year [fill - in - the - blank technology] finally makes the leap from science fiction to something people can buy, and might actually want to?

The company's sales in the region have tumbled 7 % for the first nine months of 2014 despite an overall increase in sportswear gear sales, as consumers buy more shoes, tights and shorts for working out and even for their casual streetwear needs.

For instance, Best Buy takes its customers» reviews to heart by making both improvements to its own company and passing on consumer feedback to its vendors.

Several major retail - facing companies have made it easier for consumers to buy bitcoin in the last few months.

Consumer advocates would like to see the agency require every company involved in selling, buying, or collecting debts to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the information used in the process.

The company has already nurtured an entire community of «dropshippers» — people who buy goods on the cheap, sell them online and ship them to consumers without ever holding the inventory themselves.

And because everything Amazon does ties back to its main e-commerce business, the company's video investment may even cause consumers to buy other stuff on its site.

Companies are conducting massive marketing research on consumer's interests by applying new infomercial concepts that will attract and capture consumers by creative visualization to buy products and services.

Oculus, the virtual reality company Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion, said on Wednesday that over one million people have used the Samsung Gear VR headset in April, which indicates that consumer use of virtual reality technology is growing.

Under the so - called Stock Connect, investors in Hong Kong will be able to buy stocks listed on China's Shenzhen stock exchange, home to many of the country's tech and consumer companies.

«These are big companies, really concerned with their strategic direction,» said Lawrence Glickman, a Cornell history professor and the author of «Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America.»

But he has received numerous requests from individuals hoping to buy its system, and the company aims to have a consumer offering by the end of the year.

In May, Microsoft announced it was testing a new pricing model where, rather than selling the Xbox 360 outright for $ 250 or more, consumers could opt to buy it at a company - owned store in the U.S. for $ 99.

Brand management is so important that Reputations Corporation, a Vancouver - based consultancy group, reports that 72 percent of consumers say reputation influences their buying decisions; 80 percent of employees will accept less pay to work with a company with an excellent reputation; while another 89 percent say reputation is a tiebreaker between equal products.

While nutrition, convenience and price are concerns, consumers, particularly millennials, want the companies they are buying from to also represent their value system.

It hasn't been worth mining bitcoin using standard consumer computer hardware for years because of the kind of processing power involved; the overwhelming majority of ordinary members of public pools will have bought hardware from companies like KnCMiner.

But subsequent deals could be more far - reaching: Consumers who bought 23andMe kits and agreed to donate their genetic information to research automatically consented for 23andMe to sequence their genomes, Forbes reports, and the company says it can share anonymized, pooled information about their self - reported health traits without getting permission first.

A Spotify subscription, which costs around $ 10 per month bought directly from the London - based company, would seem to be a clear draw for younger shoppers, who are both big consumers of music and more likely to be price - sensitive.

The company does a great job of learning about the consumer as they go through the buying process.

LONDON, March 23 - GlaxoSmithKline has withdrawn from the race to buy Pfizer's consumer healthcare business, the British company said on Friday, endangering an auction the U.S. drugmaker hoped would bring in as much as $ 20 billion.

The company wants to influence consumer buying behavior as part of its corporate mission.

Patagonia has always behaved as a maverick company, and its concern for sustainability has led it to pursue a new initiative: it's now actively encouraging consumers to buy less of Patagonia's new apparel.

The consumer technology said Monday that it bought Texture and its parent company Next Issue Media for an undisclosed sum.

At its peak, the company, which sold knick knacks, gadgets and monogrammed consumer items that Vernon sourced from buying trips around the world, had sales of close to $ 300 million.

He has focused on trade relationships where other countries run large surpluses with the U.S., meaning they sell more to U.S. consumers than they buy from American companies.

Earlier this year, Buffett had backed a bid by Kraft Heinz (khc), one of Berkshire's top holdings, to buy Unilever (ul), but the European consumer products company rebuffed the offer.

Yet consumers were not very likely to buy a product or switch brands solely because of a company's good deeds.

Last year, for example, a study conducted by Unilever — a company that does have an admittedly vested interest in knowing this kind of information — polled 20,000 consumers in five countries and 33 percent said that given the option, they would choose to buy from brands that are focused on sustainability.

In a study released on Thursday by ad company Fluent, just 13 % of American consumers said that they would buy the iPhone 8 if its price is over $ 1,000.

The sale was a milestone for Israel's young but huge startup community: The first Israeli consumer - app company to be bought for over $ 1 billion.

Shoppers can now order Best Buy's Deal of the Day products — which include kitchen appliances, televisions and other consumer electronics — by talking to Alexa, the company explained in an announcement.

GE Capital was founded in the 1930s to help consumers buy GE refrigerators and other appliances but had blossomed into a mammoth profit machine with almost no relation to the company's other businesses.

«It's a matter of consumers increasing their income and the companies getting more consumers to buy their products on a regular basis,» he says.

More recently, it's struggled to strike a deal for its consumer healthcare business, with major potential bidders like GlaxoSmithKline pulling out and Procter & Gamble deciding to buy German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA's consumer unit instead.

Consumers are spending more time playing games; they're also becoming more willing to make in - game purchases — spending real money to buy, say, new weapons for their fictional characters — enabling some companies to replace a dependency on new hits with a steady, recurring revenue stream.

When Elon Musk shares his vision for space flight or an electric car; or Steve Jobs shuns a CD - happy world for an iPod / iTunes business plan, or Jeff Bezos creates an online book store that will be «the world's most consumer - centric company, where customers can come to find anything they want to buy online,» they are honoring their epiphanies.

Matthew Strauss, vice-president of portfolio management with Toronto's Signature Global Advisors, adds that, since the recession, the focus has changed from buying export - focused companies to businesses that sell to the domestic consumer.