Sentences with phrase «by large companies such»

This virtuous cycle is supported by the growth in demand for certified bananas by large companies such as Chiquita and Favorita.

Much of the progress has been driven by large companies such as Dow Chemical and DuPont (NYSE: DD).

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Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

As evidenced by a number of recent rebranding strategies that failed miserably, even large companies with the staff and resources to implement such an effort sometimes fail to get it right.

The company, based in Fullerton, California, retrofits large diesel - powered vehicles such as garbage trucks and off - road construction equipment with a system that cuts smog - causing emissions by as much as 90 percent.

The company has come under pressure from outside shareholders to separate its higher - growth assets — notably its stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group — from its struggling core search and e-mail businesses, but such a split would be complicated by the fact that it could land the company with a large tax bill.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. counted $ 331 billion in commercial and industrial bank loans under $ 1 million as of Dec. 31, the largest amount since the end of 2008, when the government agency reported a record $ 336 billion in such loans that are generally taken out by small companies.

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.

While such growth may be impressive for a company built on $ 75,000 in friends - and - family money, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the $ 1 billion - a-year market for 3 - D printers and scanners used by large corporations.

The San Francisco based startup is one of the largest companies known as peer - to - peer lenders and runs a website where consumers can apply for loans that are either funded by individual investors or by institutions such as banks.

On May 13, market research company IC Insights reported that while the Santa Clara company is still the largest microchip company by revenue, it's losing market share to mobile chip manufactures, such as Samsung and Qualcomm.

Private equity firms have been keen investors in businesses that help companies cut costs by outsourcing large parts of their administrative functions, since such operations can generate strong cash flows.

Equities analysts don't doubt that's the case, but point out that for such large, diversified companies, the gaming business remains a junior part of their operations (although they're huge by any stand - alone measure).

Still, Amazon has little experience folding such a large company by valuation into its organization.

The fact that any company would have to make such a large acquisition (the deal increases Google's employee headcount by about 60 %), and the fact that this is far from the only large expenditure Google will have to make to fight such battles, really underlines just how messed up the system is.

Increasingly, companies both large and small have been investing in social media strategies — either by tapping influencer networks, or adopting video editing technology to streamline marketing efforts across such platforms as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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.

Such policies might include providing more incentives for companies (both large and small) to invest in R&D and capital infrastructure, encouraging post-secondary institutions to better tailor their programming to meet market demand in terms of subjects and skills, and making Canada a more attractive country for foreign or start - up companies to invest in by deregulating industries that have no business being as regulated or as protected as they are, such as telecommunications, airlines, and broadcastSuch policies might include providing more incentives for companies (both large and small) to invest in R&D and capital infrastructure, encouraging post-secondary institutions to better tailor their programming to meet market demand in terms of subjects and skills, and making Canada a more attractive country for foreign or start - up companies to invest in by deregulating industries that have no business being as regulated or as protected as they are, such as telecommunications, airlines, and broadcastsuch as telecommunications, airlines, and broadcasting.

Such sites have been part of a larger effort by foreign governments, particularly Russia, to spread propaganda and misinformation through the online services of U.S. tech companies.

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.

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).

Factom is newer but they have still yet to get their software sued by large companies or in important scenarios, such as verifying Tether's financial transactions.

For example, Alibaba and Tencent — both on the forefront of the e-commerce wave in China — have risen by 98 % and 111 %, respectively, so far in 2017.2 Companies such as Sina, a global Internet media company, and Baidu, which operates an Internet search engine, have also generated returns this year that are nearly as strong or stronger than those of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, or Google.3 As the world's second - largest economy, China is rapidly evolving from its former status as a noteworthy emerging market to an economic powerhouse on the rise.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

The same day, the Walgreen Company, the drugstore chain, ended months of speculation by signaling that it would forgo such an arrangement, but a number of large American firms are still considering these transactions.

Such big winners stopped showing up a few years ago, leaving the large drug companies watching the calendar for the day when earnings would be hurt by the loss of key patent protections.

As we all know, the residential security industry as a very hot market — evidenced by new, extremely large companies entering the market, such as AT&T, Comcast, etc..

A European Commission plan to tax the digital turnover of large companies drew scepticism.The criticism came at the first meeting of EU ministers to discuss the plan, which was presented by the Commission last month and entails a 3 % levy on the digital revenues of large multinational corporations such as Google, Facebook and Amazon.

Some companies, such as TD Bank, Canada's largest lender by assets, aren't waiting for Brexit negotiations — set to head into their third round in Brussels next week — to produce more clarity before taking action.

While often true, at important turning points such as 2000 when overvalued small technology companies achieved large - cap status, investors were hit by the double whammy of risky small businesses combined with excessive valuations.

