Sentences with phrase «cent of all businesses in»

Small business accounts for 97 per cent of all businesses in Western Australia, but an estimated 40 per cent do not have a strategic business plan.

98 per cent of businesses in British Columbia are considered small businesses.

«Considering how nearly 90 per cent of businesses in Canada employ between one and 19 people, it's no surprise staged offices are growing in popularity, vying for businesses that have grown out of their co-working space phase,» says Dietl.

Most agents who fall into the category of the 90 per cent who do less than three or four deals a year ignore the basic premises of what it takes to be in the 10 per cent who do 90 per cent of the business in North America today.

Not exact matches

The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

According to WorkSafe statistics, there are about 126,000 small businesses in WA, accounting for 96.5 per cent of all private sector businesses.

Less than 1 per cent of businesses paid half of Australia's corporate tax take in the year to June 2016, according to ATO data, while the financial services and resources industries were the biggest contributors.

For instance, business spending on research and development has actually dropped to 0.89 per cent of gross domestic product in 2011 from 1.29 per cent 10 years earlier.

Perth - based Amcom Telecommunications has posted a 16 per cent slide in half - year profit to $ 9.3 million on the back of a fall in revenue from its IT services business.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

This year's awards are open to all Australian business women that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above crbusiness women that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above crBusiness Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above crbusiness, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above crbusiness); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above crBusiness Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteria).

The family that holds a majority interest in Diploma Group has formally launched a takeover offer for all shares it doesn't own in the business, at a bargain basement price of 1.5 cents per share.

During that earlier period, American business earned an average of 11 percent or so on equity capital employed and stocks, in aggregate, sold at valuations far above that equity capital (book value), averaging over 150 cents on the dollar.

Some banks reported anecdotally that in various regions broker - originated loans represent about 20 per cent of small business lending.

A new report on small business banking in Australia has found that about 11 per cent of businesses changed their bank over the past two years.

The study also found that, overall, 31 per cent of respondents planned to invest more in their business this year.

Republicans talk of sparking economic growth rates in the range of four per cent, but models run by non-partisan forecasters, such as the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania, predict only a modest increase over the shorter term.

There is an almost universal belief that the world's biggest businesses have cheated and polluted their way to success — with barely ten per cent of respondents in all seven countries surveyed thinking big businesses are «clean».

But the number of small businesses in the Pilbara dropped by 22.4 per cent — the steepest decline of any region.

In the five years to 2000 — 01, the number of small businesses in Australia's state and territory capital cities increased by 6.4 per cent to 945,320, and only Hobart recorded a decrease in the number of small businesseIn the five years to 2000 — 01, the number of small businesses in Australia's state and territory capital cities increased by 6.4 per cent to 945,320, and only Hobart recorded a decrease in the number of small businessein Australia's state and territory capital cities increased by 6.4 per cent to 945,320, and only Hobart recorded a decrease in the number of small businessein the number of small businesses.

Perth's small business count rose by 0.5 per cent over the five year study period, but the number of small businesses in the rest of the state fell by 1.5 per cent.

Finance Minister Carole James says only five per cent of businesses will be paying the full tax rate and those covering the existing health premiums for their employees will see savings as the fees are cut in half and then eliminated.

Dodig has estimated that CIBC's U.S. business will account for 17 per cent of its earnings by 2020, up from nine per cent for the four - month period it owned PrivateBancorp in fiscal 2017.

«They'll export, they'll pay the minimal duty, and see that as a cost of doing business in the U.S.» That sense of business as usual extends to Canada's energy sector, which accounted for 16 per cent of total U.S. - bound exports in 2016.

In his first money - making venture a six years old, Buffett sold packs of Juicy Fruit, Spearmint and Doublemint for five cents a piece, according to Alice Schroeder's 2008 biography, «The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.»

If Home shareholders approve the move, the merged business will have 36 branches, 400 staff and $ 3.5 billion in funds under management, representing about 5 per cent of the WA market.

