Sentences with phrase «by troubled companies»

Around the same time, a number of defined - benefit plans sponsored by troubled companies, including Nortel Networks, GM Canada and DaimlerChrysler, began to falter in the wake of the 2008 stock - market market meltdown and had to be restructured.

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The streaming video company and Media Rights Capital, House of Cards production company, issued a statement saying they were «deeply troubled» by the allegations.
In today's world, even a really well - funded startup company will have trouble competing when it's up against a «super-have» company backed by a mega-fund.
I see a lot of startup companies led by inexperienced entrepreneurs get into trouble from overspending because they are trying to adhere to a brilliant strategy in which everything happens in perfect order.
The documents provided by the coalition do illustrate the needless complexity of the tariff system, the red tape that companies go through in order to import goods and raise troubling questions about the conduct of the CBSA.
The company was troubled by a seemingly intractable set of cash - flow problems.
The companies that didn't pay enough attention to underwriting were burned by losses, while longtime leaders like LendingClub Corp. and CAN Capital Inc. struggled with operational troubles and securing sufficient capital.
The fledgling company pushed past other troubles by raising money, although Hindy told of a period of time when he had to pick up a second job, editing stories at Newsday, to get by.
It should be clear by now to Andrew Forrest that his campaign for a political inquiry into the iron ore industry has done the company he runs, Fortescue Metals Group, more harm than good — and might even have stirred up trouble for another local billionaire, Gina Rinehart.
Although Twitter is used by millions of people, its user base has stopped growing and the company has had trouble making money.
In 2013, the company ran into trouble when it was ordered by the FDA to stop selling its kits over questions about the reliability of the results.
To that end, the company is aiming to acquire troubled e-commerce companies and keep operating costs low by sharing resources.
Undaunted by bagging groceries and cleaning out grease traps in the meat room, she rose from a marketing executive to eventually become CEO of Sweetbay Supermarket, a troubled Florida chain owned by Hannaford's parent company.
By analyzing what skills users are having the most trouble with, for example, the company's education team can refine certain parts of the games to help students succeed.
The act comes as revelations of data monitoring and sharing by private companies continue to trouble parents and schools nationwide.
Perth inventor and entrepreneur Steven Goh has bounced back from his troubles at online stockbroking firm Sanford Ltd by attracting $ US10 million ($ A12.5 million) in venture capital funding for his new technology company and emerging from bankruptcy.
And it's a sign, however troubling to nutritionists, that U.S. companies can still prosper by pitching new, innovative products to the perpetually pinched American consumer.
And if history is any indication, an identity change followed by a title switch can cause a company more trouble than it's worth.
In a troubling sign of escalating tensions, dozens of Chinese ships confronted Vietnamese coast guard boats approaching an oil rig deployed by Chinese offshore oil company CNOOC in waters claimed by both nations.
«In troubled times like these, public companies turn to the private - equity markets because they don't have the same financing opportunities that they might otherwise possess, either by selling more stock in the secondary markets or by borrowing whatever money they need from banks,» he says.
A failed business may simply cease operations; with the owners and investors absorbing the losses (if any); a troubled business on the brink of going under may seek to merge with another company that has the resources to keep it afloat and out of bankruptcy; or a dying business may be bought up by another, stronger company, seeking to breathe new life into it or simply to acquire its assets.
By paying executives for performance that does not generate real cash flows, Valeant's board of directors created the misalignment that precipitated the executive behavior that got the company into so much trouble in the first place.
China Railway Materials, a supplier of construction materials to the railroad industry, became one of the first companies that is directly owned by the central government to run into debt trouble.
The owner started having trouble with the company that was processing credit card payments and felt ground down by the large fees charged.
Even some Valley companies are troubled by the conclusions reached in the Apple report.
Without it, the company will have trouble securing enough battery supply to make hundreds of thousands of EVs (which they plan to do for the upcoming, more affordable Model 3, to be unveiled in March 2016), and it will have trouble reducing its prices enough to attract Mr. and Mrs. Everybody (the Gigafactory is expected to slash costs by at least 30 % through economies of scale and high - tech manufacturing).
