Sentences with phrase «by global corporations»

Our business credit products feature the Dun & Bradstreet D - U-N-S ® Number, a unique nine - digit identification sequence used by the world's most influential standards - setting organizations and recognized, recommended and often required by global corporations, governments, industry and trade associations.

These are writers who would formally have been published by small to medium publishing companies, but those have now been gobbled up by the global corporations.

It is a marketing campaign supported by the wealthy and by global corporations.

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Those business owners have long complained that the disparity is unfair, especially in view of the fact that many multinationals pay much less than the 35 percent statutory corporate tax rate by exploiting abundant loopholes and tax breaks available to large, global corporations.

In 2015, revenue for the 500 largest global corporations dropped 11.5 % to $ 27.6 trillion, owing to falling oil prices and in part by the surge in value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwide.

According to one 2010 assessment, companies that help large corporations manage their internal printing costs have stumbled upon a global market that's expanding by more than 30 % annually.

The Fortune Global 500 is our annual ranking of the largest 500 corporations worldwide as measured by total revenue, whereas the Fortune 500 is exclusively U.S. corporations.

Like other corporations that sponsor the Olympics, export - oriented chaebols participating as sponsors during the games stand to gain by increasing their visibility on a global platform.

As Dominic Barton, the global managing director of McKinsey & Co., noted recently in Canadian Business cash levels for corporations in this country have increased by 60 % since 2008.

Led by corporate members, it certifies firms that are at least 51 % owned, managed and controlled by women and connects them with the growing global demand from corporations and the public sector for diverse and innovative suppliers.

As a market leader, he has been called upon by both Metro Vancouver and large global corporations with their development of strategies, implementation of strategies and ultimately relocations, dispositions and renewals, maximizing value in each transaction.

Founded in 1955 by John C. van Eck, Van Eck Associates Corporation was among the first U.S. investment managers to help investors achieve greater diversification through global investing.

This was followed by an announcement made by a global food and service distribution company, Sysco Corporation, who said they have purchased 50Tesla Semi trucks as part of a company commitment to reduce environmental impact for its operations.

Founded in 2014 by 25 leading Israeli investors and high - tech entrepreneurs, our global network currently comprises 150 multinational corporations and investors, together with over 8,500 startups.

Showcasing dozens of practical examples of successful companies doing well by doing good ranging from solo entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 global corporations) anyone with the responsibility for any manner of commerce can learn how to heal the world while gaining the practical marketing savvy to turn ethical and moral values into business success.

Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World shows dozens of practical examples of successful companies doing well by doing good — from solopreneurs to Fortune 100 global corporations.

A new survey out today by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) shows that 61 % of risk managers believe that over the last six months, the probability of an event that turns over the entire global financial system's applecart just went up.

A CONVERSATION STARTER By Paula L. Green Trade credit insurance is making it easier for companies to interact with their suppliers around the world, and usage is soaring as global corporations recognize the risk - mitigating benefits.

The first one that comes to mind for most people is Exxon Mobil (XOM), a multi-national corporation that is number # 3 on the Fortune Global 500 list (as of 2011) and the largest company in the world (by revenue).

The next session, Investors on the Spot: Updating the Fundamentals of hotel Investment, was moderated by Nick van Marken, Global Head — Hospitality, Deloitte in conversation with Coley Brenan, Partner, Head of Europe, KSL Capital Partners, Zachary Schwartz, Vice President, European Hotels, Cerberus Capital, Sanjay Singh, Managing Director, Fico Corporation and Desmond Taljaard, Managing Director — Hotels, London & Regional.

CorpWatch works to promote environmental, social and human rights at the local, national and global levels by holding multinational corporations accountable for their actions.

This global hub, also known as «Gateway of the Americas», has everything that EB - 5 investor might want besides a growing number of EB - 5 approved projects; largest concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations, rated Number 2 in Business Friendliness and Number 3 in Foreign Direct Investment Strategy by FDI Intelligence (a division of Financial Times), and is undoubtedly one of fastest growing urban centers of the world in commerce, finance, culture, media, arts, entertainment and international trade.»

Equibit Development Corporation, creator of the Equibit Blockchain and Blockchain applications for the global securities industry, said it plans to raise as much as $ 7 million in an initial coin offering, one of the largest on record by a Canadian - based company.

We have been recognized as one of Canada's Greenest Employers, one of Canada's 50 Most Socially Responsible Corporations, and on February 15th, of this year, we were ranked 34th in The World's Most Respected Companies by Barron's, one of two Canadian Companies to be on the list and one of two global banks in the top 50.

Global bond funds invest in a wide variety of bonds issued by various public and private entities around the world, including sovereign governments, international agencies, state and local authorities, and private corporations.