Bryant Simon, a professor at Temple University, whose book Boardwalk of Dreams chronicles the history of Atlantic City, including Trump's business dealings there, says business owners who worked on the Taj Mahal were often paid just 10 cents to 20 cents on the dollar in the bankruptcy.

Their plan proved difficult to execute: less than two cents of every dollar spent by blacks in the U.S. goes to black - owned businesses, and it's hard to say what's cause and what is eff ect.

There, about 85 per cent of men's clothing and about 95 per cent of women's dresses and about 95 per cent of furs and almost the whole wearing - apparel business are in Jewish hands with the interest of New York Jews predominating.

Scrap iron and steel, a half - billion - dollar business in 1929, which provides the steel industry with half its metal requirements, is owned 90 per cent by Jews, being an outgrowth of the junk business, which at the end of the last century was in the hands of Russian Jews.

Just five per cent of companies that have won a Best Managed award have gone out of business, compared to an estimated 72 per cent of average Canadian firms in a comparable period of time.

In other industries like meal packing a special Jewish branch of the business brings up the total: the kosher meat pack, for example, amounts to almost 10 per cent of the wholesale meat - packing total.

THERE was a 52 per cent increase in businesses operating in the computer service industry in the three years to June 1999, with 14,731 businesses fitting into this category, according to recent Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

Online sales account for just two per cent of the company's business, but Rosen notes that «there's not an hour that goes by in our store without someone showing us our website on their iPhone and asking us where to find something on the floor.»

Economic activity decreased in several categories, including business investment, exports, construction and — most of all — the important resources sector, which sank 2.7 per cent compared to the previous quarter.

The market mostly reacted positively to Crown's latest results on February 22, for which it stressed the recovery in its VIP business in Melbourne and its interim 30 cents dividend is now regular policy after an announcement last year that it will now pay a fixed full - year dividend of 60 cents per share.

Among the Big Six banks, BMO also has the highest proportion of its loan book in business loans, at 49 per cent, according to a February note from CIBC World Markets.

Total, a top player in solar and battery power, has similar ambitions, aiming for low - carbon business to account for 20 per cent of its portfolio by 2035.

Medical Transcription Billing Corp., a healthcare information technology company that provides a fully integrated suite of proprietary web - based solutions, together with related business services, to healthcare providers practicing in ambulatory care settings, went public in July 2014 at $ 5.00 and suffered an immediate downtrend that continued to the April 2017 all - time low at 29 cents.

(In other words, 95 per cent of Canadian businesses would find their competitiveness largely unaffected.)

Switzerland still has business cycles and experienced inflation of nearly 7 per cent in the late 1980s.

As a founding member of the Fair Tax Coalition, The Vancouver Board of Trade played a lead role in achieving a one - per - cent reduction in business property taxes, bringing the total tax reduction to 10.2 per cent.

Small business accounts for 97 per cent of all enterprises in the APEC economies, and 66 per cent of people in the ASEAN region view entrepreneurship as a positive career choice (surpassing the global average of 62.5 %).

The Institute notes that federal public service employment, excluding military and RCMP uniformed personnel and federal government business enterprise employees, has increased by about 35 per cent between 1999 and 2009, (from 224,600 to 302,000), well in excess of overall growth in population of 11 per cent over that period.

Currently, while 99 per cent of Canadian businesses are MSMES, only 12 per cent engage in export activities with only one per cent of those exports going to Asia.

Business investment has been a major driver of growth in recent years, expanding by 18 per cent over the past year, and at an average annual rate of 14 per cent over the past three years.

NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

If these changes go through, there are many scenarios where a typical middle - class, family - run business from which the owners draw a salary of $ 100,000 could see a substantial — 20 to 50 per cent — increase in tax paid.

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

The $ 5 billion Canadian online poker and gambling giant has emerged with an 80 per cent stake of a combined CrownBet and William Hill corporate bookmaking business that will take on Tabcorp and Sportsbet in the heated battle for Australian punters.