Sentences with phrase «by independent business»

It was a case closely watched not only by the respondent — Gerard Comeau, a retired steelworker from Tracadie, N.B. — but, on the one side, by the provinces and their agricultural marketing boards that favour regulation of interprovincial sales and importation of goods and, on the other, by independent business, vintners and others that want direct - to - consumer sales and an open market.

Around the world, over 90 % of its restaurants are owned and run by independent business people.

The goal is to let people shop online if they choose, but also still remove any incentive to click the mouse instead of visiting one of the country's 3,500 bookstores, about 35 % of which are owned by independent business people.

Sold by independent business owners, LulaRoe allows women to pursue their dreams of owning a business and sell great, wearable items to those in their own communities.

Lularoe clothing is sold by independent business owners; at home clothing parties, pop - up boutiques, and other events.

The majority of stores are franchise locations run by independent business entrepreneurs.

The municipal website actually calls the area the «gaybourhood» and describes it as a local initiative by independent businesses.

Not exact matches

Dauman, backed by the company's independent directors, has already gone to court to assert Redstone lacks mental capacity to make business decisions and is being unduly influenced by Shari.

You can readily see that the sale of business opportunities as defined by the FTC rule is quite different from the sale of an independent business.

The laws covering business opportunity ventures usually exclude the sale of an independent business by its owner.

Independent business owners can offer products direct - to - consumers within seconds by snapping a photo and posting it, along with a price, to their social network.

Lately, I've found that even the mission - critical business ideas that make it through my first set of filters have to address another elephant in the room: the question of whether this startup is building something that's going to become a free - standing and independent business or whether it's developing a great feature that is going to be swallowed up, ripped off, or rolled over by one of the big guys in their space in the near future.

Part of the problem, the study found, is that «existing tax rules effectively create a $ 19,399 reporting tax loophole impacting millions of taxpayers» because of the confusion surrounding the requirements for forms 1099 - K, which is supposed to be filed by companies when they earn more than $ 20,000 through 200 or more credit card transactions, and 1099 - MISC, which covers payments above $ 600 to independent contractors, freelancers and small businesses.

By 2012, the business had sales of $ 4 million, 30 full - time employees, 800 independent contractors, and troupes in 25 cities putting on roughly 5,000 performances a year.

The President boosted the number of federal regulations affecting small businesses by 13 percent during his first term in office, leading governmental regulation and red tape to overtake sales, taxes and the cost / availability of insurance as small business's biggest problem, respondents to the National Federation of Independent Business small business survey business's biggest problem, respondents to the National Federation of Independent Business small business survey Business small business survey business survey explain.

A Pershing study released in early 2013 said that almost 1 in 5 independent firm owners would exit the business by the end of 2019.

This year's list is the product of old - fashioned reporting, boosted by data and insight supplied by a trio of independent research firms: Sageworks, which performs financial analyses of privately held companies; Plunkett Research, a business intelligence firm that studies trends affecting the world's most vital industries; and IBISWorld, which provides industry growth figures, five - year revenue projections, employment growth, profit margin averages, and industry competition ratings.

Last Thursday, Poilievre began by citing a Canadian Federation of Independent Business survey in which lots of respondents said «this new Liberal tax increase will make it harder to create jobs and grow.

You get an immediate charitable deduction for the full fair - market value of your business (determined by an independent appraisal), which you can carry forward into future tax years.

Founded in 1984, Vanguard Cleaning Systems» 3,000 - plus franchised commercial cleaning businesses are licensed and supported by a master franchise network of 50 - plus independent regional offices throughout North America.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

Today Independent Street points out a provocative entry by GreenBiz.com's editor Joel Makower, which advocates that businesses actually encourage customers to buy less stuff.

Independent Street recaps hearings held this week by the House's Small Business Committee.

However, the realities of online business haven't consistently allowed independent local companies to truly corner markets that are dominated by multinational corporations.

According to a survey released last week by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), a strong majority (two - thirds) of small businesses think Capitol Hill politics are «at the heart of the country's economic problems» and 76 % believe the current regulatory environment doesn't favor someone looking to start or grow a bBusiness (NFIB), a strong majority (two - thirds) of small businesses think Capitol Hill politics are «at the heart of the country's economic problems» and 76 % believe the current regulatory environment doesn't favor someone looking to start or grow a businessbusiness.

