Sentences with phrase «buying part of a company»

It also looks at investments where Buffett bought it all, and where Buffett bought part of a company.

HTC has been in dire straits for a while, but the smartphone manufacturer finally got a long - awaited lifeline Wednesday when Google confirmed it would buy part of the company for $ 1.1 billion.

Not exact matches

Shares of KLX rose 9 percent on Friday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Boeing is nearing a deal to buy the aerospace parts company.

In 2015, Tom Zhu said Tesla would double its spending on Chinese - made parts, committing to buying $ 500 million worth of supplies from Chinese companies that year; such spending has likely only skyrocketed.

When someone is ready to buy your company, they are going to look at the quality / experience of the managers, as the retention of those people will be part of the deal.

Lewenza recommends buying stocks in integrated companies — those that both produce and refine oil, so that one part of the business is essentially benefiting from the misfortune of the other — as well as in oil transportation, such as pipeline companies.

Throughout most of 2016, sales continued to hum along smoothly as all - day breakfast lured customers that were persuaded to buy the company's Egg McMuffin or hash browns for lunch or other parts of the day.

Sky rose 4.1 percent, making it one of the top performers in Europe, boosted by the news that Comcast, parent company of CNBC, and Verizon said they are interested in buying certain parts of 21st Century Fox.

When I founded Zipcar we were very community focused, we had lot of parties where we provided the transportation and they provided the potluck picnics or the destination, and whenever I needed cars or parking locations or new employees or surveys of what cars to buy, I went to my customers, all the time they were front and center and part of building that company.

More importantly for Amazon, the tablet is supposed to encourage users to buy more Amazon products and services, which is part of the reason why the company is selling the device so cheaply.

As part of its attempts to satisfy community concerns, Alcoa has also bought more than 27 residential houses in the Wagerup area, however the company spokesperson said this was not unusual in an industrial area.

Shortly after buying Odeo, Williams wrote a blog post that announced his intentions to sell the podcasting part of the company — a New York start - up paid a reported $ 1 million for the service — and focus on Twitter.

But the Seattle - based company's physical stores are a small part of its business, making up just 3 % of its total revenue between July and September, even though it bought Whole Foods and its 470 stores during that period.

Telecom analyst Iain Grant said Lacavera's position becomes stronger because he still owns part of the company even if he's unable to buy the rest of it back.

The company said it expects to use part of the proceeds to buy back shares and raised its repurchase program by $ 5 billion to $ 7.7 billion.

While a lot of retail companies have suffered this year — in part because of bad weather in the first quarter — if you look carefully, there are still some good buys on the market.

So if he buys up a chunk of your company, take it as a mark of confidence: The sale of CPPIB's stake in auto parts manufacturer Gates Corp. for $ 1.5 billion and its $ 128 - million purchase of 115,000 acres of Saskatchewan farmland are just two recent examples that show no deal is too big or small for the CCPIB head honcho.

The parts of Yahoo that were not bought by Verizon will become a company named Altaba.

It is known as a «blank check company,» because investors buy into the fund without knowing which company they will end up owning a part of.

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

While those big boxes suit some enterprise situations, it's clear that more companies are offloading at least part of their work to cloud providers, which means they buy fewer servers less often than they had in the past.

Teva, for its part, is headquartered in Israel, though of the three companies, it stands to gain the biggest tax benefit if its proposed acquisition is successful: The company said that buying Mylan would allow it to reap $ 2 billion per year in tax savings and other «cost synergies.»

The first part of the promotion gave customers a chance to participate in the company's efforts to buy a section of land on the U.S. - Mexico border where President Donald Trump plans to build a wall.

The Wall Street Journal and CNBC reported in November that Comcast and Verizon had approached Fox about buying at least part of the company, providing the first signs of a bidding war.

Although the terms of the Knowingly purchase haven't been made public, sources who looked into buying some or all of the assets said the initial price for the editorial part of the company was $ 6 million, but eventually that was reduced to $ 1 million, and still many bidders backed out — in part because the editorial staff had all been let go.

And even though aluminum, which faces a 10 % import tax, isn't a big part of Toyota vehicles directly, Lentz notes that it is a component of parts the company buys from suppliers, which could raise the price of those as well.