Important highlights from upcoming meetings, provided by Glass Lewis» global research team The AES Corporation New York Stock Exchange — April 16 With permission from the SEC, The AES Corporation has excluded a shareholder proposal -LSB-...]

One of the major thrusts of this Asian Consultation organised by the CCA is the arsenal of measures by which the menace of capitalist appetites of giant corporations and their global operations may be stemmed so as to secure for all persons a fair share of the work, wealth and happiness as a sine qua non of a just world system.

Day in and day out we are surrounded by globalising developments viz., the emergence of the global communication industry; the phenomenal growth of transnational corporations; the dominance of finance capital; globalization of poverty and hunger.

This process is fostered mainly by the global transnational corporations (TNCs) using international agencies such as WB / IMF / WTO, the governments of industrialized states, and collaborating local elites.

The global economy is run by a handful of international institutions, national governments, and corporations.

«In the United States, «Comsat» — the Communications Satellite Corporation — Is planning the first launching of a commercial - type communication satellite in 1966, and the company expects its initial system with global capacity to be in operation by 1967..., The establishment of such a system would, however, also have important legal and political aspects, such as the participation of governments in the ownership, use and management of the satellite system.

If it is ethically unacceptable to have the world controlled by transnational corporations alone, and if we can not trust global political authority to represent the interests of ordinary citizens, ethicists are under pressure to devise alternative images of a desirable future.

See the skeptical treatment of these developments by Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanaush, Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order (New York; Simon & Shuster, 1994).

While energy companies are the most frequent targets of climate activism, a new report by GRAIN shows that large food corporations — especially in the meat and dairy sector — are huge contributors to global climate change.

It's what Ms Meldrum calls «profits with purpose» an idea awarded by global accreditation as a B - Corporation, which Whole Kids has.

These were developed by applying a food and agribusiness lens to previous megatrend analysis including CSIRO's global megatrends6 and the agriculture megatrends developed in partnership with the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) 7.

There are a number of smaller processors and acquirers including The Union Dairy Company (backed by The Midfield Group and global agricultural merchant Louis Dreyfus), Beston, Bega, Australian Dairy Farmers Corporation and Australian Consolidated Milk.

Olera ® Shortenings and Oils, a food division of Global Agri - trade Corporation (GATC), announced its plan to completely convert its full offerings of palm and palm kernel shortenings and oils to 100 % Certified Sustainable grade by end of 2017.

The Global Compact was introduced by then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to encourage corporations to align «their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.»

The turbines were made by Vestas, a global corporation headquartered in Denmark, with a wind turbine manufacturing facility in Colorado.

«If Britain's acrimonious divorce talks with the EU are anything to go by, the country isn't well - prepared to negotiate a new global web of trade agreements,» the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) concluded.

Another approach which is used in U.S. state and local taxation by virtue of an interstate compact, is to have entities (or consolidated groups of corporations) prepare one tax return for the entire world and then to allocate pro-rata percentages of that global return to different jurisdictions based upon a handful of factors that are relatively hard to manipulate and bear a meaningful relationship to where income is earned such as sales, employment and the location of physical assets.

And although some of our finest universities are altering their fundamental architecture in response to globalization — Duke University president Richard Brodhead said recently that by the middle of this century the great universities will be «global network universities» — the institutions that have the most experience in operating globally are corporations.

Skip Willis, president and CEO of Carbon Capital Management, a Toronto - based «carbon monetization» corporation, predicts that by the end of 2008 the global carbon trading system will have topped $ 100 billion.

Many perceive it as driven by the global market, enriching the global corporation, and adding yet another force by which the poor can be squeezed out of their livelihoods.

Ali Ahmed, manager of Cisco Global Energy Management and Sustainability, said that «by extending the benefits of affordable solar energy that we have as a corporation to our employees and other stakeholders, we are multiplying our sustainability impact.»

Such keystone actors among corporations, the authors say, can be defined by the following characteristics: a) they dominate global production revenues and volumes within a particular sector, b) control globally relevant segments of production, c) connect ecosystems globally through subsidiaries, and d) influence global governance processes and institutions.

The global proliferation of smart phones, individually associated with a unique identifier (IP address), and thus geographical region, in conjunction with social media information on the hearts and minds of users, data mined and sold to corporations with nefarious intentions has hijacked the zeitgeist of individuals, thus regions and voting blocks and countries and entire societies by aggregating the sum - total of information.

The initiative, launched March 2 by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, aims to unite higher education and the private sector to accelerate the application of thought leadership to global public health informatics, policy development, strategic planning, programmatic implementation and evaluation.

A decision has been reached by the arbitrator in the dispute between COMSAT Corporation, now part of Lockheed - Martin Global Telecommunications, and Associated Universities, Inc regarding additional costs on the contract to design and construct the Green Bank Telescope.