Just when economic bullying by big corporations threatened the whole idea of independent small business, company builders nationwide did the last thing anyone expected — they turned to one another for help.

The second step is to begin a dialogue on how to reduce the need for legislation on every aspect of business life and instead implement regular independent reviews of large companies to identify the ones that pose risks that are not overwhelmingly balanced out by the public benefits they provide.

That could be costly for a business if workers it considered to be independent contractors are later reclassified as employees by the IRS.

However, many of the on - demand companies who have recently re-classified their independent contractors as employees — or who began doing business by only hiring so - called W2 employees — say blaming legal reasons is just a sideshow.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal blog Independent Street, she outlined Magic's qualifications, as summarized by reporter Kelly Spors: «He's started a string of successful businesses, could draw celebrity attention to a stodgy federal agency, cares about helping the disadvantaged and urban revitalization and aligns himself with smart people.»

The concert business as a whole is unrecognizable from the industry once bossed by independent regional promoters.

While sales and revenue grow, the number of composite businesses in this industry is predicted to decline by 3 percent through 2016 as smaller firms consolidate or become independent advisers helping larger companies.

As previously reported by WA Business News, if successful in its takeover attempt, Metcash has plans to close down the Perth offices of FAL and sell the group's 81 Action supermarkets across Australia to independent retailers.

Jessica is a tenacious and independent spirit; she built her business by sheer force of will.

There's no clear reason for this shift — the economy is still expanding, and aggregate restaurant sales are still growing, which is either being driven by new stores or independent businesses.

In a statement to Canadian Business he said, «Surveys are by no means the final word on the quality or performance of a business school, but they do offer prospective students and corporate recruiters a truly independent and objective assessmentBusiness he said, «Surveys are by no means the final word on the quality or performance of a business school, but they do offer prospective students and corporate recruiters a truly independent and objective assessmentbusiness school, but they do offer prospective students and corporate recruiters a truly independent and objective assessment.»

Blake Irving has been the CEO and Board Director of GoDaddy, the world's largest platform for small business - helping millions of independent ventures to grow and thrive online by giving them the digital tools and insights to turn their ambitions into something real.

This website is an independent, non-affiliated source of information, authored and administered by business ethics scholar, Chris MacDonald.

If the company can scale its business for growth, it becomes more flexible in being able to accept a large opportunity that comes along by quickly adding more resources (such as independent contractors).

The class action suit, which seeks to determine the constitutionality of Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, is being led by the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

For much of the nineteenth century, the United States also ran trade deficits and capital account surpluses, but while there were already capital flows driven by investors making independent decisions about where to park their money, roughly 90 percent of the international business done by London banks consisted of trade finance.

George Tamer, oversees a team that works to help independent advisors achieve their business goals by helping them implement industry best practices including marketing and business development, workflow processes, and technology usage.

The multiplier effect of patronizing local businesses has been quantified by the American Independent Business Alliance.

«Record numbers» of jobs are being created, he said that same day in October, which also happened to be the one when he capitulated... sorry, kept his campaign promise... to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, lowering the income tax paid by smaller companies.

Midland National is accredited by the Better Business Bureau, and has earned an A + (Superior) rating from A.M. Best, a large third - party independent reporting and rating company that rates an insurance company on the basis of the company's financial strength, operating performance and ability to meet its ongoing obligations to policyholders.

The 2016 winner and Top 10 Private Business Growth Award Finalists were selected by an independent Jury of accomplished business leaders, who recognized the companies for their successful, sustainable and holistic growth strBusiness Growth Award Finalists were selected by an independent Jury of accomplished business leaders, who recognized the companies for their successful, sustainable and holistic growth strbusiness leaders, who recognized the companies for their successful, sustainable and holistic growth strategies.

«With a stellar team of big data and open source veterans from companies including Hortonworks, MongoDB and MapR, Dremio is the first company to solve this challenge by empowering data consumers — business analysts and data scientists — to be independent and self - directed in their use of data, from any source and at any scale, using their favorite tools.

By staying small and independent as business, it enables us to stick around for longer, and determine our own fate.

The Chamber said in a letter to the PCAOB in May that its members believe the PCAOB, the independent auditing regulator established by the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002, is imposing new «burdens» on business by using the inspections process to pressure auditors to ask more of companies.

Merchant services accounts are offered by specialized providers, independent sales organizations or financial institutions such as banks — although most banks charge fairly high fees for small, home - based or online businesses.