By 1992 they had two small acquisitions under their belts and were ready to buy a larger plant — the one that the company now occupies — from a big player named MacMillan Bloedel (which is now part of Weyerhaeuser).

To expand its presence in the auto industry, the company bought 49 percent of Spanish auto - parts maker Ficosa International SA last year.

In January, Axel Springer bought a 7 % stake in Business Insider as part of a $ 25 million funding round that valued the company at $ 200 million.

Instead of buying into the «Moses myth» — venerating a small cluster of genius individuals with the power to part waters — companies can tap on design thinking to systematically build a bridge, according to University of Virginia Darden School of Business professor Jeanne Liedtka, «It's not one or the other — you can do both.»

It's part of HMD Global's quest to resurrect the Nokia brand name, which it inherited in 2016 when the startup and another Foxconn subsidiary company bought Microsoft's entry - level phone business for $ 350 million.

His shares were bought as part of the company's stock - purchase plan, so he's also suing on behalf of the plan.

To prepare for this shift in 3D printing, one that will see more companies using additive manufacturing, especially with metals, to manufacture end - use parts, companies are staffing up, training new workers, and buying more 3D printing machines, SDM's report shows that 73 % of the 700 respondents to SDM's survey said their companies plan to increase their in - house production of additively manufactured parts, a trend more pronounced in the aerospace and medical industries.

DeFrancesco was part of an investment syndicate led by Yogen Früz co-founder Michael Serruya that bought $ 15 - million worth of shares two years ago, providing the company with desperately needed cash, and later exercised another $ 15 million in warrants.

Acquisitions can also be focused on buying component companies that are part of your distribution chain.

Overall, concluded political scientist Yun - han Chu, who studied Asian Barometer surveys about East Asians» commitment to democracy, «authoritarianism remains a fierce competitor of democracy in East Asia,» in no small part because of the influence of China's ability to foster economic success without real political change, providing an alternative model that is clearly visible to other East Asians, who travel to China, work with Chinese companies, buy Chinese products, and host Chinese officials.

It's part of an acquisition spree that comes from a war chest of $ 50 million that Solium has told the public markets is going to buying companies and developing new products.

Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission slapped a $ 35 million fine on the portion of the company — not the part Verizon bought — liable for the leak.

It's not entirely clear how Apple is reaching that number, but a lot of that money is just part of the company's normal accounting for things like buying component parts and growing its digital software marketplace.

Silent Circle has received a lawsuit from Geeksphone, the company's former joint venture partner, as Silent Circle has allegedly not paid part of the agreed amount to buy out Geeksphone's stake in the partnership.

The San Francisco - based company reported financials to shareholders as part of a formal bid Tuesday night from a SoftBank Group Corp. - led consortium looking to buy a large block of stock.

Otto, a self - driving truck company bought by Uber for $ 670 million, is using sensor technology that is now part of a lawsuit brought against Uber by Alphabet - owned Waymo.

I spelled this out here on the blog back in October, it was the most riveting part of Einhorn's presentation (see: Green Mountain Coffee: We're a Great Company, Buy Our Shares From Us).

That year, as part of President Ronald Reagan's broad moves to deregulate financial markets, the SEC eased its rules to allow companies to buy their own shares on the open market.

Unlike most other cryptocurrencies, Sparkle Coin is part of a three company ecosphere for buying, trading, and using your Sparkle Coins.

It's all part of the phenomenon of repressed yields and cheap credit: Companies are borrowing large amounts of money to buy back their own shares and to buy out each other, instead of funding investments in productive activities.

In addition to pledging a total of $ 3 million in grant funding to recovery and relief efforts to assist pets and pet owners in need, the company's PetSmart Charities philanthropic arm coordinated deliveries of several truckloads of critically needed pet food and pet supplies as part of its Buy A Bag, Give A Meal program to communities deeply impacted by the hurricanes.

After that, the company will look into things like purchasing wholesale businesses — deals that she said are possible in part because of their valuable private stock, which it seems as though, these days, every investor and broker wants to somehow buy.

When you buy 100 shares of Facebook stock, for example, you actually own part of the company.

A new study published recently by the real estate data company Zillow revealed that renters in California and other parts of the country could buy a home without increasing their monthly housing costs.