Sentences with phrase «cent of businesses back»

Thirty per cent of businesses back legal requirements on human rights due diligence.

Not exact matches

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.

More impressively, Minister Emerson told CEOs that, as long as they were getting back 80 per cent of their money, it was none of their business what would happen to the rest.

Over the last four quarters, that's come down to about 62 per cent, close to the historical average, on the back of business spending on investment and inventories that's already much stronger than usual and will probably slow.

Business investment grew by 2 per cent in the September quarter and by 11 per cent over the year, though the pace of growth eased back from its late 2002 peak of just over 20 per cent (Graph 39).

We continued with the significant and necessary changes we began in the business over three years ago to support our strategy and its priorities, and worked hard to return every possible cent of value back to our farmers,» Wilson said.

By 2013 he had acquired a 90 per cent share in the business (it's now dropped back to 75 per cent) and restored the gravity flow winery to full working order: during the 2017 vintage, Seppeltsfield crushed 12,500 tonnes of grapes.

12 pm: Training and labour hire business Ashley Services delivered a solid performance with a 2.5 per cent increase in net profit after tax to $ 3 million on the back of an 85 per cent increase in revenue to $ 196.1 million.

But in the past few weeks the sector took a fresh round of hits when franchise group Aussie Farmers collapsed, RFG announced an $ 88 million loss and flagged up to 200 franchise - run stores would close, while pizza giant Domino's reported disappointing results on the back of franchisees complaining about a brutal business model, and Caltex announced it was ditching its franchise model days before a damning report was released by the workplace regulator that found 76 per cent of its franchised stores had payroll compliance breaches that included underpaying workers.

The Varkey Foundation report aims to raise awareness of the Business Backs Education campaign — a partnership between the foundation, Dubai Cares and UNSECO that calls on companies to increase their level of education spending to 20 per cent of their CSR budget.

Back in February 2011, iSuppli forecast that Apple's share of the tablet business would fall below 50 per cent in 2013.

Back in December, with the first of those recent investments, Barnes & Noble began exploring strategic steps for the Nook as a separate business, on the back of more stunning Nook sales — up 70 per cent over the previously yBack in December, with the first of those recent investments, Barnes & Noble began exploring strategic steps for the Nook as a separate business, on the back of more stunning Nook sales — up 70 per cent over the previously yback of more stunning Nook sales — up 70 per cent over the previously year.

Looking back over the past twelve months, 55.9 per cent of the sample said that emerging markets had been a positive influence on their business.

It's pretty much the only way we book business travel and my employees love it because instead of using award tickets where they don't earn miles, they can earn miles and I'm getting 2 cents per point in value back when I redeem.

The foundation of the company was prompted by Batterson's 2 cent transaction on March 24, 1864 with a local banker, James E. Bolter, but the actual business only began on April 1, 1864, a month back.

Toronto real estate brokerage TheRedPin.com says it is «set to fix» a «centuries old business model... with a new program that significantly challenges industry norms by shifting 50 per cent of their sales commissions back to consumers.»