Mr Spalvins was also scathing about the attempts by Foster's Group to manage such a large stable of wine brands prior to Treasury splitting off as a stand - alone wine company in mid-2011.

Brands such as Poland Spring ®, Nestlé ® Pure Life ®, Perrier ® and S. Pellegrino ® have driven Nestlé Waters North America to be the third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume in the U.S. Nestlé Waters North America also owns and operates ReadyRefreshSM by Nestlé ®, the largest home and office water delivery service by volume in the U.S. Based in Stamford, Connecticut with some 8,500 associates, Nestlé Waters is committed to reducing its environmental footprint across its operations.

Brands such as Poland Spring ® Brand 100 % Natural Spring Water, Deer Park ® Brand Natural Spring Water, Nestlé ® Pure Life ®, Perrier ® and San Pellegrino ® have driven Nestlé Waters North America to be the third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume in the U.S. Based in Stamford, Connecticut with about 8,500 employees nationwide, Nestlé Waters North America is committed to reducing its environmental footprint across operations.

Brands such as NESTLÉ ® PURE LIFE ®, POLAND SPRING ®, PERRIER ® and S. PELLEGRINO ® have driven Nestlé Waters North America to be the third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume in the U.S. Based in Stamford, CT with about 7,500 employees across the U.S., Nestlé Waters is reducing its environmental footprint across operations.

Brands such as NESTLÉ PURE LIFE ®, POLAND SPRING ®, PERRIER ® and S.PELLEGRINO ® have driven Nestlé Waters North America to be third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume in the U.S. Based in Stamford, Connecticut with 7,500 employees, Nestlé Waters is dedicated to continually improving sustainability across operations.

Today, the global premium spirits company is run by the fifth generation of his family and distils some of the world's leading brands of Scotch whisky, including the world's most awarded single malt Glenfiddich ®, The Balvenie ® range of handcrafted single malts and the world's third largest blended Scotch, Grant's ®, as well as other iconic spirits brands such as Hendrick's ® Gin, Sailor Jerry ®, Tullamore D.E.W. ® Irish Whiskey, Monkey Shoulder ® triple malt whisky and Drambuie ®.

Brands such as Poland Spring ®, Nestlé ® Pure Life ®, Perrier ®, and S. Pellegrino ® have driven Nestlé Waters North America to be the third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume in the U.S. Based in Stamford, Connecticut with some 8,500 employees, Nestlé Waters is committed to reducing its environmental footprint across operations.

Brands such as Poland Spring ®, Nestlé ® Pure Life ®, Perrier ®, and S. Pellegrino ® have driven NWNA to be the third largest non-alcoholic beverage company by volume in the U.S. Based in Stamford, Connecticut with more than 8,500 employees, NWNA is committed to reducing its environmental footprint across operations.

This move by world's largest baby milk company is described as «terribly cynical» by Baby Milk Action as Nestlé continues to promote its formula with claims such as it is the «natural start» and «protects» babies.

Without the demonstrated support of such large volume buyers, many companies may not consider making big changes in their products beyond what's mandated by the new federal regulations.

Precision Valve and Automation builds manufacturing equipment for large companies such as Apple and was told by the state Department of Taxation and Finance that it sends too much of their product overseas to earn the tax credits owners thought they had qualified for.

The World Wide Web Consortium — an ad hoc organization of more than 400 companies and universities co-hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S., the European Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics in France, and Keio University in Japan — has already released the Semantic Web languages and technologies needed to cross such boundaries, and large companies are exploiting them.

By drastically reducing a drug's risk of failure by guiding it to human testing, PharmaStart expects large drug companies to eye such projects more willingly than they would otherwisBy drastically reducing a drug's risk of failure by guiding it to human testing, PharmaStart expects large drug companies to eye such projects more willingly than they would otherwisby guiding it to human testing, PharmaStart expects large drug companies to eye such projects more willingly than they would otherwise.

This is partially explained by increases in truck share for all four, however other companies such as Mazda and Kia also had large increases in truck share while improving overall fuel economy.

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The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.

The two largest such companies are K12 Inc., a publicly traded education company, and Connections Academy, which is owned by Pearson, the world's largest education company.

You will be encouraged by the juxtaposition of the quaint analog clock and the art - deco instruments with modernities such as iDrive and its large menu screen — reminders that parent company BMW is overseeing operations.

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The Affalterbach based company will have sold over 40,000 units by the end of 2014, thanks in large part to its entry into the compact segment and the broadening of its product range, while the entirely in - house models suchs as the SLS AMG and the more recently presented AMG GT act mainly as image vectors.