Sentences with phrase «by a larger company at»

He did — and also displayed flyers that warned customers of knock - offs sold by a large company at the same trade show.

Even if a company were profitable, they are «at risk» of being acquired and shut down by a larger company at any point in time.

Not exact matches

That's only if the company has at least one full - time employee eligible for a premium assistance tax credit or cost - sharing reduction created by the legislation - and analysts say that eligibility isn't an easy thing to judge, meaning all larger employers could face the responsibility come tax - time.

Wherever you are on your entrepreneurial journey, you likely kicked off your career like many of us by taking a job, maybe at a large company, to gain some experience.

In the first decade of the century, the large integrated oil companies traded at an average discount of between 11 % and 12 % compared to their pure - play competitors, according to a study conducted at the time by Citi Investment Research and Analysis.

Laloux said that he finds the situation at Zappos to be especially interesting, because while he's studied some very successful self - managed companies around the world and across varied industries, there's never been an attempt by a company as large as Zappos at making a transition to becoming one.

Months of deliberations behind closed doors at Shell headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, had led the top brass at the world's largest non-state-owned oil company by sales to conclude that the energy industry was changing fundamentally — in a way that could turn the profitable oil - sands operation into a liability.

By market capitalization, Dimon has helped turn the company into the largest U.S. bank, valued at $ 403 billion.

By limiting supply to the market, the two cartels — BPC, a partnership between the largest Russian and Belorussian companies, and Canpotex, made up of Potash Corp. and junior partners Agrium and Mosaic — helped drive the average price of potash from a historic range of between $ 125 and $ 200 a metric tonne to, at one point in 2009, $ 825 a metric tonne.

Blocked from buying Potash Corp. by Canadian government decree in 2010, the company has instead sunk billions into developing its own Saskatchewan site at the Jansen Mine, which, if fully operational, could become the largest potash - producing site in the world.

Today's Globe and Mail reported that CEO's at Canada's 100 largest companies «saw their compensation jump 13 per cent last year, led higher by a 20 - per - cent increase in annual cash bonuses».

At this point, Dua believes, it's more valuable for the company to double its growth in a large market than it is to increase its growth by a factor of 10 in a smaller market, i.e. moderate growth in Chicago beats explosive growth in Tampa.

Performance of the different offerings was uneven; two large funds launched at the company's peak tumbled by 20 per cent at one point, damaging the nascent firm's reputation.

It has already automated sorting and distribution at a number of its busiest facilities — which the company said has improved labor productivity by 20 % — and plans to fully automate all work at its 30 largest US hubs by 2020.

According to a 2013 survey by staffing firm Robert Half International, accountants in a managerial role at large companies in Canada can make between $ 77,000 and $ 101,500 per year.

«Smaller, sometimes over-leveraged companies with decades of drilling inventory at the current pace can create value by combining with larger producers to accelerate development.»

The idea that companies and society at large would benefit if everybody knows what everybody else is earning has been gaining traction recently, helped along by the availability of such information on websites such as Glassdoor.com, PayScale.com, and Salary.com.

Finally, given that TheShare.TV is a wholly owned subsidiary with its own revenues, contracts, and cost centers, management felt that Room 21 Media needed to own its own studios to ensure that Production agreements generated by TheShare.TV would be awarded to the parent company at a comparable price and quality as if delivered by the larger studios.

Continental Europe boasts the world's largest synchronous electricity grid — energy flows freely across the borders of 25 countries, at a fixed frequency of 50 Hz that is maintained by close coordination between the region's power companies.

In October of 2013, for example, Kohlberg Management VI, LLC, the largest shareholder in Performance Sports Group Ltd. (PSG: TSX), sold 3.2 million common shares of the company at $ 12.15 a share to a syndicate of underwriters co-led by RBC Capital Markets and Paradigm Capital Inc..

We may know it now as motion gaming — think the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect (also invented by an Israeli company, PrimeSense)-- but it will soon play a much bigger role in the world at large, according to Intel.

In that statement, Injong Rhee, chief technology officer of Samsung's mobile communications business, said the company looked at a several companies in the public and private cloud infrastructure space and picked Joyent because of its management team, expertise and» robust cloud technology validated by some of the largest Fortune 500 customers.»

An analysis by New York HR consultant Nat Stoddard pegs the price of a CEO mis - hire at a large - cap company at more than US$ 50 million, based not only on salary and severance outlay but also factors like lost productivity and opportunities.

Meanwhile Kia, which was Korea's second - largest car company until it was acquired by Hyundai in 1998, made its debut in the Top 100 at No. 87, ahead of Ferrari and Harley - Davidson.

