Sentences with phrase «by larger companies when»

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When Fortune introduced its list of the 500 largest U.S. companies by revenue, in 1955, it included five U.S. automakers.

The world's largest publicly - traded oil and gas company by market value has ridden out a collapse in crude prices better than most, its vertically - integrated model allowing downstream businesses to capture the value that upstream operations lose when oil prices are low.

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

Being relatively new to the industry myself, I have become acutely aware of new cosmetics & hair launches (Cosmoprof North America is my happy place) so when I found out Lawless was all natural and started by an entrepreneur whose business I was already familiar with, Suja Juice, the largest organic juice company in the US, I was immediately interested in the story.

Alliance Santé, as his company was called by the mid-1990s, expanded further into Europe until 1997, when Pessina, believing he could rationalize the costs of pharmacies with his wholesale business, merged with UniChem, one of Britain's largest pharmacy chains and a public company.

So when the company announced in February that it was giving up payday lending in Ontario — by far its largest market — some were understandably confused; this would be like McDonald's giving up not just hamburgers, but food.

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.

Some have started charging mid-size corporate customers, who employ 2,000 to 10,000 people, additional fees for integrating medical claims and pharmaceutical claims when they are managed by different companies, Dross said, and could require those fees for larger clients as well.

But in a letter sent last month to CEOs of the S&P 500 and large companies in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink criticized corporate leaders» use of share buybacks and dividends when they might be better served by investing in «innovation, skilled workforces or essential capital expenditures necessary to sustain long - term growth.»

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.

Equity crowdfunding is when a company raises capital by selling small pieces of equity to a large number of investors.

Reuters reported at the time of the March deal that it was the largest takeover of a Canadian company by a foreign firm since 2015, when Spanish - based Repsol agreed to buy Talisman energy.

The factory and its 500 workers will have the capacity to produce 1.2 GW of the company's large - format Series 6 modules when fully ramped, which is expected by the end of 2020.

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.

Generally, a bear market happens when major indexes like the S&P 500, which tracks the performance of 500 companies» stocks, and the Dow Jones industrial average, which follows 30 of the largest stocks, drop by 20 percent or more from a peak and stay that low for at least two months.

I have seen Open Innovation being discussed and sought after by companies both large and small, and I agree with you that Open Innovation works the best when the definition of a problem is well - defined and the level of understanding among people involved in the effort are mature enough

When I reach him by phone, he tells me that SolarCity is in a «place now where a strong operator can take over without much impact,» and that he plans to take a break before starting another company that might have «another large impact on humanity.»

Tesco, Britain's largest grocery company, failed in spectacular fashion when it tried to launch the Fresh & Easy brand throughout the western U.S. Aldi, on the other hand, which has won the U.K.'s Best Supermarket award, sponsored by the consumer watchdog Which?

The dramatic fall from grace appears to have occurred when Facebook stepped on a third rail: the large - scale data collection by an outside party — Cambridge Analytica — without the company's knowledge, said Peter Crist, chairman of the executive search firm Crist Kolder Associates.

Barwick was at the helm of Goldcorp when it grew to become the third largest gold company in the world by market capitalisation.

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.

Bonds are normally issued by companies or governments when they are in need for a large amount of funds.

When TSLA and SCTY shareholders vote on the proposed merger on November 17, investors need to question whether this merger is just another promise by Musk to distract from larger issues facing both companies.

In addition to the obvious problems - when most services are provided by a small number of large bus companies - the OFT's five - month probe found many people complaining about «predatory behaviour of incumbent firms designed to eliminate competition from new entrants».

The value of stock in a multiple sclerosis drug company - which includes large holdings by members of Congress - collapsed Tuesday when company officials announced the drug failed during recent clinical trials.

By buying in right now, they get the company stock for a cheaper price than when the company is large.

By 1807, salt manufacturing was the island's second largest industry, but it declined after the War of 1812 when large, industrial companies began popping up along the coast.

In 2007, the company was acquired by American Capital which is a very large private equity firm and that was when I was brought in as a CEO to run the company.