According to the Global Financial Stability Report released by the IMF (International Monetary Fund), a large number of US companies servicing their debt could be in trouble if the Fed continues to raise rates.
After it ran into trouble, it negotiated a lifeline last year from International Petroleum Investment Company, which is backed by Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al - Nahyan.
The merger between Mittal Steel, the upstart steel conglomerate cobbled together by Indian entrepreneur Lakshmi Mittal, and Arcelor, the pan-European steel firm that was the world's largest steel company at the time, was troubled from the very start.
The IPO was shadowed for months by Facebook's troubled 2012 debut, in which the shares quickly fell below their offering price amid trading glitches and subjected the company and its lead banker, Morgan Stanley, to accusations that they had been greedy in pricing the deal.
Burdened by debt after a failed expansion, the owner of the Orange County Register filed for bankruptcy and its chief executive promised to mount a bid to acquire the troubled newspaper company.
The untimely departure or death of a senior executive could mean trouble for companies that don't have effective strategies for developing personnel By Joel McKay
Fortunately, by 2010 the company was able to forget these troubles after a successful IPO.
These developments include major data privacy breaches such as the Equifax leak, the troubling revelations about the use of personal data assembled by Facebook for marketing and political manipulation, and the introduction of the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulations, which establish new facts on the ground regarding compliance for globally active companies.
Competitors have trouble growing as large because their prices are constantly undercut by this larger, earlier - moving company.
At this point I part company with the strict Calvinist view that there can be no falling from grace, and I am troubled by what seems to be an analogous doctrine in Shinran.
They are more inclined to accept explanations from official sources, from «experts,» from company officials, from well prepared hand - outs created by public relations experts, than to go to the trouble to dig out opposing views that often are represented by small, inefficient, underfinanced and even unpopular groups.
The Chinese regulator has lifted its ban on a facility owned by troubled infant formula producer Bellamy's Australia, which was enforced following the Tasmanian - based company's purchase of a canning facility.
The Chinese regulator has lifted the ban on facility owned by troubled infant formula producer Bellamy's Australia, removing a major complication that emerged following the Tasmanian - based company's purchase of the business in June.
It is usual for a company to run into trouble so soon after going through the thorough vetting process by outside experts of an initial public offering.
troubling patterns in voting that emerge during the reviews by a third - party company employed to chart All - Star Game balloting trends.
We can't becouse the FA do not alow third party intrest in a player and in South America allmost all good players owned by two or three persons or companies, take for instance Neymar Barcelona had to pay undeclared cash to a third party and now they are in trouble becouse of it.
Companies like Dropbox, Blue Apron, and Lifetouch have gotten in trouble by making it difficult to end your sub.
The trouble with the growth charts fount in most doctors offices is that they have been both created and provided «free of charge» by formula companies!
Thank goodness for the intrepid Ed Bruske at Better DC School Food for reporting about, and staying on top of, the troubling issue of food service management companies and the rebates and volume discounts offered to them by major food... [Continue reading]
Thank goodness for the intrepid Ed Bruske at Better DC School Food for reporting about, and staying on top of, the troubling issue of food service management companies and the rebates and volume discounts offered to them by major food manufacturers.
«I am deeply troubled by Randy Altschuler, senior executives in the Grucci fireworks company, Diana Weir, a former Felix Grucci political operative, teaming up to make outrageous, unfounded attacks on my character and my family,» Bishop said.
Insurance companies, meanwhile, are sending increasing signals they will make big changes next year as troubles mount of the marketplaces, which are not addressed by the Republican health care plan.
Liu's office gave $ 6 million worth of business to a troubled company under investigation by the state attorney general and U.S. attorney.
Wilson has experience in turning around troubled companies and served on the task force created by Democratic President Barack Obama to save the auto industry following the economic downturn.
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