Sentences with phrase «buying failing companies»

Great - grandfather Mario Santo Domingo, a banker in Barranquilla, Colombia, established family fortune by buying failing companies.

Eggleston and his partners bought the failing company with the express purpose of moving its vast stores of collated contact information into the 21st century.

Not exact matches

AT&T had tried to buy the company that year for $ 39 billion but failed, and Legere was hired to turn it around.

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.

That's mainly because the AHCA eliminates the Obamacare penalties for individuals who fail to buy coverage and companies that decline to provide it.

Perth - based marine farming company Cell Aquaculture has cancelled a deal with Noble Rate to buy its Roxy Casino in Cambodia after it failed to source skilled workers and keep up with ongoing reporting procedures.

The company doesn't pay a dividend and rarely buys back its own stock, so failing to consummate a few major transactions adds to the cash that keeps piling up from dozens of subsidiaries including insurer Geico and BNSF Railway.

Should the company fail to meet investor's high expectations, any sell - off would be a buying opportunity, said Paul Greene, portfolio manager of the $ 3.9 billion T Rowe Price Media and Telecommunications fund.

A failed business may simply cease operations; with the owners and investors absorbing the losses (if any); a troubled business on the brink of going under may seek to merge with another company that has the resources to keep it afloat and out of bankruptcy; or a dying business may be bought up by another, stronger company, seeking to breathe new life into it or simply to acquire its assets.

The U.S. private equity group is buying a speciality chemical unit that the Dutch company put on the block after a failed PPG bid.

Indeed, the company has a pretty impressive amount of cash on hand, and after its failed attempt to buy AstraZenca (AZN) last year, there is still talk on the Street that the company will be active on the acquisition trail in 2015.

As many as 85 % of companies that buy CRM software to automate sales efforts don't pick the right tools because they fail to define business objectives or develop processes for meeting objectives.»

But many companies fail to take advantage of consumer interest in buying green, even when they are using green practices.

Talks about the deal have happened as recently as this month, but these discussions are said to be failed as the Redmond based company was quite apprehensive by Nokia's slumping market position and high price tag for the buy - out.

According to the company, an unknown person lost $ 2,000 when buying a $ 1,000 gift card in a failed «double spend» attack.

Denver Wine Collector Loses $ 1.7 Million to Crooked Vendor, Sues Insurer: A Denver wine collector who once ran the nation's fourth largest HMO has sued an insurance company for failing to cover his losses after a California vendor took the collector's payment for $ 1.7 million and instead of using it to buy wine, spent the money to hire female escorts, buy luxury cars and pay his daughter's college tuition...

Creative destruction: the constant churn of new companies, some of which get bought, some of which grow into giants of their own, but most of which fail.

If the companies then failed to maintain their R&D spending they would be compelled to buy them back.

Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder (and husband of failed NY - 19 candidate Sean Eldridge) who bought «The New Republic» in 2012 and precipitated the greatest staff exodus in the magazine's history, announced that he would be selling the company, saying it needs «new leadership and vision.»

But, if we start getting our sugar from natural sources like whole fruits and vegetables and buy less sweets, maybe we'll see the previously impossible: a failed sugary food company.

Please buy this game whenever you get the opportunity since this has been Game Republic's finest game and its company truly needs the funds after the utter fail of Folklore on the PS3.

Communicate the initiative to the rest of the company — unless front - line managers buy into learning initiatives, they may fail to support employees using time on training.

The State did not grant or loan the company money, it invested in it (bought a share of the company for $ 500k - it also bought into the semiconductor company that failed with all losing).

Before HP went all in with its failed webOS initiative after buying Palm, the company previously included Android powered tablets with its highest - end TouchSmart printers as companion devices to be used in tandem with the printers for wireless file and photo printing.

Less visible, but equally impoverishing, are sins of omission: When undervalued, overcapitalized companies fail to grab a rare opportunity to buy back stock at a wide discount from intrinsic value.

If you buy gift cards, there is the risk that they may not be honored if the company fails to get a restructuring done.

Those who do buy shares in these companies stand to make exceptionally high profits when the companies succeed, but also have a higher than normal risk that the venture will fail and cause a loss of investment capital.

The same way the shares you buy in a company gives you rights to lay claims on the assets and earnings of the company, you can lose the money you invested if the company fails.