In fact, employees at large - size companies report spending only 45 percent of their time on primary job duties, according to a survey conducted by the Harris Poll and reported by Atlantic Monthly.

The city also has a fairly large high - growth company density at 191.4 — that's the number of companies out of 100,000 with annual revenues more than $ 2 million (and growing by 20 percent over a three - year period).

The CEOs at Ignition - backed companies are, by and large, cut from the same cloth and, as a result, encourage us to meet with their teams.

The speech, given by Smith to students and faculty at the university's Terry College of Business, covered a lot of ground, but it frequently returned to security issues that kept the former CEO awake at night — foremost among them was the company's large database.

While there are lots of potential ways we could help working mothers, one that may seem counterintuitive is to focus less on the handful of women at the top — just 28 of Canada's 500 largest companies are headed by women — and to emphasize instead the successes happening in the middle.

«The small - business market was underserved until recently, but we've seen a huge increase in demand for our cyber products driven by a critical mass of incidents happening very publicly to large companies,» says Tim Zeilman, vice president at Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.

He seeks out companies that have been written off by investors at large, on the belief these companies will recover.

In recent years, Fitbit — co-founded by James Park, the company's chief executive, and chief technology officer Eric Friedman in 2007 — has also landed large corporate partnerships with health insurance companies and wellness programs at major corporations to make its product the go - to device for such offerings.

«Most medium - sized companies won't have a defined benefit pension plan, like those offered by very large companies or the public sector, so they would want to look at a defined contribution plan,» she explains.

The policy shift at the world's largest software company follows similar moves since October by Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo.

At a moment when the world's fourth - largest pharmaceutical company by sales (Pfizer) is eagerly courting the world's ninth - largest (the very same AstraZeneca from which Bristol decoupled)-- offering, in late May, a monumental dowry of around $ 120 billion — one can be forgiven for not noticing the more substantive change that's sweeping the pharmaceutical industry: Big Pharma is getting smaller.

Even BuzzFeed, the other company that often gets mentioned as a new - media success story, is a relative pipsqueak by comparison: It raised $ 50 million in a financing last year, one of the largest rounds in the media industry, but that values the company at just $ 800 million.

They came back with a handful of suggestions, and John Bankemper, a 30 - year veteran of the company and president of the skylight division, was particularly impressed by two: a large text box touting the company's lifetime warranty and a circular cutout that let shoppers look at the skylight without opening the box.

But Ballantyne says the company has decided to take a more direct approach by making an appearance at a large European show in early fall, the Spoga Gafa garden show in Cologne, Germany.

Fourteen years ago I was employed by a large company that let me work from home several times a week but at the time I felt insecure about the privilege.

TORONTO — BlackBerry Ltd. (TSX: BB) has signed a deal to be bought by a consortium led by its largest shareholder in a deal valued at U$ 4.7 billion, the companies announced Monday.

By contrast, the price point for FiscalNote's software as a service offering starts at around $ 10,000 a year for a nonprofit, and is upward of $ 200,000 for a large private or public company.

The 30 - year - old company had been operating at a loss of about $ 100,000 per day by late 2016 and, with physical music sales plummeting year after year in the industry at large, that trend was unlikely to let up.

In 2015, the eight females who served in the top position at the 100 largest companies by revenue earned an average of $ 22.7 million, compared to $ 14.9 million for male CEOs on the list.

The rate at which employees forfeit their stock awards, typically by leaving the company before fully vesting, is significantly higher at Amazon than at other large tech firms such as Alphabet and Apple, according to an analysis of company filings.

increased support of viable early stage issuers by private equity companies, thereby allowing issuers to defer listing until they are at a more mature stage, or avoid the listing process if they are acquired by a larger entity.

Their venture investors made money by selling their share of these successful companies at a large multiple over what they originally paid for it.

The highest concentration of Gen Y workers are at small companies with less than 100 employees (47 %), followed by medium companies that have between 100 and no more than 1,500 employees (30 %), and the fewest work in large companies with more than 1,500 employees (23 %).

By self - funding, Cavale could force INFLCR to build its own track record with its product, clients and revenues, and ultimately raise a seed round at what he believes to be a fair valuation as opposed to giving up a large piece of his new company at a discount, which is often an issue with raising money pre-revenue.

The company is backed by over 20 years of industry experience and its platform is relied on by accounting and real estate teams at some of the country's largest public and private companies.

This is why Box's losses were so large, and why founder and CEO Aaron Levie was so diluted by the time the company finally IPO'd (Levie owned just over 5 % of Box at the time of IPO).