There are many things that concern me about this whole situation — the largest of which is that companies will bend to the will of terrorists, and that terrorism is now dictating the art we can and can not produce as was the case yesterday when Gore Verbinski «s comedy Pyongyang was canceled by New Regency.

When executives at Pearson, the world's largest for - profit education company, held their London shareholder meeting Friday, they were greeted by activists from the American Federation of Teachers, urging them to oppose so - called «gag orders» restricting teachers from revealing information about Pearson's Common Core tests.

I don't feel the need to have my own «work» done by a large company who then sends it out to someone else — however with this statement sometimes vanity presses use a distributor like Lighting Source to create a large number of books when I can use this very distributor myself.

I clearly remember how excited I was in the early 1990s when I realized that what I had been doing (designing printing materials as an art director of a large commercial printing company) with a team of forty highly skilled people and millions of dollars of equipment could now be done by a single person working at their desk.

When Irene says the «strength in numbers» trend is not present in the stock market, she means that just by diversifying over a large number of companies does not guarantee that you will avoid mediocre returns.

The largest credit card company in the United States is Citibank, when measured by outstanding loans, active user accounts and total lines of credit.

Like with all funds, what you own when you own shares in an open - end fund is a proportionate share of a large portfolio of assets run by a management company.

Even when applying online, larger loan amounts will often need to be underwritten by someone within the company who checks a borrower's documentation, other obligations, and debt - to - income ratio.

The 77 million Americans pursued and often harassed by debt collection agencies won a moment of relief when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered the nation's two largest debt buying companies to stop collecting on $ 128 million in debt and...

This was the prize coveted by Bill Ackman when he acquired a large block of Target shares during the peak of the real estate bubble, and subsequently tried to force management to spin off the real estate holdings into a separate company and to lease back those stores, thereby «unlocking» value.

For a mutual fund company, Steadyhand takes an unconventional approach by offering low - cost funds, co-investing along with clients, hiring portfolio managers who make concentrated bets on their «best ideas», behaving like part - owners of businesses and promising to close its funds to new investors when the fund gets too large.

Hippo Insurance offers prospective policyholders cheap quotes when compared to quotes offered by large insurance companies, like State Farm and Allstate.

When he saw a truck drive by with a logo from a large gas company, he said to my mom, «If I could get in that company and get into sales, we'd be laughing.»

Last year, for example, when the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index posted a paltry total return of 1.4 % with dividends included, 66 % of «actively managed» large - company stock funds posted smaller returns than the index, according to the latest SPIVA U.S. Scorecard released Wednesday by S&P Dow Jones Indices.

I'm often bewildered by investors who award large - cap & small - cap companies very different valuations, even when they sport the same set of fundamentals.

International stock funds are affected by currency exchange risk and are inherently riskier, even when investing in large international companies that are indistinguishable from large domestic companies.

Therefore the venture capitalist earns a return when there is an exit — an acquisition by a larger company, or an initial public offering in which shares are sold to the investing public.

I applaud Purina for its work with helping animals in shelters but 1) I have a dog that suffers sever allergies to their food and 2) they are owned by Nestle which is right up there with a lot of other large companies when it comes to stupidity.

When it comes to costuming, larger dogs are increasingly joining the fun, says Erin Breig, sales and product development for Richmond Hill, N.Y. - based Rubie's Costume Company, Inc. «It used to be a market controlled by small and medium dogs, but the big dogs want to dress up and be fashionable too,» says Breig.

It is important to keep in mind that many of the larger resort hotels tend to be pricey on the week - end and when you will be taking a trip for business chances are you will get a travel package in britain for company people by going right to the resort hotels web site or calling the resort.

One «series» that really slipped under the radar when it was released, but has since acquired a quite large fandom, is a quadrilogy of titles (often interpreted as a trilogy) that focus on death and reincarnation, directed by a company called Quintet.

The responses weren't adequate for Sterling, however, not just because Grosso used false equivalencies to established methods of price flexibility and indirectly dismissed Sterling and others» concerns about the industry but because it didn't address all of Sterling's questions, namely how the service is being responsibly implemented, if users are put off when they learn they may be paying more for the same item, about the risk of saturating the mobile gaming market, and whether or not the company was approached by developers making larger games for console and PC.