When compared to the benchmark averages (sometimes referred to «Lipper Averages «-RRB-, more than 60 % of actively managed stock mutual funds fail to outperform their segment indexes (in other words, if a mutual fund targets the oil and gas industry, you'll do better just buying an index fund targeting the entire oil and gas industry rather than buying an actively managed mutual fund that targeted only the «best» companies within the oil and gas industry).

Stocks are issued, and they pay dividends, get bought out, fail, spin off another company, etc..

In other words, if you buy something worth # 1000 with your credit card, the company fails to deliver for any reason and you can not get a refund from them directly, you are entitled to make a claim from your credit card company for the full amount.

When you buy anything using your credit card and fail to pay off the debt, the credit card company can't easily repossess the purchased item and recover the loss.

The welcome effect is that people took it as a matter of course that stocks were real businesses bought for ownership, although stock buyers had the reputation of being slick and wily because their ownership positions were based on the current and future profitability of companies rather than secured bonds which had been the hallmark of traditional conservative investing accounts because property could be sold to return part of your principal in the event that the business failed.

Within the last 18 years, sequels have been planned and cancelled, the company has gone bankrupt and then bought the IP back, and the game was re-released in 2010 and had a failed Kickstarter a few years ago for a remake.

They failed to take radical action, such as buying game development companies or cutting deals to increase their rate of exclusives.

It would create a «cap and trade» system under which companies that failed to meet the goals could buy «credits» from companies that exceeded them, an approach used to reduce acid rain.

Some in the industry have committed on paper to greater supply chain traceability and more responsible sourcing practices, but so far companies buying minerals from eastern Congo have failed to move beyond the rhetoric and put in place credible due diligence measures.

Of course, we as consumers have a choice every time we buy a product, and based on the decisions we make, some companies fail and some succeed.

Because there wasn't large - scale internal buy - in to some of the radical changes the company aimed to make, including the discontinuation of markdowns and revamping store layouts, these efforts have largely failed — with some experts wondering if the company will even survive.

Some examples include a contract dispute where less than the projected product sales were reaped on expensive, luxury medical machines because hospitals didn't want to buy them, environmental / bankruptcy claims alleging fraud where a spun - off company failed because of decreased housing demands, and fraud claims where investors made risky investments without protections and lost big.

A typical example of a «narrow» arbitration agreement might be found in a buy - sell agreement that calls for the buyout of a manager's stock in a closely held company upon death at fair market value as of the date of death as determined by mutual agreement with an arbitrator chosen by some specified method determining the fair market vale as of the relevant date if the parties fail to reach a mutual agreement within X days.

In essence, if a director or officer fails to ensure that the company discloses adverse material information, then they will likely be faced with a class action lawsuit by shareholders who bought shares in the secondary market during the time period when the information was not disclosed.

It is very common for another company to buy out existing client policies from a failed company and assume the risk.

One thing that many people who are buying a car after a long period of not owning one (or are buying their first car ever) fail to realize is that the insurance company is a little frightened of a driver who hasn't been behind the wheel in years and covered by insurance.

Quotes are one of the most effective tools in determining which company is going to offer the best deal for your particular situation, and while getting multiple quotes will not necessarily lead to hundreds of dollars in savings, those who fail to get quotes before they buy their policy will have no idea how competitive their rates are or if there are far more affordable premiums available from a different provider.

The town got its start when the American Woolen Company bought out the Winooski Falls Mill District at the turn of the 20th century — the purchase brought economic growth to the failing area which eventually led to Winooski being incorporated as a city in 1922.

Several tech companies, including Twitter and Google, have faced criticism for failing to curb the spread of «fake news» on its platforms, and allowing Russian - backed trolls to buy ads to spread misinformation on their platforms.

My supervisor felt that the idea was mundane and old and would surely fail to encourage customers to buy the company's products.

On Feb. 26, Senators McCaskill (D - MO) and Rockefeller (D - WV) introduced legislation that will better equip the nation's top consumer protection agency with the tools needed to crack down on «patent trolls» — companies that buy patents, but then fail to actually produce goods or services, opting instead to intimidate or sue other small businesses.

Are you one of those bitter people who were duped into buying a «by owner» company franchise only to find out the public doesn't trust them and now it's failing?